 If you go on YouTube, you can watch Steve Mahan as he walks out his front door, climbs behind the wheel of a Toyota Prius, pulls out onto the street and motors over to Taco Bell to get a burrito from the drive-thru window. It's pretty mundane stuff — except that Mahan is legally blind, and the car, a project of Google, is driving itself.  | Editorial: Momentum for school choice About half the students in Louisiana are about to get a chance to choose the best school for themselves. That's the impact of the amazingly ambitious school reform program engineered by Gov. Bobby Jindal. Some 380,000 poor and middle-class students in low-performing schools will be offered a voucher worth up to $8,500. They can choose a school, they can line up a local business apprenticeship, they can take online classes toward a diploma. |  | Editorial: Playboy leaves town Chicago has always had some ... ambivalence ... about sex. Politicians and business leaders (indeed newspaper editors and reporters) were regulars at the Everleigh Club, the infamous turn-of-the-century brothel in what is now the South Loop that was protected by Ald. Michael "Hinky Dink" Kenna and "Bathhouse" John Coughlin. Regulars, that is, until Mayor Carter Harrison II shut the place down in 1911. |  | Quinn's teacher pension reform Even though Illinois is putting $2.4 billion into the Teachers' Retirement System this year, it still accounts for more than half of the state's $83 billion in unfunded pension liabilities. | |  | |
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