by Jacob Swenson-Lengyel | January 25, 2014 | Op-Eds & Letters
Two corporate tax transparency bills, in Chicago and in Springfield, are picking up steam. Illinois Speaker Michael Madigan even chided rich corporations for demanding handouts when they contribute “little or nothing to help fund the very services from which they...
by Jacob Swenson-Lengyel | December 6, 2013 | Op-Eds & Letters
Today, Vice President Joe Biden held a fundraiser for Sen. Durbin’s 2014 re-election campaign. I wasn’t there and most likely you weren’t either. The “cheap seats” cost $2,500, but tickets ran up to $37,600. I have a pretty good idea, though, of who did attend. For...
by Jacob Swenson-Lengyel | October 17, 2013 | Op-Eds & Letters
Recently, the tragic story of Margaret Mary Vojtko, a longtime contingent faculty member at Duquesne University who died after suffering a heart attack, went viral. Although she had taught at Duquesne for 25 years, it was reported that Vojtko died nearly penniless and...