By Steve Rhodes
For completists, there was no column on Thursday or Friday. Similarly, there is no “top” to this Weekend Desk Report. I’ll jump back in the game on Monday.
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New on the Beachwood . . .
Tween Shitbag
“Oh man, I really love your band . . . ”
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Judge Orders Rahm To Justify Cop Academy Secrecy
At stake: more than 400 pages of documents the mayor has refused to make public.
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The Clown School Coming To Chicago
Also: the word’s first Online Certificate Training in Clown.
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Bridget Gainer’s Cook County Land Bank To Demolish Structurally Sound 1924 Washington Park Bank Building Despite Promises, Community Input & Options To Save It
“Cook County Land Bank Authority announces rejection of two high-quality adaptive reuse proposals in favor of demolition. The results of this ‘model process’ – CCLBA’s first large-scale mixed use development – bodes poorly for other historic structures in predominately minority and low-income communities.”
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Poetic Nightmares For A World Going Mad
“A man who wears a toupee to hide an injury inflicted by secret police, a group of villagers who make a bad bargain with a land agent.”
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‘Total Embarrassment’: Washington Post Rebuked For Failed Fact-Check Of Sanders On Trillion-Dollar Wall Street Bailout
Another Glenn Kessler special.
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The Bias Hiding In Your Library
From astronauts to nurses.
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The Beachwood Radio Sports Hour #244: As Good (And Bad) As The NCAA Gets
It was the best of sports, it was the worst of sports. Plus: When The Water Polo Coach Is Corrupt . . . ; Eloy!; Ricketts’ Still Out Of Money; The Ex-Cub Factor; Punter Stays Pat; So You’re Saying The Blackhawks Still Have A Shot; Bulls Blowing Tank; and We Don’t Start The Fire.
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Coffman: “Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the greatest fraud in American history: amateur athletics. But that is another column for another time. For today: let’s have some Madness!”
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The Ex-Cub Factor
Hello, Cleveland.
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24 Hours With Lakeshore TV
Meditation for all of us.
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Weekend ChicagoReddit
Servers of Chicago, what kind of housing are you able to afford? from r/chicago
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Weekend ChicagoGram
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Weekend BeachBook
A sampling.
The Secret Lives Of Inner-City Black Males.
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How Joe Rogan’s Hugely Popular Podcast Became An Essential Platform For “Freethinkers” (Including Alex Jones And Billy Corgan) Who Hate The Left.
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Weekend TweetWood
A sampling.
Just catching up with this horrible scandal. Can we impeach/recall congressmen? https://t.co/hAFoMwV8Ot
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) March 24, 2019
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From 2015, but still relevant: There’s scientific consensus on guns – and the NRA won’t like it https://t.co/4aOnKu4LVy
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) March 24, 2019
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The ugliness is almost all on one side, and one in a number of reasons Preckwinkle’s campaign is such a turnoff. Her surrogates are despicable. Bobby Rush, btw, endorsed Richard M. Daley, Rahm Emanuel and Bill Daley. So blood on his hands past, present and would’ve-been future. https://t.co/WuJu8SxGaQ
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) March 24, 2019
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How Americans Were Deceived About Cell-Phone Location Data: https://t.co/wFGnjZqX9n “Remember when multiple Obama Administration figures said the NSA doesn’t collect it? That wasn’t true.”
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) March 24, 2019
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I know. I love the serendipity of “surfing the print newspaper” with no links, videos, documents to distract you. And there’s nothing like skimming the tiny number of articles chosen for you that appear a day later compared to skimming, say, 30 websites instead of 3 print papers. https://t.co/46LXPnpXwa
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) March 24, 2019
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The Weekend Desk McRibTipLine: Skim gym.
Posted on March 24, 2019