Tag: Chicago
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Chicago Tribune sees mass exodus of columnists then sends me a subscription increase bill
It didn’t take long for the buyer of the Tribune to gut the once mighty newspaper. Buyouts were offered and all the columnists that were worth reading took their buyouts. The biggest was John Kass and the latest is Dahleen Glanton. I read them both regularly. Not just to keep tabs on my home town…
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Stop Rex from Crying!
Episode 8 Value 4 ValueListen to this on Podfriend Shownotes I cover all the stories and more from the past week. Plus if you listen closely you might hear one of my dogs crying because she wants to be let into my office while I’m recording. I start out with our Secretary of HHS spewing…
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The only TV news program I miss
I never watched a lot of TV news but WGN to me was king of local news. It doesn’t get more Chicago than WGN.
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Don’t worry that Mayor Lightfoot might be racist worry about the construction of real institutional racism
Mayor Lori Lightfoot of my hometown, Chicago, Illinois, has outed herself as a possible racist. Here is a quote from the 2 page letter she sent out. The emphasis on two words are mine. I will be exclusively providing one-on-one interviews with journalists of color. Then in the very next sentence talks about fighting for…
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1/5th of a second
That’s the length of time between an empty hand rising and an officer shooting. What decision would you make? The video of the Chicago Police officer shooting Adam Toledo was released. What everyone is showing is the still frame from the video of Toledo’s hand empty just before he was shot. This is being reported…
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Chicago is so flush with cash it can provide Guaranteed Basic Income to residents
Some genius Chicago aldermen have the brilliant idea to provide a “Guaranteed Basic Income” to city residents. Alderman Gilbert Villegas, Alderwoman Maria Hadden and Alderwoman Sophia King introduced the resolution to the Committee on Economic, Capital and Technology Development of the Chicago City Council. “Distributing cash directly to Chicago families would transform life for millions…