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May 31, 2019
The Beachwood Radio Sports Hour #254: Netgate
Excuses exhausted. Plus: Patrick Mannelly Great Ever; The St. Louis Bores; Astros Series Asinine; Defining Darvish Down; Contreras Can't Catch; The Dooche; Justin Verlander Reminds Us He Wanted To Be A Cub; The Cubs' Bill Buckner; White Sox Wild?; Burton's Boo-Boo; Stanley Cup Finals Moves To Nation's Most Boring City; and Why You Should Both Love Steve Kerr And Root For The Raptors.
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SHOW NOTES
* 254.
* Who knew Patrick Mannelly was so great ever.
1:23: Netgate.
* Another Child Is Hit By A Foul Ball, And The Batter Is Devastated.
* Get it done, MLB.
#Cubs general manager Jed Hoyer calls for extending protective netting in ballparks: "There's just no way to react. Our fielders can barely react at times with a hard line drive. To expect a parent or a kid to react ... it's not realistic."https://t.co/C2CJuo8mripic.twitter.com/XBQASqNJEx
— 670 The Score (@670TheScore) May 31, 2019
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Shed Long -- a 23 y/o major league baseball player, in peak physical condition, wearing a glove, 175 ft from home plate -- didn't play this cleanly & was left shaking his hand in pain.
— Levi Weaver (@ThreeTwoEephus) May 30, 2019
But tell me again how grandma in section 119 just needs to "pay closer attention to the game" pic.twitter.com/8NuYtMQbKh
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Author @StephenKing lamenting new safety netting at Fenway Park in 2016 @BostonGlobe op-ed: "I understand the Red Sox bear some responsibility, but I also accept my responsibility to take care of myself -- to the best of my ability -- when I'm at the ballpark."
— Nick Francona (@NickFrancona) May 31, 2019
Also @StephenKing: pic.twitter.com/0MgGYdQy4Y
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There are so many bad + dishonest arguments against extended netting, but I *really* dislike the one that this is a recent problem that could be fixed if people would only get off their phones. This is from 1952, and there are tons of similar stories: pic.twitter.com/71nLdTxf4o
— Emma Baccellieri (@emmabaccellieri) May 30, 2019
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Japan has netting from foul pole to foul pole, it's way past time for that in America.
— Sean Holland (@sth85) May 30, 2019
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10:45: The St. Louis Bores.
* Mark Gonzales actually wrote this - and his editors allowed it to be published:
What's worse, having your city jokingly referred to as being boring?Or having a retooled team with realistic playoff ambitions test your patience during an 8-18 May?
That's the dilemma facing Cardinals fans certain to be invigorated this weekend by the presence of the Cubs and slugger Kris Bryant, who jokingly referred to St. Louis as "boring" during a lighthearted fireside chat with Ryan Dempster at the Cubs Convention in January.
Really?
* St. Louis doesn't even have the Bowling Hall of Fame anymore!
20:23: Astros Series Asinine.
* A week of "three true outcome" baseball.
* Javy Baez's platinum sombrero.
23:38: Defining Darvish Down.
* Stop grading on a sliding scale.
28:14: Contreras Can't Catch.
* No wonder he used to play outfield.
34:34: The Dooche.
* When you call up Jim Adduci, you are missing Ben Zobrist something awful and Ian Happ is nowhere near ready to return to the major leagues. So then you add Carlos Gonzalez.
* And Daniel Descalso has been exposed.
* Weekly Tommy La Stella shout out.
43:54: Reminder: Justin Verlander Wanted To Be A Cub.
* Got Cole Hamels a year later instead.
48:45: The Cubs' Bill Buckner.
* Coffman: "My primary memory of Bill Buckner was of him lashing the ball down the right field line. It was amazing how many of those beautiful line drives one-hopped the wall near the corner. I felt like practically every time I tuned into a Cubs game in the early '80s he was good for a double, and was pleased to confirm that he led the National League in two-baggers in both '81 and '83. I will have a little something to say about the rest of his career later on."
