By Steve Rhodes
The Papers will return on Monday, June 2nd, in part because I’m preparing to move this weekend eight blocks up Milwaukee Avenue to the California stop. If anyone wants to help, let me know; many hands make light work (as Cameron Poe once said). I really don’t have much besides books and files.
But that doesn’t mean there won’t be any new Beachwood content over the next few days. To wit:
* SportsMondayTuesday: Panic Central.
* The Cub Factor: Will appear on Wednesday.
* Good News TV: When Crime Was Down And Local Nazis Weren’t Bugging Us.
* Under The Surface: Lifting The Veil On Daily Life In The Middle East.
* The Weekend In Chicago Rock: Featuring Purge, Deadly Attribute, Pressure Point, Those Unknown, Failure, De/vision, Future, and the Eels.
And in case you missed it . . . the latest from The Beachwood Radio Network:
* The Beachwood Radio Hour: Mortgage Street.
The Chicago Reporter’s Angela Caputo explains the foreclosure crisis through the prism of a single property on a block known as Mortgage Street.
Plus: The Neighborhood Issue That Could Bring Down Rahm, Redflex Redux & Downstate’s Dark History.
* The Beachwood Radio Criminal Justice Hour: Pot.
How Chicago’s New Pot Law Is Bogus, How Roosevelt University’s New Study Is Bogus, And How The Media Covers The Bogosity. With Tracy Siska of the Chicago Justice Project.
Plus: The Week In Juvey.
* The Beachwood Radio Sports Hour: Coach Queasy & The Qubs.
* Due to unforeseen circumstances, Beachwood International will return next week.
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* Most U.S. Drone Strikes In Pakistan Attack Houses.
* The Lawyer And The Kill-List Memo.
Barron’s memo providing the legal case for killing Awlaki was written seven months after Obama placed him on the kill list.
* Memorial Day 1994: Pre-Congress Mike Quigley And Chicago’s Killing Fields.
* Anti-Homeless Barriers Installed Under Kennedy Expressway.
* Lithuanians In Springfield: The Mine Wars.
* MLBPA Concerned About Cubs’ Spending.
* A.J. Pierzynski’s Struggles A Symbol Of Woe.
* Baseball Lords Vexed By Plans For A New King.
But as Mr. Selig’s final season unfolds, Mr. Manfred’s candidacy is meeting turbulence from an unexpected antagonist: Jerry Reinsdorf, the 78-year-old owner of the Chicago White Sox and long one of Mr. Selig’s most loyal allies in the game.
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“Kinsley has actually done the book a great favor by providing a vivid example of so many of its central claims.” https://t.co/DQ2i7OS6bR
— The Intercept (@the_intercept) May 23, 2014
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The number of US journalists who cheer for a criminalize-journalism screed is the best self-critique I’ve ever seen https://t.co/0YKVzJOvzx
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) May 26, 2014
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The year of living more dangerously: Obama’s drone speech was a sham http://t.co/xJhydiSsFp by @andreaprasow via @guardian
— Human Rights Watch (@hrw) May 23, 2014
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On the question of slave reparations, the Chicago Tribune said in 1891: “The account is square with the ex‑slaves.” http://t.co/5h0BIP0CNy
— Matt Farmer (@mifarmer) May 23, 2014
@mifarmer Tribune: “They have been taught to labor . . . and to speak the noble English language instead of some African gibberish.”
— Matt Farmer (@mifarmer) May 23, 2014
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Tie together Coates’ story of “redlining” with the chapters in “Pharaoh” about MLK’s utter defeat at Daley’s hands and you walk away angry.
— paul rinkes (@pr9000) May 24, 2014
Not until reading @TNCposts and “American Pharaoh” did I realize that the city I love was divided as much by one man as by ethnicity.
— paul rinkes (@pr9000) May 24, 2014
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Our media partner reminds you to be #grateful b/c your health insurance rates will *only* increase by 10% this year http://t.co/3x4U5Ercj3
— U.S. Dept. of Fear (@FearDept) May 27, 2014
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#Cubs 1-0 in the Manny Ramirez era.
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) May 26, 2014
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Bernie Brewer wears pants RT @Twins: One week from today begins the home and home series of Twins-Brewers! pic.twitter.com/3ggv959qk6
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) May 27, 2014
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The Beachwood Tip Line: No pants, no service.
Posted on May 27, 2014