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The [Wednesday] Papers1. "Peabody Energy, one of the state's largest coal mine operators, soon could be in bankruptcy, but regulators are allowing it to meet future cleanup obligations with a promise rather than a bond," Crain's reports. What could possibly go wrong? - Previously in Peabody: * Bankruptcy Lawyers Strip Cash From Indiana Coal Miners' Health Insurance. - 2. Governor Statues Put On Hold. Impact! Our very own Ed Hammer broke the story here. - 3. University Of Chicago Professor Resigns During Sexual Harassment Investigation. "[He] probably shouldn't have been hired in the first place: before [he] moved to Chicago, members of the faculty received anonymous e-mails warning that he had been accused of sexual harassment or misconduct while he was at Princeton and the University of North Carolina." - 4. "Mayor Rahm Emanuel was accused Tuesday of playing hide the ball with Northwest Side residents bombarded by O'Hare Airport jet noise," the Sun-Times reports. He sure didn't hide the gall. Ald. Anthony Napolitano (41st) demanded to know why Emanuel made no mention of the $1.3 billion deal he had cut with major airlines to build the final runway at O'Hare when he met just two days before that deal was announced with the anti-noise Fair Allocation in Runways Coalition. Here's the gall part: On Friday night, Napolitano got a call from the mayor's office inviting him to attend Sunday's announcement on the runway deal. Napolitano ignored the invite, according to the Sun-Times. I wonder if he should have gone, though, and made a scene. Or at least asked the mayor right there in front of the TV cameras why he essentially lied to his constituents. * The mayor's office issued a statement to the Sun-Times about how much the mayor cares about the people of Chicago and, of course, the Sun-Times inserted it into the story. That reminded me of this recent Facebook post - check out the first comment:
Well, Scott, you're the paper's political editor, why do you keep publishing them? - 5. The 8th Annual (More Or Less) Beachwood Super Bowl Halftime Show Prop Bet: Coldplay Edition. "This is a bad pick, and not just because Coldplay sucks. It's a bad pick because Coldplay couldn't possibly be less relevant to this year's Super Bowl. They're neither influential enough nor classic enough to matter to anyone. They're the 40-ish divorced suburban dad of contemporary music, and honestly, that guy sucks. He's all weird scientific non-sequiturs and pee-stained sloppiness. Who wants to sit and listen to 'Fix You' in the middle of a football game? And make no mistake, they are going to play 'Fix You' because that is exactly what 40-ish divorced suburban dads do." - 6. Sex Museums, Dick Puppets & Winning Elections. "While I was in graduate school in Chicago, I wanted to think about the relationship between objects, spaces, and people coming into their sexual identities and sexual repertoires. And so I started to think about sex museums . . . " - Sounds like us to me. - 8. Monster Roster: Existentialist Art In Postwar Chicago. Group of postwar artists established the first unique Chicago style. - BeachBook Posted by The Beachwood Reporter on Wednesday, February 3, 2016 *
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- The Beachwood Tip Line: Structured settlement. Posted on February 3, 2016 |
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