* Rhodes: Media: Bill Buckner Shouldn't Be Defined By The One Play We're Defining Him By.
* Larry David rehabilitates Buck:
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1:00:55: White Sox Wild?
* Coffman: "They're not dead yet!"
* Why Dallas Keuchel perfectly fits the rebuild timeline.
1:07:54:Trey Burton's Boo-Boo.
1:09:15:Stanley Cup Finals Shift To Nation's Most Boring City.
1:10:35: Why You Should Both Love Steve Kerr And Root For The Raptors.
This is fantastic. Read through the thread. Great stuff.. https://t.co/DwaqibWjSJ
— Steve Kerr (@SteveKerr) May 27, 2019
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Plus . . .
steve kerr on raptors fans:
— Yahoo Sports Canada (@YahooCASports) May 31, 2019
"the canadian fans are so nice even when they're harassing us they do it in a polite manner." pic.twitter.com/kGAaBX4BDm
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STOPPAGE: 17:19
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Comments welcome.
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May 30, 2019
The [Thursday] Papers
"Something was wrong with the little girl," NPR Illinois reports.
That was clear by the time she was 10 years old. She raged often and was sometimes sullen. By the time she was 13, she was missing school because her anxiety was so severe. She was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, which is marked by periods of depression and irritability interrupted by extreme highs."We used to refer to her as Jekyll and Hyde before actually we had any idea of anything," said the girl's mother, who we are calling Jane because she has asked that we not use her name or her daughter's.
And when the girl was 14, her parents split up and the family's financial situation meant they were reliant on Medicaid for insurance. For Jane, that meant her daughter was on a waiting list for a year.
For the zillionth time: We ration health care in this country - to those who can afford it. And the more you can afford, the better care you get. It's that simple. And that immoral.
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"The only way we did get her to see the doctor . . . we had to hospitalize her and she was the doctor on staff at the hospital. So we kind of got in the back door that way. The caseload is just so high," said Jane, who lives in Lake County. "There's just no doctors, there's no psychiatrists for children that take Medicaid."
I've gone years trying to find a therapist in Chicago who takes Medicaid, and I'm (theoretically) and adult.
But my god . . . children? At least I can self-medicate with Old Style and a well-curated record collection. Straight out heartless.
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"The family is hardly alone. About half the children in Illinois are on Medicaid.
"About 850,000 children will experience mental health conditions across Illinois and its access to care can be extremely challenging. We have a psychiatrist workforce shortage, which is a national, as well as local shortage. And oftentimes, treatment is simply out of reach,'' said Heather O'Donnell, who is senior vice president of advocacy and public policy for Thresholds, a statewide mental health service provider."In Illinois, we have children that are psychiatrically hospitalized, and then they don't have placements. Whether it's for outpatient treatment, or residential treatment, there oftentimes is not the availability of services," she said.
The result is growing suicide rates and increased rates of drug and alcohol abuse. "Often, people turn to drugs and alcohol to self-medicate untreated mental health conditions,'' she said.
Like I said.
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"'The consequences of these conditions are substantial,' said Dr. John Walkup, who is head of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago.
Walkup said the vast majority of mental health conditions - 75% to 80% - begin prior to age 18. He points to a recent study that showed about 20 percent of Illinois children have an active mental health problem and slightly over half of them have ever been in treatment."So about a half of the young people who have mental health problems in the state of Illinois don't get access to care, and we know that the vast majority of mental health problems have very good treatments."
That's a lot of unaddressed pain out there.
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"Sara Moscato Howe, CEO of the Illinois Association for Behavioral Health, says the mental health services in general have suffered from a lack of funding for many years.
"We can talk about the suicide crisis that's escalating, we could talk about the opioid epidemic - there's all kinds of things we are happy to talk about in a public hearing. When you get behind closed doors, and you develop a budget, your priorities come out. And for the last 10 to 15 years, we have not been a priority in this state,'' she said.
That is the cold, hard truth.
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Where Are The Asian Pols?
