By Steve Rhodes
1. “Rod Run To Be Held Saturday.”
Though it’s not what I thought it was, you can’t tell me it wasn’t plausible.
2. “Boeing Again Delays Dreamliner Release.”
Don’t worry. Glenn Beck will fill in.
Posted on August 30, 2010
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius
Sure we’re emotionally drained, but no way are we stepping down.
Market Update
Own Business continued to thrive this week, demonstrating once again that when the rest of the economy tanks people finally start minding it.
Posted on August 28, 2010
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes
I’ll deal with Robert Blagojevich on Monday, I didn’t have time to finish my post this morning. I need a personal assistant, a wife, a managing editor, a personal trainer, a million dollars and a better couch to fall asleep on while watching bad late-night TV as part of my unique research habits. Inquire within.
1. The holdout juror speaks. Monday, people. Can’t do the heavy lifting today.
2. I’ll tell you who’s doing the heavy lifting around here today – Mike Luce and Tom Chambers. Mike Luce – also known as Dr. Dude – is our resident college football analyst and if I can say so myself, I’m not sure there’s a better one anywhere in the nation.
Posted on August 27, 2010
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes
The Beachwood is going to have a nice pancake breakfast and then spend the day mired in a tardy assignment from its accountant as well as other business-related unpleasantries. We will return on Friday chock full of vigor.
In the meantime, remember you can follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
See you tomorrow.
Posted on August 26, 2010
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes
Illinois congressman Timothy Johnson makes about a hundred phone calls a day in an effort to reach every one of his 653,647 constituents, Tribune Newspapers reports.
Tribune notes that Johnson is “one of the most unconventional Republicans in the House,” according to CQ’s Politics in America.
Here’s my favorite part of the Tribune report:
Posted on August 25, 2010
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes
“Four vehicles, each filled with garbage, sit outside a home in a quiet Schaumburg neighborhood, where a mentally ill man has been living in his front yard since it was padlocked by a mortgage company,” the Tribune reports. “As angry as his neighbors have become, they have hesitated to sign complaints that would get John Wuerffel arrested.”
One of the more poignant signs of the times.
Posted on August 24, 2010
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes
I haven’t even gotten to today’s papers yet so let me just catch up with the weekend and cover today tomorrow. Just like print editions do!
Blago’s Next Moves
What sources tell the Beachwood.
Why Lou Really Left Early
What sources tell the Beachwood.
Posted on August 23, 2010
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius
Sick of the Cubs? Can’t stomach the Sox? Thank goodness Major Lying Bastard season is in full – and perpetual – swing.
Market Update
Sadly, it’s looking like the whole Noble Ideas Index may collapse after this week as Community, Revitalization and Dignity were all subjects of a hostile takeover by Reality.
Posted on August 21, 2010
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes
For awhile there yesterday – and I wasn’t the only one – I thought I had learned that the holdout juror was a precinct captain for Sandi Jackson. Wouldn’t that have been interesting?
I had to settle instead for discovering that – according to one report – she said during jury that “she has gotten some of what she knows about Blagojevich from Jay Leno, which got a broad smile and a big laugh from the former governor.”
For that and the exasperated – and right – local reporter who thinks she’s crazy, see The Holdout Juror in Beachwood Politics.
Posted on August 20, 2010
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes
“Feeling the eyes of the nation upon them, jurors in the corruption trial of Rod Blagojevich grew tense as realization sank in earlier this week that they might convict the former governor on only one of 24 counts he faced,” the Tribune reports.
“Of particular concern, several jurors said Wednesday, was the lone holdout on numerous counts that would have convicted Blagojevich of trying to sell the U.S. Senate seat vacated by President Barack Obama.
“John Grover, 52, a juror from Joliet, said he grew so frustrated after three days of deliberating on the same charge that he yelled at the woman who refused to join the other 11 in agreeing to convict.
“‘I gave her a piece of my mind,’ Grover said. ‘If it wasn’t for that one lady, we’d have had him convicted on probably 80 percent of (the indictment).'”
And then we wouldn’t have all these brilliant minds telling us everything that was wrong with the government’s case.
Posted on August 19, 2010