CAN TV Program Archive

Ken Davis is joined by political consultant Kitty Kurth. They talk about the current national and local political situation, including Russian influence in the presidential election, the rise of populist and white supremacist sentiment in the U.S. and the likelihood that Joe Biden, Hilllary Clinton, Barack Obama and others will begin speaking forcefully against the… View Article

Ken Davis is joined by Bobby Otter, Budget Director for the Center for Tax and Budget Accountability. They discuss the deeply troubling state of finances at Illinois‚Äô public universities. Since 2000, adjusted for inflation, higher education in Illinois has seen its funding reduced by almost 80 percent, and the situation is worse at the universities… View Article

Ken Davis is joined by Stephanie Kollmann, policy director at the Children and Family Justice Center at Northwestern‚Äôs Pritzker School of Law. She discusses recent research by the school revealing that the Chicago Police Department‚Äôs clearance rate for shootings in Chicago has fallen beneath ten percent. She outlines in great detail how Illinois‚Äô existing laws… View Article

Walter J. Podrazik, co-author of Watching TV

Ken Davis is joined by the Reader‚Äôs Maya Dukmasova to discuss her recent profile of attorney Dan Herbert, who represents many police officers. Herbert tells Dukmasova that he doesn‚Äôt believe that policing is institutionally or structurally racist. Although people of color are disproportionately mistreated, and sometimes killed, he says, it‚Äôs because police stand at the… View Article

City Bureau’s Darryl Holliday and Nissa Rhee

With Invisible Institute’s Jamie Kalven

Erin Harkey, Dept. of Cultural Affairs & Special Events, and Jon Pounds, Chicago Public Art Group