***So, the facilities committee now wants to replace Lanphier as well as Springfield High.  Hmmmmm.....How long will it be until Southeast 'needs' to be replaced.  Here's an idea thrown out there by your very own Kelm and Kirk - build one HS campus on the SHS site.  This seems like a slam dunk to us...

***The part-time police officer who arrested the mom in Crestwood last week turns out to be a double-dipping City of Chicago employee with a 'disability'.  This guy sure is a winner!

***This from the Sun-Times editorial:

Obama has not only denounced each statement but today plans to make a major speech about race, politics and the need to come together as a nation. Instead of running from the issue, he's doing damage control and acting like a statesman at the same time.

By making what could be a historic address, Obama is forcing a conversation about the all-important American issue of race. It has been an undercurrent of the campaign for months, recently erupting to the surface. It's time to address it head-on.

Really?  Has The Obama been dealing with race directly during this campaign?  It seems that whenever someone mentions that race is a factor - not racism - but simply, realistically that race is/will be a factor in this contest, The Obama Campaign immediately denounces that person as someone stuck in the old-style of politics; that we need a get beyond race; that The Obama transcends race.  In other words, nobody but The Obama can discuss race in politics except for The Obama.

Today is no exception.

And, yet, the media continues to fawn.  From the Trib: 

With his address in Philadelphia today, the senator from Illinois faces a moment in his campaign as pivotal as the one that John F. Kennedy, the party’s nominee for president in 1960, confronted in explaining his Catholicism to a Baptist audience in Houston. Republican Mitt Romney’s attempt at explaining his independence from the Mormon church last year sounded only a pale echo of that challenge.

From the NYT - an admission that The Obama Campaign has worked to keep race out of the campaign:  “Race is now officially on the table. It’s not going away after this,” a senior aide, speaking on condition of anonymity, recalled one adviser saying.

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