“The computer is a tool–just like a lens, light source, or film emulsion–that you select for its effect on the final image,” says John DeSalvo in Loupe (Spring), published by ASMP Chicago/Midwest. “I use image manipulation very cautiously….It’s important that digital image manipulation is not considered an electronic gimmick, a passing fad, or a Band-aid for bad ideas”–all things that photography itself was once considered to be.
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“Employers were not happy” when reform-minded Teamsters president Ron Carey removed corrupt leadership from Chicago Teamsters Local 705, writes David Moberg in In These Times (May 15). New local president Gerald Zero, a reformer, lunched at an Italian restaurant with one distraught business owner who said, “I always got along with [former local secretary-treasurer] Danny [Ligurotis]. We didn’t have any problems. We didn’t need a steward. What do you need? A car? Money? Women?” Zero says he replied, “Just take care of the members and I’ll be happy,” paid his share of the check, and left.
TB cases in Chicago, as reported to the city department of public health: in 1982, 1050; in 1985, 649; in 1993, 798 (AIDS Chicago, First Quarter).
Things Republicans don’t want to know, from a random-sample poll by the Metro Chicago Information Center on South Michigan: “52% of adults in the Chicago region feel that O’Hare airport should add a runway to ease air traffic congestion. Only 34% disagree, and 15% report no opinion on the issue.” Even in suburban Cook and Du Page counties, MCIC found opinion was pro-expansion by 47 to 39 percent.
