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Saturday, October 14, 2017

Obit Week #3: "The conscience of the council—Leon Despres

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       With the Society of Professional Obituary Writers in town for their annual convention this weekend, I thought I would reprint a few o...
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Friday, October 13, 2017

Trump's NFL protest stand immoral, un-American

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[      The Barnett sisters  Donald Trump might think that he is the law, that his will dictates what Americans can say or do. He mig...
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Thursday, October 12, 2017

Obit Week #2: Harry Caray—Baseball's joyful elder cheerleader

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      The Society of Professional Obituary Writers is having their annual convention in Evanston this weekend, and to mark the occasion, I...
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Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Mike Ditka is not a Chicagoan

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     When someone denies the real pain of another, there’s always a selfish reason. Maybe, like right-wing radio hosts claiming the Sand...
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Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Obit week #1: Ronald Reagan: "From movie star to political star"

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     The Society of Professional Obituary Writers is holding its fifth annual conference—"ObitCon 2017—in Evanston this weekend. I h...
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Monday, October 9, 2017

After Cook County scraps soda tax, try a tax on deceit

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       When ordinary politicians lie, and the lie blows up in their faces, do they shake their fists to the sky and exclaim, "But it...
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Sunday, October 8, 2017

Sixty-four thousand

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Drug users, Lower Wacker Drive, December, 2016       64,000.       You aren't supposed to start a sentence with a number, never ...
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