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Chicago Newsroom
March 1, 2018
Ken Davis talks about the status of Chicago‚Äôs thousands of DACA recipients with three activists in Chicago‚Äôs immigrant rights community: Ruth Lopez-McCarthy (National Immigrant Justice Center), Laura Mendoza (Resurrection Project) and Fred Tsao (Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights). They discuss the ways in which the program grew to encompass more than 800,000 people… View Article
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Chicago Newsroom
February 22, 2018
Ken Davis is joined by three veteran Chicago reporters: WBEZ‚Äôs Sarah Karp, Chicago Public Square‚Äôs Charlie Meyerson and NPR‚Äôs David Schaper. They discuss the surprising degree of youth activism that‚Äôs sprung up in Florida following the mass shooting there and the effect it‚Äôs having on American politics. They also discuss the recent change of administration… View Article
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Chicago Newsroom
February 15, 2018
Ken Davis is joined by Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza. They discuss her reaction to Governor Rauner‚Äôs budget address yesterday. She says she believes the proposed budget is more than 1.5 billion out of balance, and that the Governor‚Äôs proposal to shift about a billion dollars in pension costs to the local school districts, which she… View Article
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Chicago Newsroom
February 8, 2018
Ken Davis is joined by transit consultant and Chicago Reader columnist Ed Zotti, to discuss a range of issues facing Chicago‚Äôs transit systems. Ridership is falling, and it‚Äôs thought that ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft may be cutting into the system‚Äôs customer base. But significant improvements are being made to both the rail… View Article
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Chicago Newsroom
February 8, 2018
Ken Davis is joined by the Daily Line‚Äôs A.D. Quig, who explained the complicated battle over ballot petition legitimacy that‚Äôs roiling the Assessor‚Äôs race in the upcoming primary. She also discusses the decades-long effort to bring certain Cook County offices‚Äô IT systems up to date, especially those in the Clerk of the Circuit Court‚Äôs office,… View Article
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Chicago Newsroom
February 1, 2018
Ken Davis is joined by Chicago Tribune columnist Robert Reed. They discuss the future of retailing in Chicago, the upsides and downsides of an Amazon HQ in our city, Net Neutrailty, the rollout of 5-G internet, ridership erosion on the CTA, modernization challenges for McDonald‚Äôs and how Walgreen‚Äôs will combat Amazon‚Äôs logistics dominance. This program… View Article
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Chicago Newsroom
January 25, 2018
Ken Davis is joined by the Illinois Solar Energy Association‚Äôs Lisa Albrecht, who discusses the impact of President Trump‚Äôs 30% tariff on solar panels manufactured in China and certain other countries. Solar is now a $9 billion industry employing over 300,000 Americans, but only a few thousand are in the manufacturing sector. Critics have charged… View Article
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Chicago Newsroom
January 19, 2018
Ken Davis is joined by Stacy Davis Gates, the Chicago Teachers Union‚Äôs political director. They discuss the Union‚Äôs assertion that moves by the Chicago Public Schools to close four Englewood high schools is a violation of their contract. Davis also talks about the need for an elected representative school board and an end to mayoral… View Article
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Chicago Newsroom
January 18, 2018
Craig Newman is joined by ProPublica Illinois’ Editor in Chief Louise Kiernan and reporter Jason Grotto. They discuss being the first regional publishing operation of ProPublica and their reporting around Cook County Assessor Joe Berrios. This program was produced by Chicago Access Network Television (CAN TV).
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Chicago Newsroom
January 18, 2018
Craig Newman is joined by Lauren FitzPatrick of the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Reporter’s Kalyn Belsha to discuss the state of education in Chicago and the future of CPS under new CEO Janice Jackson. Kalyn also discusses her reporting on the drastically changing dynamic at CPS as thousands of African American students leave the system…. View Article
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