"Asians make up about 7% of Chicago's population and 5% of Illinois' population, but they are now the fastest-growing demographic in the city, state and the U.S.," WBEZ reports.
"While more Asian Americans are running for office locally and in the state, the community is still underrepresented on all levels of government. For instance, there are none serving in the Chicago City Council, now that Ameya Pawar, the city's only Asian American alderman, stepped down after eight years leading the 47th Ward."
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Reminder: Our very own Kiljoong Kim wrote There Are No Asian-American Aldermen Here in 2006.
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ChicagoReddit
Is there a Toronto bar in Chicago? from r/chicago
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ChicagoGram
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ChicagoTube
Charles Norman Quintet - Little Joe From Chicago (1952)
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BeachBook
Stuck Inside Of Bakersfield With The Wienermobile Blues Again.
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UIC To Offer In-State Tuition To Students From Any Of The 573 Tribal Nations In The U.S.
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Meet The Security Company Building An International Database Of Banned Bargoers.
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Watchdog Group Sues Walmart For Selling "Nonsense" Homeopathic Remedies.
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New Louisiana Abortion Law Requires Fetuses Be Given Jazz Funeral March Through The French Quarter.
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Illinois Prison Removes More Than 200 Books From Its Library.
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TweetWood
A sampling.
The only thing that would have made Lori Lightfoot better at council yesterday would have been if she said, like David Byrne at the end of Stop Making Sense, "Does anybody have any questions?" and then traipsed off, triumphant.
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) May 30, 2019
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He didn't explain his findings, he repeated them. https://t.co/cmZWhB1te3
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) May 30, 2019
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Both sidesing the shit out of it.
To believe the idea that Trump supporters *sincerely* heard "Case closed" is as naive as believing Mitch McConnell sincerely thought the American people should have "decided" the next SCOTUS judge instead of Barack Obama when he nominated Merrick Garland. My god. pic.twitter.com/qE0B7ewWov
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) May 30, 2019
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Isn't lying a violation of the Navy's honor code? https://t.co/BB91fGGpYf
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) May 30, 2019
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Has Washington read the report? https://t.co/05FS4Vlq8R
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) May 30, 2019
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50 percent of doctors finished in the bottom half of their class.
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) May 30, 2019
Alternate: Uber Announces Contest To Determine Uber Uber Driver. https://t.co/P1VEluGA4w
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Please don't call articles "jams" either. They are neither "jams" nor "joints." https://t.co/LUcDYw28YN
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) May 30, 2019
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I pored over "Subway Art" back in the day, mesmerized. https://t.co/lNonKxS4Ma
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) May 30, 2019
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Remember, the same media outlets that lionized Rahm Emanuel (and Ricahrd M. Daley, fwiw) and hired Emanuel as a "contributor" are the same media outlets making judgements about the news. Think about that.
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) May 30, 2019
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The Beachwood McRibTipLine: One side: the truth.
Posted by Beachwood Reporter at 12:59 AM | Permalink
May 29, 2019
The [Wednesday] Papers
Lori Lightfoot had a good day today.
Not so much Alds. Ed Burke, Patrick Daley Thompson and Ray Lopez, nor Robert Mueller and Donald Trump.
Let's take a look.
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Leading a city council meeting for the first time, Lightfoot at times had a bit of nervous shake in her voice, and received the requisite parliamentary assistance when needed, but overall demonstrated that times have changed in Chicago.
First, she put Ed Burke in his place.
I mean, his place is a prison cell, but figuratively speaking:
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Never thought I'd see the day when the mayor would tell Alderman Ed Burke "we're moving on" as he rises to complain, then she tells Burke later to basically sit down as he tries a 2nd time to complain about the NEW RULES @ChiCouncil#newday#Chicago@chicagosmayor
— Mary Ann Ahern (@MaryAnnAhernNBC) May 29, 2019
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Or, as I put it:
Will the indicted alderman please shut up.#CityCouncil#Chicago
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) May 29, 2019
I wish I would've tweeted it like this, though:
Would the indicted former chair of the finance committee please shut up.
