By Steve Rhodes
I’ve been away from the news all day and it’s 4:33 p.m. as I write this, so I’m just gonna get started on the top of tomorrow’s column. See you then!
Meanwhile . . .
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New on the Beachwood . . .
More Than 100 Accordionists Coming To Lisle
The beauty and wonder.
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Sinclair Makes Last Ditch Effort To Salvage Tribune Merger. Will FCC Bite?
Is the fix in? Or is the deal dead?
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Jeff Bezos Just Became The Richest Person Ever. Amazon Workers Just Marked #PrimeDay With Strikes Against Low Pay And Brutal Conditions.
Strikes against Amazon’s notoriously appalling working conditions – which include forcing warehouse employees to skip bathroom breaks and urinate in bottles to meet the company’s unrealistic performance expectations – come as Bezos is coming under growing pressure to address his treatment of employees.
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France: Worthy Winners. But Here’s What The Statistics Say About Who’s Best In World Cup History
How they stack up.
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Court Vacates Injunction Against Publishing The Law
Industry groups want to control access to legal rules and regulations.
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Pilcher Park Now A Dedicated Nature Preserve
Outstanding spring wildflowers displays, old-growth trees, awesome birds, a kick-ass greenhouse and a cool-ass dam.
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ChicagoGram
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ChicagoTube
Amazing Michael Jackson Impersonator Aboard A Sunset Cruise In Chicago.
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TweetWood
A sampling.
But local journalism!
Newspaper headlines today largely treated Trump’s ludicrous “clarification” respectfully, like as something other than obvious nonsense. The stories were politely skeptical. pic.twitter.com/kx1PDNjqVv
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 18, 2018
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ICE works to prevent journalists from visiting detained immigrants.They withhold information about required forms until it is too late to set up visits, withhold information about rules for visiting facilities, and present elaborate, shifting requirements in hope press gives up
— Molly Crabapple (@mollycrabapple) July 17, 2018
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Amazing. Half of Trump voters worry that they personally will be attacked by the gang MS-13.
This is a gang that targets immigrant teens in a few specific areas, has not grown in size for a decade, and is not active at all in most US towns. https://t.co/xgkMuPL8Bw
— Hannah Dreier (@hannahdreier) July 17, 2018
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Busted by @ShaneGoldmacher: One Andrew Cuomo donor gave 69x–67 of them $1 donations–driving down average donation size so gov could claim more “grassroots” support. Donor happens to share address w a campaign aide. https://t.co/MWJmp5yLOV
— Beth Reinhard (@bethreinhard) July 18, 2018
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Helfinki.
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) July 17, 2018
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The Beachwood Tronc Line: Hellfinki.
Posted on July 18, 2018