It’s not often that an editorial in the way-too-conservative-for-me Tribune makes me laugh. But the other day they ran one about an elected school board that had me howling.
As the city’s foremost authority on editorials—probably because I’m the only person who reads them—I can assure you that there’s not much difference between the Tribune and the Sun–Times. On local issues.
Like the Tribune did.
Both papers have been more or less sighing with relief since Richard M. Daley was first elected mayor back in 1989, thus ushering in the current era of a Loop-centric, business-friendly mayor who calls the shots. All the shots. All the time.
It comes from the tax increment financing program in which the city raises your property taxes (without telling you it’s raising your property taxes) to compensate for money you think is going to the schools but in fact is getting diverted to the mayor’s TIF bank accounts.
Got to give the Sun-Times and Tribune credit, though. In a brilliant jiujitsu-like maneuver, they took an argument for an elected school board and turned it into one that’s against.
