Eight Forty-Eight 8/27/2008

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We check in with Chicago Public Radio political reporter Ben Calhoun at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. We go back to the Democratic National Convention of 1944, when FDR fought a battle for the presidential nomination. Public policy lecturer Charlie Wheelan and the Heartland Alliance’s Amy Rynell joins us to discuss the latest census figures on poverty and the prominence of the issue in this election year. We investigate the success rate of a city-run summer jobs program. Plus, Richard Steele talks with the author of a Chicago Magazine article that compares Mayor Richard M. Daley with his father.


Ben Calhoun's Update from Denver DNC

We check in with Chicago Public Radio political reporter Ben Calhoun at the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
Remembering Another DNC-1944

John McDonough takes us back to the Democratic National Convention of 1944, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt fought a battle for the presidential nomination.
Dueling Critics: Weekend

Jonathan Abarbanel and Kelly Kleiman review Gore Vidal’s Weekend, the latest production at Timeline Theater Company.
The Politics of Poverty

Public policy lecturer Charlie Wheelan and the Heartland Alliance’s Amy Rynell joins us to discuss the latest census figures on poverty and the prominence of the issue in this election year.
Private Sector Largely Missing from Chicago's Summer Job Program

We investigate the success rate of a city-run summer job program.
Like Mayor, Like Son?

Richard Steele talks with David Bernstein, author of a Chicago Magazine article that compares Mayor Richard M. Daley with his father.

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