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The Chicago Transit Authority held two public open house meetings, one in Evanston, and one in Edgewater at the Broadway Armory this past Tuesday evening, to update the public on plans to rehabilitate and reconstruct the north branch of the Red Line and the Purple Line. There are four alternatives under discussion: Reconstruction and consolidation of some stations; reconstruction without consolidation; minimal rehabilitation; and no rehabilitation, with only minimal repairs. Reconstruction... Read Full Story

T.E.A. Conference 4 - May 31, 2012 The Thorium Energy Alliance is a 501(c)3 Corporation. All tax documentation can be made upon request. More information on the conference location and schedule can be found below. PayPal - the safer, easier way to pay online! PayPal - the safer, easier way to pay online! Read Full Story

The CTA is conducting two public meetings to discuss the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the Red Line, and possible closure of some stations. There will be a meeting in Evanston on Monday evening, February 6, at the Evanston Public Library on Orrington Ave, and in Edgewater at the Broadway Armory, 5917 N Broadway, on Tuesday evening, February 7th. Read Full Story

The eagerly anticipated Pillars Social Cafe has at last opened up in the vast corner commercial space in the 1200 W. Pratt building, at Pratt and Sheridan, and this formerly moribund corner now has two attractive alternatives to the corporate Starbucks down the block. The glossy,stylish cafe has a full compliment of coffee house fare, including hot and cold sandwiches, salads, soups, and pastries. Prices range from $7 to $9 for most menu items, and $2 to $4 for most pastries, with a less... Read Full Story

 Many people have noticed that the Rogers Park blogging scene has grown strangely quiescent lately. This is the first time I've written a post of any length since January, and a couple of other Rogers Park bloggers seemed to have fled the scene completely, notably Craig Gernhart, who has taken his blog private. Others are posting far less often, and most strangely of all, none of us wrote much about the municipal election this February, even though this election was the most noteworthy in... Read Full Story

Strange to return to blogging with this entry, but a deeply disgruntled tenant of the Morgan who read  my previous post on the opening of the Morgan at Loyola Station, posted nearly two years ago on May 20, 2009, left an angry comment there today. Here it is: I have lived in the Morgan at Loyola Station and HATE IT! And I am not surprised either that the building is half empty. I would call this place more of a dorm than an apartment building. They over regulate everything you do. The door... Read Full Story

A particularly vicious meme is being disseminated by ostensibly respectable publications such as Business Insider and Psychology Today , and echoed by a few misguided proponents of decriminalization of drugs, which is that users of illegal street drugs are smarter than the rest of us. Huh?? Anybody who has ever had to interact with a habitual drug user on a daily basis will be pretty skeptical of the laughable  "findings" of a study whose methodology and veracity are questionable at best; and... Read Full Story

JANUARY 19, 2011, 7:00 PM  UNITED CHURCH OF ROGERS PARK 1545 W. MORSE AVE. Free parking at the southwest corner of Morse & Ashland Suggested Donation: $20 (no one will be turned away) Many, many thanks to Christine Wellman , Pam and Lan Richart and the other great people of Transition Rogers Park, The Eco-Justice Collaborative , Midwest Permaculture, and many others for their efforts in bringing the eminent energy and financial analyst Nicole Foss to speak in Rogers Park. Foss, who writes... Read Full Story

What if your house caught fire and the CFD did not respond? Because, maybe, they didn't respond because nobody was at work. And they weren't at work because they didn't get their last paychecks.  Or, maybe, the city couldn't pay the fuel bill for the fire trucks and other emergency vehicles, and was out of fuel. Most Chicagoans can't even imagine it. Most of this city's denizens can't imagine a city where the street lights are off on most streets on alternating nights because the city is... Read Full Story

This first novel by founding member of the Association of Peak Oil (ASPO ) and prominent science writer Kurt Cobb, whose commentaries on the depletion of resources appear frequently in S-Citizen magazine and is author of Resource Insights blog, was written with the stated purpose of informing the unaware public of the danger presented by the peak of global fuels. In Prelude , Cobb manages to give the reader new to the concept of Peak Oil a good survey course in the essentials of oil... Read Full Story