Chicago Mayor Richard Daley seems less than keen on the idea of a "gay high school."
Daley is a Democrat. Can you imagine the outrage, the spittle-chinned protesters, the hate mail and vitriolic speeches aimed at him if he was Republican?
Two items about the still undecided fate of the "pride campus" come to us this week from the
Chicago Journal's Booster newspaper. (By the way, when can we expect a proposal for the city's first all-hetero high school? Perhaps the
City Clowncil and the
Chicago Pubic Schools can consider schools that are exclusively for students who have sweaty palms, are height challenged, the especially stupid, the morbidly obese, homely red headed step children, and so on. Seriously, don't
those kids also deserve their own "pride campus," a refuge from all the mean kids who are not just like them?)
Mayor Daley against Pride Campus
CHICAGO JOURNAL/BOOSTER
Mayor Daley today expressed misgivings about a proposal before the Chicago Board of Education that would establish the city's first high school for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students and their allies....
Pride Campus vote postponed
CHICAGO JOURNAL/BOOSTER
Advocates of the proposed Pride Campus will have to wait another month to hear whether the school is approved. Jaime Guzman, a spokesperson for Chicago Public Schools, says the proposal for the controversial school for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered students and their allies hasn't run into trouble but is instead caught in a backup of school proposals for the Chicago Board of Education....
Local police fatally shot a 15 year boy. That is tragic. Students are fighting police, resulting in Greece's worst rioting in years. Stores are burning. Homes are damaged. People are injured. Will the 
violence and destruction bring the dead boy back to life, and what did the innocent victims of the rioting have to do with the police action?
ATHENS (Reuters) - Thousands of youths rampaged through Athens and the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki on Sunday, burning dozens of shops and vehicles in a second day of rioting after police shot dead a 15-year-old boy. Greece's worst protests in years erupted in the capital late on Saturday after the shooting of the teenager, and quickly spread to Thessaloniki and the tourist islands of Crete and Corfu. Full Story from Reuters...
The Baltische Rundschau reports that last night "two policemen were arrested over the killing. The officer who fired that fatal shot was charged with manslaughter, and his colleague with being an accessory." Additionally...
Riots rocked Athens and other university towns across Greece yesterday after a teenager was shot dead in a midnight confrontation with police in an inner-city district frequented by extremist youths. As news of the shooting spread hundreds of hooded and helmeted protesters poured into three central districts in Athens, hurling petrol bombs and stones at shopfronts, banks, parked cars and squads of police trying to control the mayhem. Twenty-four policemen were injured. Patrons in bars in the popular Monastiraki district fled as the youths, chanting “Death to the pigs”, set fire to doorways and gutted at least one office building. Looters emptied the shop windows. Full Article...
The Mail Online has a good report and photos.
