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Tim doesn’t have the avuncular nature that Harold had, plus, he had come in with the machine. Over several months time, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that Evans’s concerns were my concerns: recycling as a solution to the city’s garbage problem, better schools (and a sound plan to achieve true reform), improved public health via better education, and a plan for economic development that favors real workers, not developers.
It’s disconcerting that the daily (make that “Daley”) press is so biased. They report that Daley says he wants to talk about the issues, but though I’ve heard him laugh a lot, he never seems to discuss specifics. Yet I’ve found that you can rarely catch Tim off guard. I guess I shouldn’t expect the news media, run overwhelmingly by white males, to listen to an articulate nonwhite who threatens the “old boy” network. Workers rarely buy display ads–developers do. Being a white woman, I’ve seen evidence of this for years, but I’ve also learned that people working together can make a difference.
