November 29, 2011
Good News on the Budget Frontiers
My native state, Kansas, has so little money that the governor cancelled the state arts program, tried to eliminate all funding for family planning, slashed budgets for judicial support staff–putting […]
READ MORENovember 24, 2011
Happy Thanksgiving
To all friends near and far, new and old. I am grateful for another year with such good friends, grateful for my cousin Barb and her intrepid spirit, serving in […]
READ MORENovember 19, 2011
Why I Write
Publishers Weekly invited me to contribute an essay to their weekly “Why I Write” column. My piece ran on November 18; for those of you who, like me, don’t have […]
READ MORENovember 6, 2011
Testimony Before the City Council
(On Wednesday, November 2, I joined Robert Wislow and Stuart Dybek in presenting testimony to the Chicago City Council in defense of the library system. Since people who weren’t there […]
READ MORENovember 3, 2011
And the winner is…
Many thanks to everyone who took part in the “Name the Flashlight Slogan” contest. The ideas were all unusual and wonderful, and it was hard to choose a winner. We […]
READ MORE