Deficit problems, Silicon Valley entrepreneurship, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, among other things.
Posts by Joel Gillespie:
U of I campus to become smoke-free next year
From the U of I News Bureau: The Urbana campus of the University of Illinois will become smoke free late next year, Urbana Chancellor Phyllis Wise said Wednesday. The smoke-free campus, which will be instituted …
Making god a liar
Portland, Oregon's Blitzen Trapper headlines the latest entry in the Smile Politely Show Series, Thursday at Highdive.
Listen Up: Oct. 15 – 21
Banned books, voting along ethnic lines, African-American leftists, US/EU relations, and much more this week.
Listen Up: Oct. 8 – 14
Minority politics, small-town economics, women's health justice, and more on campus and in town this week.
Listen Up: Oct. 1–7
Tightrope walkers, Chinese fiction, and more this week.
Jimmy John’s moving out of state in 2013
From Chicago Business Journal: Jimmy John Liautaud is moving part of the sandwich chain that bears his name to Florida next year, making good on a threat issued in 2011 after Illinois hiked its corporate …
Local news headlines for Tuesday, September 25
“Big Development Leaves a Gap in Champaign-Urbana” (WILL) “Champaign school board OKs surplus budget” (N-G) “Possible Champaign Central High Sites Expanded to Ten” (WILL) “Will downtown Rantoul vanish? Not if developers have their way” (N-G) …
Listen Up: Sept. 24–30
Irrational decisions, questions on honest brokerage of peace, and Egyptian irrigation, all this week.
A posthumous lesson in How to Vote
Max Winchester has a new book coming out called How to Vote; unfortunately, he died last year. Fortunately, an interview survives.