Chicago Civic Media Projects
2022 CCM Site: Chicago SAFE Theory & Chicago SAFE Practice: Two Chairs (You're here now)
2020 CHICAGOWRKS (aka ChicagoFIXIT) (Site. Old wine in a new bottle)
2020 Open Letter to managers of Chicago’s Network TV Stations (Blog. We emailed them. No response.)
2020 Thoughts on the Feb 23 Chicago Journalism Town Hall 2020 (Blog. Suggests a "Dear Lori" website)
2019 What Would Daniel Burnham Say If He Could Revisit Chicago Today? (Blog. He'd want a digital infrastructure!)
2019 On Public Safety in Chicago TEN MONTHS AFTER the 2019 Mayoral Election (Here's Chicago FIXIT)
2019 On Public Safety in Chicago: SIX MONTHS AFTER the 2019 Mayoral Election (Here's
2019 On Public Safety in Chicago FIVE MONTHS AFTER the 2019 Mayoral Election (Blog - Here's ChicagoWRKS TV)
2019 On Public Safety ON ELECTION DAY EVE of the 2019 Chicago Mayoral Election (Toni vs Lori)
2019 On Public Safety ON ELECTION DAY of the 2019 Chicago Mayoral Election (Blog. Mired in Violence Reduction)
2019 Violence Reduction: Success or Failure in Chicago? (Blog. We attempt an impartial evaluation)
2017 How Chicago Can Make Itself Safer Than New York (Blog Short) (Blog Long - Pat 1 of 4) (Blog. Chicago can!)
2017 Thanks, President Trump, but Chicago Can Solve Violence on Its Own
2017 Two Political Discourse Systems, Electoral and Issue Centered, for Chicago and the US (Infographic above)
2017 The Plight of Political Discourse in Chicago (Blog. Even the elite have to pay to see what's really going on)
2017 What the US Can Learn about Political Discourse from George Halas and the NFL
2016 For an Issue-Centered, Outcome-Oriented Political Discourse System in America
2016 Chicago: Tipping Point or Turning Point? (Crain's Future of Chicago Conference)
2015 Austin Youth Summit (With THE AUSTIN VOICE)
2015 Parents Political University (With THE AUSTIN VOICE)
2015 Planning Page: For a Chicago Youth Resource Directory
2014 How Daniel Burnham, Redivivus, Inspired the Chicago Tribune’s New Plan of Chicago
2014 Mistrust: the State of Media-Enhanced Civic Discourse in Chicago (Infographic)
2014 “Bottom Up, Top Down, In Between”: Thoughts on the Chicago Tribune’s New Plan of Chicago
2014 Full Story Proposal for Newspaper Coverage of Chicago Violence
2014 Austin Compact: for Sustainable Self-Development in Chicago’s Largest Neighborhood
2014 ACCORD: Austin Comprehensive Community Organizational Resource Directory
2013 On the Chicago Tribune's New Plan of Chicago
2012 Will Chicago Ever Solve or Even Contain Its Gang/Drug/Youth/Gun Violence Problem?
2012 On Mindism: The Pernicious Belief in Stupidity of the Average American
2009 ChicagoWRKS Proposal for Hyperlocal Interactive Citywide News Website
2006 America’s Choice: Proposal for Problem-Solving Reality TV (Blog: Prime Time
2000 Chicago Shutdown Program: Citywide Media-Supported CAPS
1997 West Side Drug Area Shutdown Program (with THE AUSTIN VOICE)
1999 Proposal to WMAQ TV: Chicagoland Youth Focus
1998 Proposal to WMAQ-TV: Chicago Student Minute
1999 u2 Youth/Adult Dialogues
1997 Keepin It Real: Marshall High School Student Newspaper
1995 CPS High School LSC Student Rep School Communications Bill
1994 Thorp Elementary School Journal
1994 CENter Citywide Education News Service (Roosevelt University)
1993 New Media Letter proposing mainstream Youth/Adult dialogue
1992 Chicago Sun-Times Op Ed piece “What Should We Do to Upgrade Schools?”
1992 Proposal for Televised Chicago Town Meeting
1992 Mayor Daley “Chicago Has Lost Two Generations of Young People to Gangs and Drugs”
1989 Proposal for Chicago Education Page
1989 Chicago Sun-Times 20-Page Get Out the Vote Supplement for First CPS LSC Elections
