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The [Tuesday] PapersTo all those who took the #broomchallenge last night and stood their brooms up:
- Shredding Lettuce "The same city department ticketed the North Side scrap yard five times during the past two months - the latest signs that General Iron's once-formidable clout at City Hall is slipping away as Mayor Lori Lightfoot reviews policy and enforcement decisions made by her predecessor." And that's not all. "Previous inspections largely absolved General Iron of any wrongdoing. But during all five of the recent visits, a health inspector said she observed 'untreated emissions' escaping the company's pair of massive scrap shredders along the Chicago River near Clybourn Avenue and Cortland Street." Meanwhile, in his new book, "Emanuel, former two-term mayor of Chicago and White House Chief of Staff for President Barack Obama, offers a firsthand account of how cities, rather than the federal government, stand at the center of innovation and effective governance." * Back to the Trib: "The company is fighting back. 'Not only are the city citations inconsistent with the results of the recent tests performed for the state and federal EPAs, but they came after at least two years of regular, weekly city inspections without any violations,' Randall Samborn, a General Iron spokesman, said in a statement." Randall Samborn, the former longtime spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney's Office here infamous for never commenting (on the record, at least), you are Today's Worst Person In Chicago. * Samborn, by the way, doesn't work directly for General Iron. He's a hired mouth. * Samborn is engaged in "strategic communications," the strategy in this case being how to absolve a polluter of endangering the health of those who live near his well-paying client. * Of course, sometimes to communicate strategically is to not communicate at all. * For example, Samborn didn't make himself available to answer questions - like about this: "E-mails obtained by the Tribune highlight cordial relationships between Emanuel's lieutenants and the Labkon family that owned General Iron through four generations. The former mayor also was the top recipient of the more than $500,000 in campaign contributions to local politicians from family members, who hired a former top aide to Emanuel as one of their City Hall lobbyists. "One previously undisclosed favor involved Emanuel's health commissioner, Julie Morita, who urged City Hall to pressure leaders of the University of Illinois at Chicago to quash the release of a pilot study of air quality near General Iron, the e-mails show. A UIC researcher had installed monitoring equipment around the scrap yard at the behest of a neighborhood resident, and the testing found elevated levels of lung-damaging particulate matter downwind from the scrap shredders. "I will be following up with the dean of the UIC School of Public Health," Morita wrote in a May 2018 e-mail to Robert Rivkin, who served as deputy mayor under Emanuel. "You may need to engage the (UIC) chancellor if you want this to be stopped." You may need to "engage" the chancellor of a public university that their school of public health is overly concerned with public health. * "On their way out of City Hall, top Emanuel aides gave the scrap merchant permission to keep operating until 2022 on riverfront land that local aldermen are pushing to convert into a city park. Lightfoot ordered General Iron to abandon the North Side by the end of this year instead." There's more; go read the rest. - University Of Illinois Sexual Misconduct Survey "The survey was sent to 12,500 graduate and undergraduate students in spring 2019. Of the 2,076 people who responded, roughly 1 in 5 women and 4% of men said they've been sexually assaulted since coming to the U of I." Frankly, those numbers sound low to me. - Jose's Way A Capitol Fax commenter posted a link to this 2013 Washington Post article that establishes precedent: A D.C. government agency paid a Chicago consulting firm $89,995 for one day of work at a recent city education conference, a fee that included a half-hour keynote speech, three 45-minute parent workshops and hundreds of copies of parenting books. Emphasis mine, for those who wanted to jump right to the payoff. * Bonus: "SPC Consulting is headed by Sunny P. Chico, a former U.S. Education Department official who contracts with school systems. She is married to lobbyist Gery Chico, who ran for Chicago mayor in 2011 and serves as chairman of the Illinois State Board of Education." - New on the Beachwood . . . Kris Bryant's Future Bar Trick - ChicagoReddit The good: Rage Against The Machine at the United Center on 5/19/20. The bad: Chicago is the only US stop where Run the Jewels will NOT be opening. What the hell? from r/chicago - ChicagoGram - ChicagoTube Death Tour at Reggies last week. - BeachBook The Supreme Court Is As Complicit As The Senate.
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* These people will never learn. The MSM doesn't budget. Their minds are closed. Same true locally.
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- The Beachwood Tips Over Line: A clean sweep. Posted on February 11, 2020 |
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