By Steve Rhodes
“While the FCC decided to rollback Net Neutrality protections last month, the fight isn’t quite over – Join us once again to write letters to representatives asking them to protect Net Neutrality through the Congressional Review Act. Bloodshot Records will be on hand to set the mood, and Dovetail will provide everything you need to write your rep.”
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New on the Beachwood today . . .
Patrick O’Connor Gets A Challenger
Meet Ugo Okere.
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SportsMonday: Hot Tank League
Commissioner Disappointment, otherwise known as Rob Manfred, has the backs of his tanking teams’ contemptible behavior.
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As Seen On TV 2017 Product Review Recap
From strength bras to Atomic Lighters, what worked and what didn’t.
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Blood Oil
More than half the oil in global trade is stolen goods.
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Chicagoetry: Flight Of The Iguana
I didn’t know iguanas lived in trees. And I didn’t know they fall when they freeze.
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On This Day In Beachwood History . . .
Told ya so.
2015: Willie Wilson Buys Instant Credibility.
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2013: Replacing Alpana Singh. (Rated F for Funny)
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2014: Barack Obama’s Familiar Empty Threat (And The Media’s Journesia).
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2016: Bruce Rauner’s Elephants And Cornfields.
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ChicagoGram
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ChicagoTube
“Every weekend car culture gather in the city. If you’re a regular then you know exactly where this location is.”
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BeachBook
A sampling.
Copyright Royalty Board Boosts Songwriters’ Streaming Pay Nearly 50%.
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How Hedge Funds (Secretly) Get Their Way In Washington.
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We Can’t Win In Afghanistan Because We Don’t Know Why We’re There.
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Trump Launched Campaign To Discredit Potential FBI Witnesses.
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TweetWood
A sampling.
Almost half his followers are fake: https://t.co/vN4naJZAJb
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) January 28, 2018
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Kabul is in so much pain.. this girl her face.. who is she? Who was she before? What will she be in the future? One of the possibly uncounted wounded on a day when almost 100 people got killed. Thanks for the picture @andrewquilty pic.twitter.com/uRnJbNrSMU
— Bette Dam (@BetteDam) January 27, 2018
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She Boarded a Plane to See Her Dying Mother. Then United Canceled Her Ticket And Kicked Her Off Her Flight. https://t.co/Hu4h7wdeYF
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) January 28, 2018
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I’ve been talking about cultural gentrification for years. Take the Cubs, for example … https://t.co/rTRO6unDV6
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) January 28, 2018
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None of the rock awards were televised at the #Grammys. Best Rock Performance went to Leonard Cohen, who died in 2016.
— Songfacts (@Songfacts) January 29, 2018
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Everything Millennials have killed has deserved to die. #GreatestGeneration
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) January 28, 2018
Please kill the Grammys next.
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The Beachwood Tronc Line: Kirky.
Posted on January 29, 2018