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Saturday, July 5, 2025

High-level training

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       My attention was drawn to three jets of water shooting out high atop a building being constructed on Hudson Street in Jersey City. At...
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Friday, July 4, 2025

He's baaaaaaaack!

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                                 John James Audubon's Washington Sea Eagle is a magnificent bird. But there is a problem with it.     I...
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Thursday, July 3, 2025

Old obit week #4: Bill Sennet, 70, `bright star in the neighborhood'

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      Not everybody I wrote an obit about was famous. Some of my favorites were about exceptional-though-unheralded — I almost said "or...
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Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Old obit week #3: TV sportscaster Tim Weigel dies

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      The approach for this obit came about because Tim Weigel was my friend too -- we bonded over our mutual love of cigars, smoked togethe...
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Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Old obit week #2: "Hello Americans" — Paul Harvey dies at 90

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         Fame fleets, and as big a radio broadcaster as Paul Harvey certainly was, his name has faded considerably. I remember him because I...
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Monday, June 30, 2025

Old Obit Week #1 — Bob Hope, "Master of the one-liner, icon of show biz"

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      A writer thinks about structure, and tends to group material thematically. After posting the obituaries of Sun-Times celebrity columni...
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Sunday, June 29, 2025

Flashback 2008: Are we willing to ship out immigrant children en masse?

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     If I were writing a column this week, I might be unable to resist commenting on Trump's ferocious war on immigrants -- setting Amer...
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