Posted 5:30 PM by Gene

We may wonder why anyone would bother subscribing to The Econowiz at $500 per annum (or whatever it is) when it calls the increasingly festering Mayor Daley "hugely successful." I suppose hugely successful is defined as not posing with John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd. It may also be defined by having built such monuments to civic vanity as the Millennium Park and Spaceship, er, Soldier Field. Success isn't measured by losing jobs and corporate headquarters like Sears's. No, we suspect his "success" as measured by a VERY CW publication is EDDIE's, who made Philly feel good as the city got it bad.

But we forget, all those CEOs don't READ The Econowiz, they boast of it and Bill Gates and themselves in the same breath, while whapping their underlings with it.

P. S. I now discover The Chicago Ebert ran a FIVE-PART SERIES on its FAVORITE MOVIE, which means here's another town deserving ONE NEWSPAPER -- if THAT many.