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By Steve Rhodes
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In January a mystery illness swept through a Michigan Avenue call center. Close to 30 people in 1 dept alone had symptoms they couldn’t shake.Researchers now believe hidden outbreaks were creeping through cities like Chicago earlier than previously known. https://t.co/TYrBqzqkGh
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) April 24, 2020
Posted on April 24, 2020
By Steve Rhodes
“Two months after President Donald Trump took office, U.S. Steel dumped a plume of cancer-causing metal into a Lake Michigan tributary 20 miles away from a Chicago drinking water intake,” the Tribune reports.
“The company reported another spill of hexavalent chromium six months later, around the same time public interest lawyers dug up records documenting scores of other clean water violations at the northwest Indiana steel mill.
“Yet Trump appointees at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency declined to punish the company, rebuffing career staff who confirmed U.S. Steel had repeatedly, and illegally, released harmful pollution into the region’s chief source of drinking water.
Posted on April 22, 2020
By Steve Rhodes
I Zoomed with a bunch of college friends last night – it was the second time for the core of us – and it was so much fun. I highly recommend it. And if you can, use a laptop or desktop instead of a phone, because apparently on a phone you can’t see the whole gallery of folks on the call, and that’s half the fun. (And yes, I know Zoom has security issues. Still.)
Posted on April 20, 2020
By Steve Rhodes
Inbox, from BerlinRosen:
Last night, McDonald’s workers on the frontlines of the COVID-19 outbreak were featured on ABC’s Nightline, as anchor Byron Pitts spotlighted the stories of striking food service workers who are saying ‘no more’ until their voices and demands are met.
“This is life or death,” said Adriana Alvarez, a McDonald’s worker and leader in the Fight for $15 and a Union who joined hundreds of fast-food workers on strike Wednesday in Chicago.
Posted on April 17, 2020
By Steve Rhodes
Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Illinois’ most deadly 24 hours of the coronavirus crisis Thursday, with 125 deaths recorded by state authorities. Of course, for numerous reasons, the death counts are almost assuredly higher than the official numbers, which I’m almost certain Pritzker has acknowledged.
The deaths paired with another 1,140 cases of infection, which is not nearly the highest daily number Illinois has recorded, though it’s still . . . an awful lot.
We have no idea if we’re at the peak. That’s not the sort of thing you ultimately know until you’re well past it. Talk of “re-opening” the economy is just nonsense right now.
Posted on April 16, 2020
By Steve Rhodes
Join us today @ 12pm for our Facebook Live conversation with @BeachwoodReport – Steve Rhodes to discuss media coverage of @chicagosmayor nomination of @ChiefDavidBrown for @Chicago_Police superintendent. DM or reply with questions. https://t.co/9PeK4LkiDM
— CJP (@CJPJustProj) April 15, 2020
Posted on April 15, 2020
By Steve Rhodes
The president tells multiple, significant, lethal lies every day, yet some how continues being president. https://t.co/pmx1LRNCQ0
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) April 13, 2020
Posted on April 14, 2020
By Steve Rhodes
What the fuck happened in Little Village over the weekend?
Posted on April 13, 2020