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Burke's complaint? That several passages of the new rules up for council approval referred to he and him instead of using gender-neutral language.
On one hand, maybe he has a point? On the other hand, Lighfoot, in prosecutorial manner that affirmed that Burke was a lawyer and a member of the council for 50 years, pointed out that the terms he/his (or she/hers) applies under the law to all genders.
In post-meeting press conference, @chicagosmayor notes: "Apparently Ald. Burke has forgotten that I'm a 30-year trial lawyer."
— Gregory Pratt (@royalpratt) May 29, 2019
Also after the meeting, Lightfoot told the media that Burke's objection was clearly a stunt to test her, and that "The notion that Ed Burke is a champion of women's rights is laughable."
Via WGN-TV:
"Alderman Burke is somebody who likes to test people. He likes to see if there are weaknesses. He has attempted to do this in the past with me, and he's failed spectacularly every time. And every time he tries it, he will again fail spectacularly. I'm not going to start my term as mayor with a City Council putting up with somebody who is just playing games for the sport of it. The people in this city expect us to do our jobs. They expect the government to actually work on behalf of the people and not have a Game of Thrones gamesmanship on the floor of the City Council. I'm not having it."
Lightfoot cited a previous incident she had with Burke when she led the police board; she was appearing before the council on a budget matter when Burke attempted to use her as a "foil" for the inspector general. Then, too, she said, he "failed spectacularly."
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Meanwhile, Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson repeatedly moved to reconsider on a series of votes establishing the new council and its committee chairmanship assignments despite Lightfoot having the votes to win each motion each time. All reconsideration did was show Thompson to be a childish Burke ally trying futilely to derail Lightfoot while the new mayor got the opportunity each time to proclaim, "The motion to reconsider fails" as each reconsideration vote was the same as the original: a win for Lightfoot.
"we were interrupted by Alderman Burke's soliloquy," Lightfoot says, giving the floor back to Harris.
— Claudia Morell (@claudiamorell) May 29, 2019
Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson tries to re-consider the vote. It's shot down.
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At one point, Ald. Ray Lopez rose to attack Lightfoot for a relative lack of Latino representation among the new committee chairs, and to complain that the new mayor wasn't listening to aldermen's concerns.
Committee assignments now up for voice vote. Ald Ray Lopez (15th) rises to complain about shortage of Hispanic chairmen . He accuses Lightfoot of drafting plan in a silo and says it's not good government and is a bad way to start.
— Fran Spielman (@fspielman) May 29, 2019
Bear in mind, Lopez left the council's Latino Caucus in April because caucus members worked against his re-election.
So maybe not in a great position to speak of Latinos in the council nor where other aldermen's heads where at - which isn't to say he might not have a point about Lightfoot's Latino representation. It's to say he probably cares about as much as Burke cares about gender-neutral language.
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Another sign that times have changed:
Lightfoot is seated on the rostrum listening to public comment. Emanuel rarely (if ever) sat during a City Council meeting, and typically spent most of the 30-minute public comment period chatting with aldermen and his cabinet.
— The Daily Line (@thedailylinechi) May 29, 2019
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Mueller and Trump? Check out @BeachwoodReport for my commentary on today's events, but you can also entry the fray with this thread if you want:
Robert Mueller is doing this country a great, and historic, disservice in resisting appearing before Congress to answer simple questions like, "What did you mean by that?"
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) May 29, 2019
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And then move on to this one:
Here's another question I've raised before: Would Mueller have been able to indict the president if he was an Independent Counsel working under a judicial panel like we used to have rather than a Special Counsel working under DOJ and the AG?
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) May 29, 2019
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Also:
Robert Mueller also issues impeachment referral to Riot Fest. https://t.co/vx9TszHt80
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) May 29, 2019
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New on the Beachwood . . .
CEO Looting Spree Unabated
New York Times and AP join Bloomberg in finding executive compensation 'out of control' with no link to performance or logic outside of pure greed.
