The state of Georgia put Troy Davis to death last week.

There is very little argument about the need for Chicago Public Schools students to have more classroom time, better classroom time or even more recess time. The amount of time our students spend in a classroom, getting instruction, is an embarrassment, and it should have been addressed years ago.

Ten Septembers have come and gone since that awful morning. But on this 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, we are summoned once more to honor those we lost by keeping our country strong and true to their memory.

Due to inclement weather, at an undetermined future date, a monument to perhaps the most well-respected African American ever, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is being dedicated on the National Mall.

One thing that was supposed to be clear was that the one issue everyone should be focused on in this post-recession economy is jobs.

He wasn’t even supposed to be the headliner that day. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was just one of the speakers on August 28, 1963. The well-known names, like A. Philip Randolph of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Whitney Young of the National Urban League and Roy Wilkins of the NAACP, had called for this March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, and an estimated 250,000 showed up, the largest demonstration ever in the nation’s capital.

I am writing to express my deep displeasure at your choice for Grand Marshal for the 2011 parade. I’m quite sure you don’t care, as you had to consider the choice would be criticized by some, but I am extremely surprised at your callousness and utter disregard for the message that it sends to our children.

For more than 30 years, officials of the city of Chicago have stood in the way of justice regarding Jon Burge.

It is with great sadness that we must introduce the “race-card” into the present debate about the American economy, presidential leadership and the direction of the country. But the reality is the facts lead us to no other conclusion.

In the political mess that unfolded in Washington, D.C. over the past few weeks regarding deficit reduction and debt ceiling, all the American public got to witness was some really mangy dogs.