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[the urban politician]

Originally Posted by SIGSEGV

It's about the stories that the Tribune chooses to emphasize, which are overwhelmingly anti-transit, anti-bike and scaremongering. Did the Tribune even bother running this story, for example: https://chicago.suntimes.com/educati...e-college-prep

No, it’s the Tribune’s job to report the news and not cater to highly biased and narrow segments of the population. Remember when newspapers were like that? Ahh.. breath of fresh air. That is how a newspaper for the broad public differs from a forum full of like minded people who have identical views on transit and urbanism. It’s nice to read various viewpoints, in my opinion.

By the way, arguably there is still an exodus from Illinois. I mean, was it really disingenuous for the Tribune to post that op-Ed? Really? Like, we are one of 3 States to lose population, and the state lost population for the first time in its history. New York friggin gained well over 800,000 people! Something is still very wrong here. Any good newspaper won’t pretend that all is dandy and try to explore what the hell is going on. Even JB acknowledges that the census data was not good news.