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Stan Mikita Hockey School For Deaf Back For Another Year
"The school does not charge fees for athletes to attend its hockey school, all expenses incurred by the team or players (ice, time, lodging, equipment, etc.) are paid by the organization."
June, in Bensenville.
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Ten Years Of The Modern Wing
Take a video stroll through it, learn its secrets, and read the Yelp reviews.
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Chicago House Music Festival
Highlights.
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Illinois' Lost Capital
The ghost village of Kaskaskia.
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24 Hours With CAN TV19
From jazz jams to the Black Panthers.
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ChicagoReddit
187 animals are arriving at The Anti-Cruelty Society on Friday from Oklahoma as a result of the severe storms and flooding. Interested in fostering? 4-6 week commitment. from r/chicago
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ChicagoGram
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ChicagoTube
"At 114-years-old, this Bronzeville neighborhood jazz club is the oldest hardwood dance floor in Chicago. Nat King Cole and a list of other jazz musicians performed at THE FORUM in the past. It also held important civil and labor rights meetings. It is a Historic Landmark, tryin' to be preserved by; #Urbanjuncture.com/the-forum/.
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BeachBook
97-Year-Old Grandpa Saves Village By Painting The Whole Town In Colorful Art.
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TweetWood
A sampling.
Breaking: The President of the United States has NOTHING against Roy Moore. https://t.co/65Dt4Eb0YV
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) May 29, 2019
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Exclusive: Long before Ethiopian Air's Boeing 737 Max crash, one of the airline's pilots had warned more training and better communication was needed via @RyanBBeene@japanizarhttps://t.co/PyopgpCXe0 via @business
— Flynn McRoberts (@flynnmcroberts) May 29, 2019
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The Beachwood McRibTipLine: Throw a dart.
Posted by Beachwood Reporter at 2:28 PM | Permalink
May 28, 2019
Chicago House Music Festival 2019
Last weekend at Millennium Park.
1. Video Recap.
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2. Twerk.
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3. Rae Chardonnay.
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4. Jevon Jackson.
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5. Gant-Man.
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Comments welcome.
Posted by Beachwood Reporter at 4:41 PM | Permalink
24 Hours With CAN TV19
Midnight: Universal Alley Jazz Jam
1 a.m.: Community News & Information
7 a.m.: Democracy Now!
8 a.m.: Black Panther Party
10 a.m.: 31st Annual Black Nurses Day
Noon: Full Circle TV Show
1 p.m.: Higher Learning Network TV Show
1:30 p.m.: PAN-TV
2:30 p.m.: Sip of Inspiration
3:30 p.m.: ChatterBox
4 p.m.: Stephen Patterson Presents
5 p.m.: MBI UNIA Ladies Day
6 p.m.: Elma & Company
7 p.m.: Adventures in Scuba Diving
7:30 p.m.: Team Chicago Challenge
8 p.m.: The Zaboka Show
9 p.m. The Chundria Show
9:30 p.m.: Omnibus Roundtable
10 p.m.: Star Performer Showcase
11 p.m.: Marcus Mixx on TV
11:30 p.m.: Divas Cabaret
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* 24 Hours With Lakeshore TV.
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Comments welcome.
Posted by Beachwood Reporter at 4:26 PM | Permalink
The [Tuesday] Papers
"At least 37 people were shot, five fatally, throughout Chicago on Memorial Day weekend as severe storms kept people indoors for the holiday and 1,200 officers were added to patrol the streets," the Tribunereports.
In addition to extra patrols, Chicago police leading up to the weekend made numerous narcotic-related arrests in targeted raids in different parts of the city.Following a Monday ceremony at a Grant Park monument to commemorate the nation's war dead, Mayor Lori Lightfoot told reporters that she rode with officers Saturday night and responded with them to a shooting on the South Side. She also spoke of the frequency in which she receives emailed notifications on shootings.
"That is just an unacceptable state of affairs," the new mayor said. "I think there's many causes to it. I certainly knew that before but to see it graphically depicted is quite shocking and says that we've got a long way to go as a city.
