Steve SewallMar 25, 2020Amplifying Peter Coleman's COVID idea Will the Coronavirus Spur America to Depolarize Its Political Discourse System?Amplifies Peter Coleman's idea that COVID had "the...
Steve SewallFeb 23, 2020Blog Post: Thoughts on Chicago Journalism Town Hall 2020Thoughts on today's Chicago Journalism Town Hall 2020 and on “Dear Lori” as a Way for Chicago's Media to Profitably Connect Chicagoans...
Steve SewallJan 23, 2020An Open Letter to Chicago TVOpen Letter to the General Managers of Seven Chicago TV Stations about the Next Big Thing in Chicago TV A brief pre-COVID attempt to wake...
Steve SewallDec 21, 2019Making Chicago SafeMaking Chicago Safe the New Chicago Way Three reasons - a new mayor, new uses of media and empowered citizenship - why the sea-change...
Steve SewallJul 13, 2019Following a July 11 MacArthur Foundation eventHow Chicago Can Make Itself Safer Than New York.
Steve SewallMar 2, 2019Following the February 29 mayoral primary electionProgressives Lori and Toni Just Missed a Golden Opportunity to End Machine Politics
Steve SewallDec 18, 20182018: FOCUS ON CHICAGO FIXIT AND THE FIXIT CONCEPT Our four-part case for Chicago FIXIT begins with a call for Violence Solution (as opposed to Violence Reduction) How Chicago Can Solve...
Steve SewallDec 12, 2018Guest Column: Glenview Journal & TopicsMaking Democracy Work Again, makes the case for issue-centered FIXIT political discourse as an alternative and corrective to America's...
Steve SewallAug 11, 2018Two new Chicago FIXIT graphics. This one illustrates the FIXIT media universe in Chicago: ... and this one gives an overview of a 32-week season of Chicago FIXIT:
Steve SewallJul 4, 2018Our signature four-part Medium Post introducing Chicago FIXITHow Chicago Can Make Itself Safer than New York
Steve SewallFeb 7, 2018In advance of the February 26 mayoral primaryHow Can Chicago Make Itself Safe in a Digital Age?
Steve SewallJul 30, 2017This is our frequently-updated four minute introduction to Chicago FIXITChicago can solve violence on it's own.
Steve SewallJul 28, 2017Our Pitch to Chicago Google DevelopersChicago is the poster child for urban violence in America. That's the downside. The upside is that Chicago is poised to solve its...
Steve SewallJul 1, 2017Greg Hinz - Crain's Chicago BusinessBroken government in Springfield and Washington is due to a lack of good old-fashioned dealmakers. In response, I argue in this Medium...
Steve SewallJun 13, 2017Set the stage for how America can save its failed bi-partisan, election-centered political discourseThe solution is to supplement this polarizing discourse with issue-centered discourse that de-polarizes politics by making citizens and...
Steve SewallMar 22, 2017Chicago Can Solve ViolenceHow can Chicago solve violence? Think Chicago FIXIT: rule-governed, voter-driven prime time reality TV enhanced by other Chicago media.
Steve SewallNov 8, 2016Non-Partisan, Issue-Centered, Outcome-Oriented This election-eve piece bypassed the question of who would win the election in order to raise and answer a larger and, I think, more...
Steve SewallJun 14, 2016Chicago: Tipping Point or Turning Point?Set in year 2026, this 600-word future history shows how a new kind of political media enabled Chicago, Illinois and the United States to...
Steve SewallSep 2, 2015Two questions for Stephen Goldsmith At a Chicago City Data User Group meeting. Scroll down. Prof. Goldsmith is the author of Beyond Transparency: Open Data and the Future of...
Steve SewallAug 24, 20157 StepsIn Seven Steps: How Bruce Rauner Ended the War for Illinois and Turned Illinois Around An imaginary "Future History" showing how a...
Steve SewallJun 8, 2015Outline of proposal for a yearlong AUSTIN YOUTH SUMMITA yearlong series of monthly "AUSTIN WORKING TOGETHER" televised town hall meetingsdesigned to reduce youth violence and improve...