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By Steve Rhodes
“The luxury helicopter that crashed Sunday morning in California, killing all nine people on board including former NBA star Kobe Bryant, was once owned by the state of Illinois,” Ben Orner reports for Capitol News Illinois.
What a weird, local twist.
Posted on January 27, 2020
By Steve Rhodes
1. Loverboy Works For The Weekend At The Genesee On Saturday.
Somebody turn Mike Reno loose already.
Posted on January 25, 2020
By Steve Rhodes
“At a time when leading legislators’ private side jobs are increasingly under scrutiny, newly elevated state Senate President Don Harmon will step down as a partner at the law firm Burke Burns & Pinelli, Ltd. to focus full-time on his new leadership position,” WTTW reports.
The Beachwood gets results! (See “Oak Park Lawyer Gets Big Side Job.”)
Posted on January 23, 2020
By Steve Rhodes
Bobby Rush has been in thrall to AT&T for far longer than he was a Black Panther. Keep up. cc: @maggieNYT https://t.co/j83pO2lYcr
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) January 22, 2020
Posted on January 22, 2020
By Steve Rhodes
The big news over the weekend in Illinois politics was the election of Oak Park Democrat Don Harmon to the state senate presidency, replacing the retiring John Cullerton.
Harmon defeated Maywood Democrat Kimberly Lightford. Lightford was (and remains) the senate majority leader. Harmon had been the assistant majority leader, so in a sense he leaped over his colleague to get the top job.
Also:
I’m not saying it should all come down to “identity politics,” I just find it interesting that the race is between a white male from Oak Park and an African-American from Maywood. https://t.co/OXGJ7bXrYX
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) January 19, 2020
Posted on January 21, 2020
By Steve Rhodes
Still on the hunt for a new living space – I’ve had a couple close calls but no deal sealed. Reach out if you know of something and/or someone looking for a roommate.
Posted on January 19, 2020
By Steve Rhodes
So a tooth saga that started in August finally (hopefully) ended yesterday when they just pulled that sucker out, and by “they” I mean my favorite dentist of the five who ultimately looked at the thing (six if you count the supervisor of a UIC dentistry student).
I had never had a tooth pulled before, and I was surprised at how quickly it went. Like, bim boom bam. Gone.
I was prescribed painkillers – Tylenol 3, which has codeine in it, and 800mg ibuprofens, which I call superprofens – but the thing is, there’s no pain. And this, I’ve learned, is not unusual. Often, once the tooth is gone, the pain is gone too, for the pain was in the tooth.
I’m on antibiotics – for the third time since this wonderful journey began – because the gum is still infected. Other than that, I’m back to my normal state of crappiness, and I can start eating like a normal person again, though there is now a hole at the very back of my lower left rack of teeth. Maybe I’ll store stuff there, or insert a Bluetooth something or other. Or maybe the government already has . . .
Posted on January 16, 2020
By Steve Rhodes
I just had a tooth pulled, AMA
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) January 15, 2020
Posted on January 15, 2020
By Steve Rhodes
“Gov. Pritzker set aside about ten minutes for interviews with some political reporters last week,” Rich Miller notes at Capitol Fax.
And we’re seeing a spate of reporters from various news organizations produce stories from those 10-minute interviews.
But let me just say something: 10 minutes?
Please. You’ve been had.
Posted on January 14, 2020
By Steve Rhodes
“Billionaire Michael Bloomberg is the 8th richest person on the planet with a fortune estimated at $57.1 billion. His wealth has spared him from doing any fundraising for his presidential campaign. He will spend at least $150 million on television and internet ads. He has a $10 million ad that will air during the Super Bowl,” Erick Johnson writes for the Crusader.
“On Wednesday, January 8, Bloomberg brought his presidential campaign to Olive-Harvey College on Chicago’s Far South Side.
“It’s a neighborhood that has far less wealth and affluence than Bloomberg. So does most of Black Chicago, which has long suffered from poverty, disinvestment, little affordable housing and the many police brutality issues that have impacted Blacks in the last several years.
“None of these were mentioned in Bloomberg’s speech.”
Posted on January 13, 2020