"This is not a law enforcement-only challenge. It's a challenge for all of us in city government. It's a challenge for us in communities to dig down deeper and ask ourselves what we can do to step up to stem the violence."
Not to bag on Lightfoot, who just took office last week, but the city - just like the nation and the world - has accepted this "unacceptable" state of affairs forever. That kind of rhetoric may seem politically necessary, but it always bugs me. If this was a truly unacceptable state of affairs, city leaders would have matched their rhetoric of urgency with interventions of urgency a long time ago. One result of not doing so is to make what the newspapers call weekend "mayhem" routine. 'Here comes the holiday weekend, let's track all the shootings!' The word "normalization" comes to mind.
Not that there are easy, urgent answers just sitting out there. But massive neighborhood investment, integrated with essentially turning the city's budget upside down, to balance screaming inequities has never really been tried. Now it's Lightfoot's turn - and time for us to see what she's made of.
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"Arguably the best thing about Chicago's new mayor is that Lori Lightfoot seems to really get the link between gang-fueled street violence and lack of economic opportunity," Greg Hinz writes for Crain's.
"As mayor, her task in large part is to bring relief ('wraparound services and job training') to neighborhoods that 'are under siege and economically distressed,' Lightfoot told CBS This Morning a few days ago - treating 'the root causes of the violence.' In other words, a young adult who has a job and feels good about himself or herself is a lot more likely to succeed in life than someone who has given up and sees gangs as the only out.
"Lightfoot is on to something."
What's amazing - and distressing - about this report is the notion that mayors (and other civic leaders, including journalists) have not previously understood that link. That link is something that's been understood to many experts in the field, as well as experts on the streets, for just about ever. The idea that "Lightfoot is on to something" is sadly laughable; it doesn't take any kind of special insight particular to the new mayor to get it.
My worry is that her vision stops at wraparound services and job training. That's been tried, although perhaps not in a massive way. We need a much larger vision of equitable economic development that includes megaprojects - the Peotone airport, for example - tied to affordable housing and desegregation to really break the pattern. That last one is the one where Lightfoot may have particular insight. Lightfoot has spoken about the visceral lessons she learned about the deep realities of the city's racism, for example, in leading Rahm Emanuel's police reform task force. It all ties together, and that's where the hope in Lori Lightfoot resides, not just the usual bromides and half-hearted, though well-intentioned small-bore prescriptions.
The rest of Hinz's column is a plea for Lightfoot to heed the call of private developers who favor downtown investment. In other words, a plea for status quo, supply-side thinking: Invest more in downtown (and North Side neighborhoods) to attract businesses and then, um, figure out a way to get poor black folk on the South Side to jobs there.
He does flick at the notion of public infrastructure - train stations and the like - in poor neighborhoods that may draw businesses there. That's not gonna work. If the city is going to make economic development in our most distressed neighborhoods come true, it has to sway the next George Lucas to put his or her museum in Bronzeville; the next Lincoln Yards on the U.S. Steel site; the next zillion billion dollar O'Hare expansion to take place in the south suburbs. As much as Rahm Emanuel liked to portray himself as a tough mayor making big moves, his big ideas had nothing to do with economic development - the largest set of school closings in U.S. history, an infrastructure trust, a fantastical tunnel system to O'Hare. When it came to economic development, he played the downtown supply side strategy to a "T" just like nearly every mayor before him (exception: Harold Washington), to the same results. And here we are. Isn't it finally time for something new? Something as big as Chicago's self-identity?
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I mean, the headline on Hinz's piece is "Lightfoot Must Help The Loop To Lift Neighborhoods."
Where do you even start with that? What a bold new strategy! I wonder if it will work?! Let's finally try it!
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If it was just Hinz saying this, I would ignore it. (Well, maybe.) But he's giving voice to forces in the city (like the mega-developer he quotes) who will bring great pressure to bear on Lightfoot to maintain the downtown-first policies of her predecessors under the age-old guise of having the interests of the neighborhoods in first and foremost in mind. This will be Lightfoot's biggest challenge, and the area where we are most likely to see crushing disappointment.
