It’s because the editor is an Aries, right? According to the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, quoted in the Saint Louis Journalism Review and then in the Chicago Journalist (March), “The Tribune is the largest daily in the country that runs a horoscope without a disclaimer.”
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“The public is uninformed about some basic tax facts,” writes Northern Illinois University’s Ellen Dran in Illinois Tax Facts (February). “The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of the Census’ latest statistics ranked Illinois 36th-highest among the 50 states and District of Columbia in…total tax burden per $1,000 of personal income. Illinois’ average was $105.34; the Midwestern states average was $111.90, and the U.S. was $112.66.” But never mind the facts: “In the 1987 Illinois Policy Survey 51 percent of the respondents said that their taxes are higher than in other Midwestern states, and another 25 percent thought they were at least as high.”
“Treating small business preferentially is the same as creating a subsidy for bad jobs,” University of Chicago economist Steven Davis tells Crain’s Small Business (March), dissolving yet another political bromide. His study shows that U.S. manufacturing firms with fewer than 500 employees created only 46 percent of new manufacturing-sector jobs between 1972 and 1988–and the jobs they did create were less stable and less likely to reappear if eliminated.
