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By Steve Rhodes
A new CTU notebook is in progress up. Meanwhile . . .
MKE LOL
“A new animated ad campaign is seeking to persuade local travelers who use Chicago airports to choose Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport instead,” the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports.
Doesn’t Milwaukee try this every year?
Posted on October 22, 2019
By Steve Rhodes
I’ll return to the news and some new CTU strike stuff on Tuesday.
Posted on October 21, 2019
By Steve Rhodes
“Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson had ‘a couple of drinks with dinner’ before driving home and slumping over in his vehicle, Mayor Lori Lightfoot disclosed Friday,” the Sun-Times reports.
Let me tell you something – and I think most if not all of you already know this – when you describe the amount of drinking you’ve done to an authority figure as “a couple,” it’s at least twice that, and almost always more.
Posted on October 19, 2019
By Steve Rhodes
My walk-in song to the coffee shop just now was “Radio Free Europe,” right from those opening beats. Let’s make the day count!
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) October 16, 2019
Posted on October 16, 2019
By Steve Rhodes
So about the Sun-Times/ABC7 Chicago poll that I see a lot of other media folks – and other interested parties – retweeting and citing mindlessly, without thinking critically about just what it is they are endorsing . . .
Posted on October 15, 2019
By Steve Rhodes
ALERT –
Please see this personal note, an update on my search for a new living situation. Now seeking a change ASAP.
Details: https://t.co/NTHbRulEoE
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) October 10, 2019
Posted on October 10, 2019
By Steve Rhodes
Just as I’m writing this Wednesday afternoon, the city has released a trove of documents in the Laquan McDonald murder case showing in part that Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke lied to and disobeyed orders from his supervisors.
Posted on October 9, 2019
By Steve Rhodes
“MedMen Enterprises ended a $682 million deal to buy Chicago-based marijuana company PharmaCann on Tuesday, less than three months before recreational marijuana sales are set to start in Illinois,” the Tribune reports.
“When MedMen agreed to buy PharmaCann last year, it was one of the biggest deals in the history of the legal weed industry. It led a flurry of big-dollar acquisitions in Illinois and around the country, and came in the midst of an outpouring of investment into rapidly expanding marijuana companies.”
So, as Joe Biden (I know!) would say, this is a big fucking deal.
Posted on October 8, 2019
By Steve Rhodes
“As the U.S. warned allies around the world that Chinese tech giant Huawei was a security threat, the FBI was making the same point quietly to a Midwestern university,” AP reports.
“In an e-mail to the associate vice chancellor for research at the University of Illinois, an agent wanted to know if administrators believed Huawei had stolen any intellectual property from the school.”
Posted on October 7, 2019
