The [Wednesday] Papers

By Steve Rhodes

Trib budget vote article another example of how the so-called objective MSM hardly writes in an objective fashion: https://t.co/zSex6YTy1n

— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) October 28, 2015

‘It’s not like he had much of a choice.’

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Hinz (an acknowledged Rahm voter): ‘Emanuel is getting smarter in how to work his will.’ You mean his will hasn’t been worked up to now?

— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) October 28, 2015

Greg Hinz “explains” today for Crain’s why Rahm’s budget will pass. Has a Chicago mayor’s budget ever not passed – and by a huge margin – in the last 30 years? Or ever?
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“Six months ago, when Mayor Rahm Emanuel was fighting for his political life in a re-election runoff against Jesus ‘Chuy’ Garcia, even Chicagoans wise in the ways of City Hall would have raised an eyebrow if you’d told them that soon the mayor would propose a $588 million property tax increase and that a wide majority of aldermen would compliantly and promptly enact it.”
What? We all knew a property tax hike was coming. It was common knowledge. That’s partly what made Emanuel’s attack on a property tax hike vote Garcia took when Harold Washington was mayor so despicable.
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“After all, hiking the property tax long has been the third rail of Chicago politics, a too-hot-to-handle matter that even Richard M. Daley at the height of his powers refused to try. It couldn’t happen now, could it?”
Huh? Daley did raise property taxes – including the largest such hike at the time in Chicago’s history.
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Will Mayor Emanuel’s budget proposal pass? We’ll ask him tonight: https://t.co/uA8QrCsMSq #ChicagoTonight pic.twitter.com/rWk13P9nvV

— WTTW11 (Chicago PBS) (@wttw) October 27, 2015

Asking Rahm the tough questions! Also: How great are you, Rahm? And, do you like us? https://t.co/2rmoQX8Et1

— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) October 27, 2015

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P.S.:

Idea: Ask him all the questions for the week from other reporters that he has refused to answer. https://t.co/2rmoQX8Et1

— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) October 27, 2015

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I haven’t had the psychic energy to actually watch the interview – and I doubt I’ve missed anything. Think a little bit harder about the opportunity (and responsibility) you have, please.

Ask him to say Richard M. Daley’s name. And also, who was the council’s floor leader back then? https://t.co/e11sGfNVZw

— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) October 27, 2015

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Then again . . .

I’m going to steal the construction of this tweet for the next Rahm exclusive. https://t.co/zanhUXk7yd

— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) October 28, 2015

Imagine being the journalist thought to be unquestioning enough to be let inside GCHQ to write about it. https://t.co/6fEkBM7DzU

— Jane Bradley (@jane__bradley) October 28, 2015

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Maybe more local TV news like this!
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Big Company Spins Off New Company. Loads It Up With 8,400 Retirees. New Company Goes Bankrupt. Retirees Lose Benefits.
“All I could think is, you dirty, low-down rotten scoundrels. How could anyone with a conscience do something like this?”
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Local Book Notes: Chicagonomics & Bob Rohrman
Why are these men laughing?
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Local Music Notebook: Mac Sabbath, Babes In Toyland & The Old Comiskeys
“But the time had come, he said, to bring drive-thru metal up from the ‘underground.'”
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BeachBook

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Look, I’m just the messenger.

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The Beachwood Tip Line: Play it again, Mac.

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Posted on October 28, 2015