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Last week M— and I decided to get out of the city for the weekend.

It has now been several bikes since my last post.

A couple of years ago I bought a decrepit fillet-brazed Schwinn Sports Tourer (made in Chicago!)

I spent last weekend in Indianapolis avoiding the Super Bowl.

Somehow I find myself recently the owner of both a Thinkpad x120e and a MacBook Air.

After this last redesign I spent days tearing my hair out over one nasty little alignment issue I couldn’t figure out.

I’ve changed fonts again.

Wilson Miner wrote: Some people might suggest that it’s hardly worth redesigning a site I’ve only posted to twice in the last year.

I was pleased to see that my alderman Mary Ann Smith has set up several blogs for her staff to address issues of interest to her constituents: Action Uptown Action Edgewater ...and, while not a blog per se, it runs on WordPress: Ridge Avenue Livability St…

Tracy Siska at the Chicago Justice Project has another excellent blog post on the need for and lack of transparency in the police and in the courts in Chicago and Cook County.

In December 5 ILCS 140 had a brief moment in the sun when Jay Stewart of the Better Government Association, a BGA lawyer whose name I managed not to catch, and Paul Orfanedes of Judicial Watch testified before the House Special Investigative Committee (th…

While Chicagoans congratulate themselves on having charged Jon Burge with perjury some twenty years on (never mind that it was the Feds who acted after a long line of local DAs — beginning with the guy we've elected mayor six times and counting — failed to

In August, Brian Boyer wrote: If I had to pick the one craziest thing about journalism, it’s this.

I'm just back from the Knight News Challenge meetup downtown — this is the grant program that funds the Chi-Town Daily News, the Knight Foundation Scholarships for programmers at Medill, and EveryBlock.

A few weeks ago CloutWiki started serving up 404 error pages.

Mick Dumke at Clout City directs our attention to the newly-launched CloutWiki, from Mike Fourcher and Jay Paul Deratany.