Chock full of errors.

That’s essentially the takeaway from a Chicago Tribune story published Monday that reveals how unreliable Chicago crash data is or at the very least, has been.

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Though Mayor Emanuel’s office has made noise on a frequent basis about remaining transparent, a Chicago Tribune report shows that in respect to some rate hikes and speeding camera tickets,…

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CHICAGO — Joe Scheidler, National Director of the Pro-Life Action League, responded to the Chicago Tribune’s article, "State abortion records full of reporting gaps," which reveals that thousands of abortion complications have gone unreported. The front-page article shows that not…

Trib Breaking News lags behind home-delivery hard copy coverage of last night’s hit & run by SUV driver running red light, sending two female pedestrians, aged 53 and 71, to the hospital. In the Loop! Comments say it: * Mawitz at 9:40 PM Febr…

Tribune covers acorns and fall colors. President Obama got his start with ACORN in Chicago. How about some stories? And where’s the Justice Dept. on this? Are they cowards? Well, we won’t expect anything.
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Chicago famously taught the late Tribune editorial writer Leanita McClain, the first African American to serve in that function at the paper, to hate white people, as she told the nation in the pages of the Washington Post in 1983.
McClain, who had suffered from depression through much of her life, committed suicide a year later.
The 25th anniversary of her death just passed us on May 30th. Here are a few links and comments that appeared around town, followed by excerpts from Gary Rivlin’s indispensable Fire On The Prairie about …

Overwhelming Liberal Imbalance.
In all of Chicago’s so-called “mainline print media”…which is often called the Old Media (for a good reason)… there are only 3-1/2 conservative voices compared to a total of 22 liberal columnists. Does that strike you as diversity? Especially since the generic preference for Congress is 41% Dem and 36% Republican?
And the fact that polls have shown a rightward tack on abortion, Opinion Dynamics supporting pro-life 47-44, Gallup finding Americans supporting pro-life 51-42 (due principally to the growing use of ultra-sound which show parents that there’s a live …

So, here’s my question: Are you angry enough about taxes to go to jail? Are you angry enough about taxes to forfeit some of the federal benefits you might collect, starting with Social Security and including Medicare (if that relates in your case) or any other benefits? Are you angry enough to go stand at the gates of Ft. Bragg and set fire to copies of your taxes to protest federal spending on the military? Are you angry enough to break into an IRS office and spill cow blood on …

The fact that Catholic under the leadership of Francis Cardinal George along with all other Catholic bishops in the state…joining many evangelical Protestant leaders… have defeated  “Reproductive Health & Access Act” [HB 2354], a huge, omnibus pro-abort bill designed to affirm the legislature’s support of Roe v. Wade is a non-event in one-sided liberal coverage Chicago.
The blackout of coverage tells you that there are some issues that are covered…and some that are not.  Those that are not involve pro-life.
More than 5,000 Catholics went to Springfield earlier this year to lobby …

Walking to lunch yesterday, I stopped by Daley Plaza to check out the Official Chicago Tea Party, an event organized on Facebook (remember when Obama was the “Facebook” candidate?) to protest the reckless spending plans hatching regularly in Washington.  Inspired by CNBC’s Rick Santelli memorable plea in opponsition to the mortgage bailout, the Tea Party was a quickly put together group taking their protest to the streets of Chicago.
Tony Peraica announced “Now the Chicago Daily Observer is here, the protest can begin” which generously overstates what little organization we (or …