By Steve Rhodes
I don’t know where the weekend went.
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New on the Beachwood . . .
Last Year, Amazon Paid No Federal Income Taxes . . .
. . . Now, It’s Trying To Kill A Local Tax That Aims To Help the Homeless.
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TrackNotes: Derby Testament
“The race is so aberrational. Just a stampede at a distance many of them won’t handle at a steroidal facility run by a corporation that just makes the skin crawl.”
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The Beachwood Radio Sports Hour #199: Panic! At Wrigley Field
What Up With Youth? Plus: Spammy Sosa; White Sox Stuff; Bears Breakdown; Schweinsteiger!; Chicago’s Pearl; and Meet The Chicago Wildfire.
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Chicagoetry: Darling Buds
Mind and wind.
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Weekend ChicagoGram
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Weekend ChicagoTube
Chicago Lingo.
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Weekend BeachBook
Author Mary Karr Reminds The World That David Foster Wallace Abused And Stalked Her And Nobody Cared.
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Why And When Roseanne Was Good (The First Time Around).
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How Trump Fixer Michael Cohen Built His ‘Shadowy’ Business Empire.
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Check Out The Otherworldly Lifeforms Scientists Found On The Bottom Of The Ocean Floor.
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James Comey Was A Fun Interview Back In The Day.
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Weekend TweetWood
A sampling.
No @BBCNews: “enhanced interrogation techniques” are not “something human rights groups say amounts to torture”. They are torture. https://t.co/zFVrSFfYId
— Iain Levine (@iainlevine) May 5, 2018
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Fixed it. pic.twitter.com/wtNJ3cdrKM
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) May 4, 2018
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being a roofer is abt 100x more dangerous than being a cop but can you imagine the roofers of the world stomping around demanding society’s undying respect or refusing to roof any more houses until the mayor told each one of them individually that they are brave and handsome
— KT NELSON (@KrangTNelson) May 5, 2018
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Peoria nightclub institutes criminal background check policy on customers https://t.co/eXGHzZBkND
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) May 5, 2018
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Western Illinois coroner will hold your family’s ashes hostage for $1,000, won’t produce a death certificate without payment https://t.co/W9sZ2pv6Yd
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) May 5, 2018
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Dr King’s white public approval in April 1968 was 23%. Let that sink in, civil rights history revisionists.
— Broderick Greer (@BroderickGreer) November 19, 2015
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Still asking.
Honest question: Has a weekly bought by a daily ever gotten *better*? https://t.co/fieYKaWMtE
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) May 5, 2016
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The Weekend Desk Tronc Line: Pro tip.
Posted on May 6, 2018