A microsurvey of Great Lakes microbreweries. Best Name: Burning River Ale (Cleveland), named for the once-flammable Cuyahoga River. Best Label: Kalamazoo’s Third Coast Beer, with 20 different segments of the state’s Great Lakes coastline (collect all 20!). Best Taste, according to Noah Eiger in the Great Lakes Reporter (May-June): Legacy Lager (Chicago) and Eisbock (Niagara Falls, Ontario).
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“Since the white-owned media has displayed very little interest in showcasing the serious allegations of police torture, most white Chicagoans are unaware of the issue and how their city is being internationally tarnished,” writes Salim Muwakkil in In These Times (July 10-23). Jennifer Modell of the Task Force to Confront Police Violence “says that while she thought the Amnesty [International] report would attract media attention to the issue, she now realizes she underestimated the power of the administration of Richard M. Daley to keep the lid on. Daley was serving as the Cook County state’s attorney when substantial evidence was uncovered that [Jon] Burge and his detectives tortured criminal suspects–evidence he refused to investigate.”
Why affordable housing is bad for you, according to Peter F. Colwell and Joseph W. Trefzger in ORER Letter, published by the University of Illinois’ Office of Real Estate Research (Spring): “Far from reflecting social problems, higher housing prices are among the most effective signals in redirecting human migration. For example, California is seen as a very desirable place to live; the economy is stable and diversified, and the natural and man-made environments are attractive. If subsidies held prices in check, even more people would try to move to our most populous state (and fewer young Californians would move to less congested areas).”
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Carl Kock.
