Bouquet of thoughts for Spike Lee's Chiraq

What the USA Can Learn about Political Discourse from MLB and the NFL (and Bill Veeck, George Halas and Research at Facebook) Nearly 100...

User-friendly serviceable Youth Resource directory for all 77 Chicago neighborhoods. Of enormous value to Chicagoans in its own right,...

Steve Sewall is invited by 8th District State Representative La Shawn K. Ford as hisMedia and Community Advisor

For presentation at the next meeting of the Illinois Violence Prevention Task Force (VPTF): "Full Story" proposal for the creation of a...

3800 word article "Chicago Flashback: How Daniel Burnham, redivivus, inspired the Chicago Tribune's New Plan of Chicago." 12 page print...

Calls for an a new, citizen-participatory approach to Chicago's gang/drug problem fueled by a Daniel Burnham-scale transformation of...

The Flyer below is for the half-day conference of the Parents Political University in Austin

Illinois State Representative La Shawn K Ford, and other Austin leaders in creating and building the Parents Political University (PPU)...

Running commentary on the state of Chicago media and Chicago civic discourse is at Chicago Civic Media.com. Recent emphasis is on the...

CCM creates Table #16 at Billy Goat's tavern in the Look as part of the Chicago Community Trust's "On The Table" event inviting 10,000...

"The Tribune and the Sun-Times Reach out to Chicagoans: A Seismic Shift for Chicago’s Future?" rejected by the Chicago Tribune and...

Thoughts on the Chicago Tribune’s “New Plan of Chicago”, a 4,000 word article arguing that youth violence in Chicago has always, and...

"The Chicago Tribune's New Plan of Chicago: What Would Daniel Burnham Say?"

"Solving Youth Violence. Building Chicagoland: Two Cricial Roles for Chicago's Media" Instructor of English, Oakton Community College...

Weathering the Storm is a blog of 54 extensive posts (and zero followers) that I maintained from 2009-2012. Since 2005 I had been working...

"Will Chicago Contain or Solve Its Gang/Drug Problem?"

Quoted by Chicago Tribune Columnist Dennis Byrne in his Barbershop blog entry

Goodreads review of Bobby and J. Edgar by Burton Hersh Author Burton Hersh in his blog writes about our email exchange on the role of...

Advances the idea of the complementary interactive People and Star Systems targeting the Market of the Whole of all members of any size...

Blog The New Vulgate refers to Chicago Reader 40th Anniversary post and quotes from "Inside the Challenge, 1972" by Steve Sewall &...

"Future History of the Future Media Conference" Critique of the less than visionary concerns of this event were written prior to the...

A blog about the Global Financial Meltdown ("The Great Recession") and its aftermath. Maintained until Sep, 2012. May Daily Kos article,...