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I wrote during the campaign that the biggest thing missing among all the candidates was anyone expressing an imaginative economic development vision. (Paul Vallas had a lot of seemingly great ideas at the bureaucratic level that could yield significant results, but which need to be paired with the macro to really transform the city.) That is perhaps where Lightfoot is most vulnerable to failure. At least she'd have a lot of company.
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Hoodie Winked
"Students at Uplift Community High School in this city's Uptown neighborhood overturned a hated rule that banned hoodie sweaters on their campus," People's Worldreports.
"Their victory came as a result of their 'Hoodies, Harmless or Hated' campaign. The campaign was just one of scores of civic activism projects that high schoolers throughout Chicago have been working on all year under the guidance of the Mikva Challenge, a not-for-profit program encouraging youth participation in civic and political life."
For more Mikva problem-solving, see City's Youth Solves Problems.
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New on the Beachwood . . .
The Beachwood Radio Sports Hour #253: Memorial Day Weekend State Of The Cubs, White Sox & Bears
Tales of regress, progress and egress. Including: Jim Coffman Not Here For Ben Zobrist's Divorce; Addy Is Baddy; Another Sullivan Special; Old School Cubs Lack Velocity; How Albert Almora Jr. Turned His Season Around; Salt's Sinker; So You're Saying The White Sox Have A Chance; and Bears Carousel.
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The Rebuild Not Taken
Envying the Twins' way. In The White Sox Report.
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Beautiful Bill Buckner
He was a great Cub and had a great, great career in baseball. Full stop.
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ChicagoReddit
Courthouse downtown for marriages from r/chicago
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ChicagoGram
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ChicagoTube
Chinese American Museum of Chicago Annual Gala.
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BeachBook
Abortion Ban Coverage Sows Confusion.
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That Time Trump Sold The Plaza Hotel At An $83 Million Loss.
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Comcast Fights Shareholder Call For Lobbying Transparency, Saying That It Would Be "Burdensome" To Reveal How Much It Spends Lobbying States.
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The Bitter Life Of A Shattered Jockey: The Mostly True Story Of Evanston-Born Mary Bacon.
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High Tolerance: Wisconsin & Alcohol.
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TweetWood
A sampling.
I love Steve Kerr and the Warriors. And I was pulling for the Bucks, Milwaukee and stuff. But now I'm also a diehard Raptors fan. I wonder if there's work for me in Toronto . . .
This is fantastic. Read through the thread. Great stuff.. https://t.co/DwaqibWjSJ
— Steve Kerr (@SteveKerr) May 27, 2019
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I would've loved to have been a fly on the wall if some executive or agent had asked Gerry to bend or fabricate a story in return for a future scoop. Gerry was devoted to the truth. https://t.co/uBTLKWfGH5
— Buster Olney (@Buster_ESPN) May 25, 2019
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As is evident, most Republicans aren't reading the Mueller Report. https://t.co/W6Hnm07rKC
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) May 25, 2019
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The Beachwood McRibTipLine: Bend it back.
Posted by Beachwood Reporter at 11:48 AM | Permalink
AP, New York Times Studies Show CEO Pay 'Totally Out Of Control'
Two studies released by the executive compensation firm Equilar on Friday revealed that CEOs of some of the wealthiest companies in the U.S. are seeing their pay rise at about twice the rate of the workers who make the day-to-day operations of their businesses run.
The Associated Press commissioned a study of compensation for 340 executives at S&P 500 companies, which revealed that the CEOs earned raises averaging $800,000 in 2018 - a 7 percent increase over the previous year.
Workers would need to work 158 consecutive years to earn what their bosses make in one year, the AP reported.
Pay for CEOs at S&P 500 companies rose to a median of $12M in 2018. And CEO pay continues to spike due to the #TrumpTax plan.
— Kristen Clarke (@KristenClarkeJD) May 24, 2019
About 15M children in the US (21% of all children) - live in families with incomes below the federal poverty threshold.
This is NOT sustainable. https://t.co/KxsOHY99k2
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