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By Steve Rhodes
The Papers will be sporadic this week as I’m on a freelance deadline that is sucking my brain apart and redistributing it to all corners of the universe, but we’ll still have plenty of good material throughout the site. Here’s today’s:
Posted on January 31, 2013
By Steve Rhodes
The Papers will be sporadic this week as I’m on a freelance deadline that is sucking my brain apart and redistributing it to all corners of the universe, but we’ll still have plenty of good material throughout the site. Here’s today’s:
Posted on January 30, 2013
By Steve Rhodes
The Papers will be sporadic this week as I’m on a freelance deadline that is sucking my brain apart and redistributing it to all corners of the universe, but we’ll still have plenty of good material throughout the site. Here’s today’s:
Posted on January 29, 2013
By Steve Rhodes
The Papers will be sporadic this week as I’m on a freelance deadline that is sucking my brain apart and redistributing it to all corners of the universe, but we’ll still have plenty of good material throughout the site all week. Here’s today’s:
Posted on January 28, 2013
By Natasha Julius
Super Bore Sunday Special
Every year we here at the Weekend Desk try to help you cope with the horrible week between the conference championships and the Super Bowl. After all, there is such a thing as life without football. Well, real serious football, anyway.
Posted on January 26, 2013
By Steve Rhodes
“The Ricketts family has been angling to fix aging Wrigley Field since buying the Cubs in 2009, only to see plan after plan of how to pay for improvements fail amid political considerations and public relations gaffes,” the Tribune reports.
“Now after months of behind-the-scenes talks between team officials and City Hall, the latest plan to spend $300 million repairing the historic ballpark emerged this week, creating a sense of momentum even as competing interests continue to try to wring out the best deal.”
A sense of momentum that apparently won’t be interrupted by reporters asking the questions that fall outside of the narrative they are being fed.
Posted on January 25, 2013
By Steve Rhodes
“North Korea said on Thursday it would carry out further rocket launches and a nuclear test that would target the United States, dramatically stepping up its threats against a country it called its ‘sworn enemy,'” Reuters reports.
The best reporting on North Korea lately, though, was done by the daughter of Google chairman Eric Schmidt. See Sophie in North Korea.
Posted on January 24, 2013
By Steve Rhodes
“For the past three weeks, Chicago drivers have unknowingly been enjoying a reprieve from paying America’s highest parking meter rates,” the Expired Meter reports.
“That’s because none of the city’s more than 4,100 parking meter pay boxes have been changed to reflect the higher rate which officially went into effect on Jan. 1.
“That means city parkers, who are still paying the 2012 rate, have collectively saved close to $900,000, based on past monthly revenues generated by the meters.”
Posted on January 23, 2013
By Steve Rhodes
“Instead of bearing witness to President Barack Obama ‘s second inauguration in prime seats in Washington, D.C., Father Michael Pfleger went to an Aurora High School Monday night with a Martin Luther King Day warning: The slain civil rights leader’s message must not be watered down, and he should not be treated like a history lesson,” the Sun-Times reports.
“Let me make it clear. If you’ve studied Dr. King, his message was prophetic, and his message was radical,” the pastor from Chicago’s South Side said.
And then the Sun-Times proceeds to water down King’s message with empty quotes instead of daring to explore what he really said about race, economics and American militarism.
Posted on January 22, 2013
By Steve Rhodes
Just briefly today as I have a morning appointment.
* We Would Have Jailed Martin Luther King Jr. Under NDAA.
* Obama: MLK Would Have Backed Occupy Protests.
And then Obama Would Have Jailed Him.
Posted on January 21, 2013
