By Steve Rhodes
For completists, there was no column on Friday.
Weekend ChicagoGram
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Weekend ChicagoTube
Prehistoric Chicago.
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New on the Beachwood . . .
The Beachwood Radio Interview Hour #1: Liz Mason Is Awesome Dot Com
Welcome to this Chicago zine queen’s ass-kicking life of ever-evolving freakdom.
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TrackNotes: Cryotherapy
Last season was so crummy . . .
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The Beachwood Radio Sports Hour #185: The Right Way For Owners To Get Richer
Lower prices, more revenue, better food, shorter lines. Plus: The Bears’ Front Office Is Injured; I Am Obsessed With Who Will Be The Cubs’ Backup Catcher; The Blackhawks Have Been Secretly Rebuilding; The Bulls’ Tank Is Over; NFL’s Two Worst Fan Bases To Meet In Super Bowl; Schweinsteiger!; and There Is No White Sox News.
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Illinois Bill Moving Forward To Pull Out Of Controversial Crosscheck
State lawmakers have set a public hearing date for legislation to protect Illinois voter data by pulling state voter data out of the national Crosscheck program.
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On This Day . . .
My long-ago feature on the Doomsday Clock, which is located in Chicago.
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In 2017: Trump, Wayne Barrett, Ida B. Wells, Sneed, Sean Spicer, Mary Tyler Moore and more!
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In 2012: Rahm’s protesters get paid, everyone else’s get jailed.
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In 2011: About Anne Burke, Illinois Supreme Court justice; her curious definition of conflict-of-interest, and the still-unanswered story of how she got her job.
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In 2011: Rahm’s Rules Part 1: Ballot access for them, not you.
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Weekend BeachBook
Western Wisconsin Led The Nation In Farm Bankruptcies In 2017.
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Weekend TweetWood
A sampling.
An emphatic +1.
To my mind, the highest leverage thing a foundation could do improve public access to criminal justice data in Cook County is to adequately fund @CJPJustProj.
— Forest Timothy Gregg (@forestgregg) January 27, 2018
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Keep Minnesota Real.
Super Bowl tourists will see a Holocaust photo exhibit at the Minneapolis airport https://t.co/jREAxX5tU6
— Kumar (@kumar4458) January 27, 2018
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Don’t ever forget who Piers Morgan is:
“In 1994, aged 29, he was appointed editor of the News of the World by Rupert Murdoch, which made him the youngest editor of a British national newspaper in more than half a century. He later edited the Daily Mirror, and was in charge during the period that the paper was implicated in the phone hacking scandal.”
I mean, there’s more (he was a once a contestant on The Apprentice), but you get the idea.
Piers Morgan engaged in some creative editing of the president’s remarks to characterize them as an apology. https://t.co/Fjj4TmI2RB
— The Intercept (@theintercept) January 26, 2018
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And not just ironically.
I love yacht rock. #ConfessYourUnpopularOpinion
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) January 26, 2018
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The Weekend Desk Tronc Line: Shadow chaser.
Posted on January 27, 2018