By Steve Rhodes
Re-enacting history.
Posted on August 14, 2017
The Weekend Desk Report
By Steve Rhodes
For completists, archivists and historians, there was no column on Friday.
Around the region.
Posted on August 12, 2017
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes
For completists, there was no column on Wednesday. Sorry, distractions this week.
“Chicago will hire 20 more food inspectors and three more supervisors to bolster a restaurant inspection team so ‘seriously understaffed,’ it has undermined public trust and jeopardized state funding, Inspector General Joe Ferguson said Wednesday.
“After auditing 2015 inspections, Ferguson concluded last fall that the city’s Department of Public Health Department was falling so far short of state mandates, it would need to hire 56 additional food inspectors to catch up.”
So, um, won’t that still leave Chicago 36 inspectors short?
Posted on August 10, 2017
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes
For completists, there was no column on Monday. And there will barely be one today!
Posted on August 8, 2017
The Weekend Desk Report
By Steve Rhodes
For completists, there was no Papers column on Friday.
Bruce Rauner is making the rounds of the state’s editorial boards complaining about his opponents’ spin, but the reporting shows that he’s the one who is lyin’.
People like to say #SB1 is complicated. And it is. But here’s 1 easy fact: The number$ @GovRauner touted in the news aren’t same as his AV.
— dusty rhodes 📻🎙🐝 (@dustyrhodes919) August 4, 2017
Posted on August 5, 2017
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes
This seemed like a timely reminder: Here’s Bruce Rauner Lying In Multiple Ways About How He Got His Unqualified Daughter Into Payton High School.
Posted on August 3, 2017
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes
This sort of thing still inspires me – and gives me chills.
6+ yrs ago, I was in Abidjan’s Novotel on the day it was attacked by Gbagbo’s thugs, looking to kill journalists. Filing story in closet. pic.twitter.com/yjCvPFkkNh
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) August 1, 2017
Posted on August 2, 2017
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes
Governin’.
Here is @GovRauner seemingly unaware of an IL Supreme Court decision requiring a 3/5 majority to uphold his own amendatory veto#twill pic.twitter.com/YzrsR64CV1
— IL Working Together (@IllinoisWorking) August 1, 2017
Posted on August 1, 2017
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes
“Trump has many strengths,” John Kass writes for the Tribune, “but without discipline, he will begin to lose support of the people who count:
“Those millions of Americans, many of them of the forgotten working class, who fled the Democratic Party and voted for his Republican candidacy after Hillary Clinton ridiculed them as ‘deplorables.'”
This is just plain wrong on several levels – the most important of which comes last.
Posted on July 31, 2017
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes
“More than 100 Chicago Park District drinking fountains have been running nonstop for months – their on and off buttons intentionally disabled by the district,” Monica Eng reports for WBEZ.
“This week, park officials revealed why. They made the move, they said, because tests showed these fountains deliver dangerously high lead-levels when they are returned to manual push-button operation. A continuous flow of water, however, reduces the lead levels substantially, officials said.”
Somehow not reassuring!
Posted on July 28, 2017