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CTA Homeless Harassment Update
(Photo: The Chicago Transit Authority’s holiday train––no room for the homeless? Credit: morydd.) No, the Chicago Transit Authority has not yet budged from its thinly veiled discriminatory policy of...
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Chicago Coalition for the Homeless to Monitor CTA!
(Photo: Never underestimate the power of compassionate thinking.) Yesterday, the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless announced on its blog that the organization will “track any efforts to crack down on...
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Mike Doyle on Outside the Loop Radio
(Photo: Hear ye, hear me.) Today, interested readers can listen to my interview about the Chicago Transit Authority’s ill-considered holiday crackdown on homeless ‘L’ riders on WLUW 88.7-FM‘s...
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Chicago Public Radio, Cliff Kelley Show Cover CTA Homeless Crackdown
(Photo: Next time, I’ll take a taxi.) UPDATE 9:45am: Ed Shurna, Executive Director of the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, is quoted today in the Chi-Town Daily News: “They should take those signs...
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CTA to Eject Rush-Hour Riders?
(Photo: And the social-justice beat goes on…) The following is cross-posted on my Huffington Post Chicago byline. [UPDATE: Welcome once again to my visitors from Rich Miller's Capitol Fax Blog!]...
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Chicago Sun-Times Examines CTA Homeless Harassment
(Photo: Fairness is in the eye of the beholder.) Lest regular readers think CHICAGO CARLESS has become all CTA-homeless-controversy all the time, I aim for the blog to have a more diverse drum beat...
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Snowy CTA Night with Coalition for the Homeless
(Photo: Brr, it’s been cold out there.) Earlier this month, I blogged at length about a new Chicago Transit Authority initiative to roust homeless riders from late-night ‘L’ trains during frigid...
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