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    January 11, 2018
    Ken Davis is joined by The South Side Weekly‚Äôs Michael Wasney, to discuss his recent article about the rapid adoption of high-tech policing in Chicago. Specifically, Wasney talks about ShotSpotter, a network of hundreds of pole-mounted microphones that listen for the sound of gunshots, then refer the co-ordinates through special cell-phones to police cars. The… View Article
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    January 4, 2018
    Ken Davis is joined by the Tribune‚Äôs City Hall reporter Hal Dardick and the BGA‚Äôs Madeleine Doubek, who‚Äôs their Director of Civic Engagement. It‚Äôs a conversation about the current status of politics and policy as 2018 comes on-line. The panel discusses Chris Kennedy‚Äôs claim that Rahm Emanuel has a strategic gentrification plan to empty Chicago… View Article
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    December 21, 2017
    Ken Davis is joined by Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin, who led the fight against the County‚Äôs pop tax. Boykin says that President Toni Preckwinkle doesn‚Äôt like me and has arranged for a challenger to take him on in the 2018 election. He says that the fact that the Board was able to replace the… View Article
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    Chicago Newsroom

    December 14, 2017
    Ken Davis is joined by media strategist Sylvia Ewing and political consultant Kitty Kurth to discuss the aftermath of the Alabama Senatorial election, the ascension of the #MeToo movement, the Al Franken resignation and local political issues. This program was produced by Chicago Access Network Television (CAN TV).
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    December 14, 2017
    Ken Davis is joined by the Chicago Tribune‚Äôs Juan Perez, Jr. to discuss their recent series on Chicago‚Äôs shrinking high schools. They identified 17 designated neighborhood high schools whose populations have shrunk significantly in the last five years and whose very existence is now in question. In the case of Gage Park High School, for… View Article
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    December 7, 2017
    Ken Davis is joined by City of Chicago Inspector General Joe Ferguson to discuss the current round of collective bargaining agreement negotiations involving 90% of Chicago‚Äôs work force. They also discuss his sense that technology and greater professionalization of management has resulted in a significant reduction in street-level corruption among the work force. They also… View Article
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    Chicago Newsroom

    November 9, 2017
    Ken Davis is joined by the co-founders of City Bureau. It‚Äôs a non-profit news organization that strives to train members of minority communities in Chicago as news reporters and trackers who attend all manner of public meetings to document the official proceedings with written reports and live tweets. They discuss the demise last week of… View Article
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    Chicago Newsroom

    November 9, 2017
    Ken Davis is joined by The Chicago Tribune‚Äôs Jeremy Gorner to discuss the recent release of the City of Chicago‚Äôs Gun Trace Report. The report follows about 21,000 guns confiscated by the Chicago Police in the past three years and traces them back to their first owners and the stores or dealers from which they… View Article
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    Chicago Newsroom

    November 2, 2017
    Ken Davis is joined by Jessica Droeger and Jeff Radue, both organizers with Indivisible Chicago. They discuss their efforts to disengage Illinois from CrossCheck, a national program that compares voter rolls from multiple states to root out voter fraud, but has been shown to be a significant threat to data security and personal privacy. They… View Article
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