The [Thursday] Papers

MONDAY UPDATE: Maybe. Or maybe Tuesday. I'm having issues. I might be sick, for one thing. (Don't call, mom, I'm probably not dying - though one never knows.)

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FRIDAY NOTE: The Papers will appear next on Monday.

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New on the Beachwood today . . .

Illinois Audubon Society Acquires Unique Wetland In Southern Illinois
Round Pond.

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'This wetland rich area contains high quality bottomland hardwood forests and deep water swamps with old growth bald cypress and tupelo gum timber, a variety of breeding birds of forested wetlands, such as the Swainson's warble, a heron rookery, rare plants including water hickory, American snowbell, winged sedge, cypress-knee sedge, swollen sedge, narrow-leaved sunflower and narrow-leaved crabapple.'

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On This Day In . . .

2015: The Beachwood Radio Hour #47: What Chicagoans Aren't Being Told.

Homan Square, the NSA, the CIA, Trans-Pacific Partnership. Plus: Pander bears in a runoff and where Brian Williams hid the news.

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2011: Obama Makes Indefinite Detention And Military Commissions His Own.

Prisoners held in indefinite detention at the Guantanamo Bay camp will periodically be reviewed by a board and have a "personal representative" to advocate for them. But the system, similar to what was in effect under the Bush administration, does not bring President Obama closer to shutting Gitmo.

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ChicagoGram

passing this everyday never gets old 🏡

A post shared by Chicago Blogger | TW Baker (@wittandstyle) on Mar 8, 2018 at 8:42am PST

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ChicagoTube

University Of Chicago To Stop Running Yerkes Observatory.

See also from the Lake Geneva News, "Keeping You Current Since 1872": Yerkes Observatory Closing After 100 Years On Lakefront.

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BeachBook

Alabama Is Home To The Worst Poverty In The Developed World.

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Get Me Outa Wakanda!

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TweetWood
A sampling.

Rahm fundraising.

A man sits in the backseat of his official use only SUV, takes a deep breath and starts making fundraising calls to Hollywood. #firstlines

— Marie Carnes (@mariecarnes) March 8, 2018

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#TBT Women on sports TV talk safety amid Andrews trial https://t.co/0u6K4SdWm9 via @SINow

— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) March 8, 2018

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Here's the thing I'll never understand about the New York Times: You're THE NEW YORK TIMES. Why do you have such average intellects writing for you? You could get any talented, young, thoughtful writer you want. And you go with Bari Weiss and Bret Stephens. https://t.co/8qfbBNmTf7

— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) March 8, 2018

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Here's an inane tweet from our US Dept of Ed secretary. Take a few minutes to read the teachers' responses, and be heartened this evening. https://t.co/3Ze42rOr5I

— Fool for CPS (@foolforcps) March 8, 2018

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TIL: https://t.co/TNcrU0zkRm redirects to Edmunds.

— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) March 8, 2018

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Now that he is back with Thibs, there is officially no chance that Rose walks at his son's graduation https://t.co/YDq8KHGkaF

— Clemzingis (@TheClemReport) March 8, 2018

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