By Steve Rhodes
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“Grocery workers, custodians, truckers and health care workers had better be Time’s Person of the Year.” – our very own Nick Shreders
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Mayor Lori Lichtenfuss in action. https://t.co/WoN3yU23t4
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) March 28, 2020
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New on the Beachwood . . .
Glenn Beck’s Turn In The Volcano
Proposal accepted!
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Virtual Wacos
Yard Dog Party lives.
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TrackNotes: Dastardly Derby Drama
“I know it’s a cliche, but times like these open the curtain on who or what people really are,” our man on the rail Tom Chambers writes.
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El Greco: Ambition & Defiance
“El Greco’s dramatic and expressionistic style was met with puzzlement by his contemporaries . . . [He] has been characterized by modern scholars as an artist so individual that he belongs to no conventional school.”
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Unused Rental Cars Parked At Baseball Stadiums
Dodger and Angel Stadiums.
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ICYMI: The Beachwood Radio Sports Hour #297: The Opening Day That Wasn’t
A visit to Ernie Banks’ grave instead. Plus: Curly Neal Made Life Better; Tokyo Drift; The McCaskeys Absolutely Did Not ‘Step Up;’ Ryan Pace’s Pathetic Record Just Got Worse; Bears Re-Sign Tyler Bray!; Biggs Time; Cubs, White Sox Minor Transactions; and UIC Screws Steve McClain.
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ChicagoReddit
How are your respective grocery stores holding up? from r/chicago
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ChicagoGram
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ChicagoTube
Elton John / “I Guess That’s Why They Call It the Blues” (2019)
Not a particularly good version – I don’t like the uptempo and it’s decidedly unimaginative with the band doing next to nothing – but it was just posted to YouTube. (I love the original, btw.)
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BeachBook
Nature vs. Nurture? Add Noise To The Debate.
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Tech Boom, MLB Programs Helping Women Find Jobs In Baseball.
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TweetWood
A sampling of the delight and disgust you can find @BeachwoodReport.
“I think the president is doing very little other than watching media coverage right now,” @maggieNYT told @brianstelter on Sunday’s @ReliableSources. https://t.co/JXvGln62tm
— Michael Kruse (@michaelkruse) March 30, 2020
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The White House’s new trick of turning off the microphone so reporters can’t asks follow ups is pretty much what you need to know.
— Anne Rumsey Gearan (@agearan) March 29, 2020
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Fact check on tonight’s briefing: Trump denies saying two things he said on television in the last four days. https://t.co/cq608GRtTr
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 30, 2020
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Trump has told people he wants his signature to appear on the direct payment checks that will go out to many Americans. Normally, a civil servant–the disbursing officer for the payment center–would sign federal checks. @AndrewRestuccia scoop: https://t.co/7ZE1n8rceB
— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) March 28, 2020
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Jay Carney is a former Time magazine Washington bureau chief who later served as Barack Obama’s press secretary. https://t.co/Zw0QR850xy
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) March 30, 2020
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Your net worth is $15 million. https://t.co/TbrVJ7TdiW
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) March 29, 2020
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This is one of those things where you’d really like to see it written about the way it would be if it were happening elsewhere–“Ahead of elections, the regime is channeling aid and medical supplies to loyalists and withholding it from regions controlled by the opposition,” etc https://t.co/w7D820jVzz
— Tim Marchman (@timmarchman) March 29, 2020
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Thanks, David Geffen, for your thoughts. pic.twitter.com/5XTRhGX5OP
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) March 28, 2020
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The Beachwood Tip Line: Channeling.
Posted on March 30, 2020