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As the NFL season came to a close this past Sunday, the annual armchair analysis of SuperBowl ads has begun. As an avid NFL fan, I like to salute those ad campaigns that have stood the test of time for the whole season. My top honors for advertising campaigns goes to Budweiser beer. (Disclosure: I…

Even though it is the middle of January, I still find myself asking people about their Christmas and wishing people a happy new year. I feel somewhat justified as the Catholic church just ended the Ecclesiastical Christmas season this past week with Three Kings day and the baptism of Jesus. Glossed over in the joy…

This month I am sharing a grant proposal I submitted to the Chase Mission Main Street program. If successful, we will develop a degree completion program for inner-city community college graduates to get certified to teach in their neighborhood schools. This program addresses a number of ideas that I have been discussing in my blog:…

The conflict over passing a budget for the federal government centers around how we as a society should ensure that all citizens have health insurance. The current Affordable Care Act takes a three-pronged approach. (1) Healthy people will pay more in insurance so that high risk people can pay less insurance. (2) There are government…

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”  Declaration of Independence In the context of heated conflict about specific strategies for implementing the principle of equality for all,…

Rahm Emanuel is about to unleash the greatest carnage on public schools in our nation’s history. Both the Chicago Public Schools’ school board that he appointed and the CEO that he appointed have reviewed all of the data, listened to public comment, and determined that the trauma of closing 50 schools and displacing 30,000 students will be…