Hello friends and readers, as you may or may not know, I have been working for the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners training college students to serve as Polling Place Administrators (PPAs) on election day. The city of Chicago obtained new touchscreen voting machines by mandate from the passage of HAVA (Help America Vote [...]

This is something I wrote for a friend’s ill-fated music blog Freshly Baked Bread awhile back… the site never took hold, so I never continued with my efforts to make more breads. Oh well…
DISCLAIMER: This is not about music. Not really anyway. This might seem like the wrong outlet for a column about bread. [...]

Tomorrow is Nov. 7th, and we all know that Nov. 7th = voting day! So don’t forget to get out and re-elect or elect your favourite candidate in whatever city or state you are currently registered in. IF you.registered_status = false THEN shame on you. ELSE IF you.registered_status = true AND you.vote = [...]

A new feature on NPR.org debuted today: Five For Friday. It will serve as a preview of many new things deserving of some attention in the world of books, DVDs, video games, movies, music and so on and on. While not as review-ish as other outlets, it’s a quick read of things [...]