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Category Archives: Economics
College Graduates and Employment Prospects
As thousands of college students graduate this month, including our students here at Roosevelt, many are concerned how they will fare in the current job market. And that market continues to be challenging as we slowly recover from the Great … Continue reading
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A Personal Note to Midwest Generation
Dear Midwest Generation: I admit it. For a long time I’ve assumed that you were nothing but a bureaucratic, ethics-challenged, profit-obsessed energy company. But your recent pleas to the Illinois Pollution Control Board for sympathy and understanding regarding your supposedly … Continue reading
Junior’s Fall from Grace: More Bad News for Peotone
You’d think that Jessie Jackson Jr.’s stunning fall from political grace last week would have opponents of the Great Imaginary Airport in Peotone doing cartwheels of joy out in the cold autumnal winds of eastern Will County. After all, the … Continue reading
Equitable Education = a Strong Economy
The recent Chicago Teacher’s Union strike has exposed a long list of contentious issues in our K-12 educational system. The most troubling of these is the glaring inequity among our region’s public schools. Nowhere is this more evident that in … Continue reading
Labor-Managment Conflict in Blue-Collar America: The Caterpillar Strike in Joliet
Without Caterpillar Corporation, I probably wouldn’t exist. Once upon a time, a Kansas farm boy (my grandfather) moved to central Illinois with some of his brothers to find work. He eventually caught on at Caterpillar in Peoria, where he became … Continue reading
Bulldozing the Rights of the People: That’s the Illiana Way
Remember the Prairie Parkway? Just a few years ago, it was the Big New Road Project of choice in northeastern Illinois. A monumentally dumb idea for a whole host of reasons, the Prairie Parkway fortunately fizzled after the recession of … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Economics, Joliet, Land use, Peotone, Politics, Social justice, Transportation
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The Airport Nobody Wants or Needs
The Saturday before Earth Day, Jesse Jackson, Jr. and a contingent of political supporters rode down to the farmlands of eastern Will County to spade up a little dirt in a pious promotion of the ill-fated Great Imaginary (aka Peotone) … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Economics, Joliet, Land use, Peotone, Social justice, Transportation
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Speak Your Mind on RU’s New Website
Roosevelt has just launched a new media campaign called “Speak Your Mind” that features a highly interactive “microsite” that’s really more like an online discussion course than a typical media ad. In fact, it’s better than a regular course, because … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Green jobs, Roosevelt, Sustainability
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The Peotone Airport’s Ongoing Tragicomedy
Thank goodness for the intransigence and political buffoonery of our Illinois public officials. Without their ceaseless bickering, the ill-fated and monumentally stupid Great Imaginary Airport project envisioned near Peotone might actually get off the ground. As it is, the GIA … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Economics, Land use, Peotone, Politics, Social justice, Transportation
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The Airport that Just Won’t Die
Like a cold sore or a nasty case of bronchitis, the Great Imaginary Airport near Peotone just won’t go away. Not even with a prescription. After many months of keeping a low profile, the Illinois Department of Transportation made a … Continue reading
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