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Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Rare bird.

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     Warm weather drew my wife and me to the Chicago Botanic Garden both Saturday and Sunday, and we were rewarded with an abundance of new ...
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Monday, April 11, 2022

Are Columbus statues a free speech issue?

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     The First Amendment saved America. So far, anyway. In a totalitarian state like Russia, free speech is first to vanish in any crisis. W...
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Sunday, April 10, 2022

Lee Flaherty, promoter of Chicago Marathon, Rolls Royce, himself, dead at 90

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Lee Flaherty      Runners had a seedy reputation in the mid-1970s. At least among old guard gatekeepers like Chicago Park District Supt. Ed ...
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Saturday, April 9, 2022

Wilmette Notes: Something’s in the air. A malevolent stealth variant for one.

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      So I went to an art show opening in Pilsen Thursday night. Nobody asked for proof of vaccination. Only a few people wore masks. I wasn...
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Friday, April 8, 2022

‘Nothing without integrity’

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Sam Mendenhall     “Exclusive video,” Fox 32 News promised a few days ago, “shows ex-’Empire’ actor’s first moments in Cook County Jail.”   ...
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Thursday, April 7, 2022

Flashback 2009: Don’t be frightened, it’s just a book

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     Republicans across the country, in their junkie scramble to find somebody to consider themselves better than, are assailing books that ...
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Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Russian lies mirror our own

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     Why are liars so bad at lying?      When the grisly images of atrocity started coming out of Bucha — the mass graves, the civilians wi...
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