 The free ride is over for most older area transit riders.Today, some 336,000 senior citizens who will start using new reduced-fare permits on the CTA, Metra and Pace.  | Obama yields to GOP, moves jobs speech President Obama will address a joint session of Congress on Sept. 8 instead of Sept. 7 to unveil proposals to create new jobs, bowing to objections from Republicans and Speaker Boehner. |  | Whose bubbles will burst Thursday? It doesn't happen very often, but every once in a while a player on the bubble can secure a roster spot with a performance in the final exhibition. |  | The sweet life of a CSO patron The 30-plus patrons on the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's European tour get to see a lot of things that regular tourists — and CSO musicians, for that matter — don't. |  | Editorial: Eat your spinach … or else. You can plant supermarkets in nutritionally challenged neighborhoods -- in any neighborhoods, really -- but you can't make people love healthier fare like spinach (or broccoli). Many say the hell with it. |  | Emanuel lends campaign help to two judges Mayor Rahm Emanuel is billed as the guest of honor Thursday night at a popular Chinatown restaurant for a political fundraiser where "gold sponsors" who throw down $2,000 will be able to greet him at a private reception. |  | First lady set for big campaign role — First lady Michelle Obama was once a reluctant campaigner, but there are plenty of reasons she's primed to play a major role in her husband's re-election bid. |  | Haugh: Timing all wrong for Guillen ultimatum So you're White Sox Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf, running a team in the midst of its most encouraging week of a disappointing summer, and your manager sounds more concerned with catching the next flight to Miami than catching the Tigers. | |  | |
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