This 4th of July I celebrated my 25th year in the US. I came here as a grad student hailing from the North with a Quebec accent that somehow I have not lost. Every year, I love riding my bike through the closed streets for block parties, seeing the chairs lined up on...
Kate Thayer’s article “State to Ditch PARCC” appeared on the front page of the Chicago Tribune yesterday. There was not one mention of the amount money spent by the state, the district, the individual schools on PARCC testing...
I started the week watching a video on the Descent of Venezuela. Sixteen years ago, Venezuela was the breadbasket of South America. A country that is as oil rich as Saudi Arabia, yet today my friend Emilio has to mail boxes of food to his mother who stayed there. She...
Kristi Noem, congresswoman from South Dakota, was in Chicago last week. She took the time to have a coffee with more than 20 women from the Chicagoland Policy Circles. Here are some of the insights she shared. “Borrowing to pay the Death Tax got me in politics”...
It was 3 years ago already, that we started the Rose Friedman Society which now has over 75 members. The Rose Friedman Society (RFS) was the seed from which sprouted the idea to launch The Policy Circle and start circles all over the...
