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By Steve Rhodes
Tonight at AnySquared Studio, home to Beachwood HQ:
Details here.
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Also, of course, the Cubs, whom we won’t have streaming, but I’ll have on radio. Somehow I’m thinking of watching the debate on Twitter while listening to the Cubs so I can be at the ready with witty remarks the world can’t live without. But also, pinatas.
Posted on October 19, 2016
By Steve Rhodes
“Hundreds of abused and neglected Cook County children go without much-needed adult support each year because of lack of funding for the county’s volunteer advocate program,” Melissa Sanchez reports for the Chicago Reporter.
“About 1 percent of some 5,800 current abuse and neglect cases in the county’s child welfare system have adult volunteers assigned through the nonprofit Court Appointed Special Advocates, or CASA, of Cook County.”
I hate to resort to a cliche, but lack of funding for those most in need is a cliche in itself: A society’s budgets are moral documents.
Posted on October 18, 2016
By Steve Rhodes
A lot of these journalists proclaiming their love of Bob Dylan clearly do not get what he’s been saying all these years or they would conduct themselves quite differently.
Same for a lot of Bruce Springsteen fans.
As Kurt Cobain sang,
He’s the one
Who likes all our pretty songs
And he likes to sing along
And he likes to shoot his gun
But he knows not what it means
Knows not what it means
Posted on October 16, 2016
By Steve Rhodes
“Mayor Rahm Emanuel is giving sizeable pay raises to his personal staff – even as he continues to freeze the salaries of city department heads,” the Sun-Times reports.
“Tucked away in Emanuel’s proposed, 2017 budget is a new, $112,000-a-year assistant to the mayor and pay raises as high as 30 percent for existing members of the mayor’s staff.”
To be fair, we can all agree that members of the mayor’s staff deserve a Cost of Living With Rahm Adjustment.
Posted on October 14, 2016
By Steve Rhodes
I’m looking forward to this tonight, knowing the presenters. Should spark useful discussion. Come by if you want, all are welcome. Click through for details.
Posted on October 12, 2016
By Steve Rhodes
The Chicago Teachers Union and City of Chicago came to a tentative agreement around midnight to avert a strike and keep the schools open today while the Cubs went into the early morning hours before losing Game 3 of their series against the Giants. So the city’s kids aren’t in a good mood right about now.
Posted on October 11, 2016
By Steve Rhodes
There was no Weekend Desk Report, nor a Friday column. A proper column will return on Tuesday. But there’s been plenty of other stuff elsewhere here on the world’s most interesting website . . .
Beachwood Photo Booth: Donuts
Buy one thingie, get one thingie free.
Posted on October 10, 2016
By Steve Rhodes
“On a recent Sunday morning, Chicago police Superintendent Eddie Johnson gathered press and top brass to announce that every patrol officer in the city would be equipped with a body camera by the end of 2018. The price tag, Johnson said, would be $8 million,” Jonah Newman reports for the Chicago Reporter.
“But police officials now acknowledge, after repeated inquiries from The Chicago Reporter, that $8 million doesn’t even cover the first full year. The long-term cost will actually be much higher: By the time every officer on the force is outfitted, the Chicago Police Department will spend more than $6.5 million each year on the body camera program, according to a CPD analysis provided to the Reporter.”
Posted on October 6, 2016
By Steve Rhodes
The Tribune adds some reporting to the Cubs’ special playoff ticket package for the city’s aldermen (and state legislators, the mayor and the governor) that I wrote about on Tuesday:
Posted on October 5, 2016
