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  • Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 7-25-24: We’re getting too used to gun violence

    Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 7-25-24: We’re getting too used to gun violence
    Jul 25 2024
    Oh, so wild are the politics of campaigning for president. If you’ve had enough of it by now, you might turn your attention to the US Supreme Court and some good news you may be missing. The court has declared it will not rule, or even consider, a request by the national gun lobby to […]
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  • Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 7-18-24: Millennium Park and Campus, a $490 million treat

    Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 7-18-24: Millennium Park and Campus, a $490 million treat
    Jul 18 2024
    The shock and terror of an attempted assassination of Donald Trump and another weekend of gun violence in Chicago. I’m trying to find something good to think and feel about. How about the 20th birthday of Millennium Park, also known as Millennium Campus? It’s been 20 years since it all began and has now become […]
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  • Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 7-11-24: Time to move Chicago’s Pride Parade?

    Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 7-11-24: Time to move Chicago’s Pride Parade?
    Jul 11 2024
    In our windy, wonderful Chicago, the only thing more powerful than a politician is a newspaper. Specifically, the Chicago Tribune being read every day by hundreds of thousands of people. Which means that what the Tribune says matters. A lot. Three days ago, on page one of the Tribune’s opinion section, its columnist Laura Washington, […]
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  • Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 7-4-24: Summertime is trouble time

    Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 7-4-24: Summertime is trouble time
    Jul 4 2024
    Summertime is trouble time and a good time to say “bravo” to a Chicago Alderman trying to prevent trouble. That’s Alderman Brian Hopkins of the 2nd Ward, which includes part of the downtown business district and West Loop, River North, and Streeterville. Hopkins has proposed an 8:00 PM curfew for children under 18 walking those […]
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  • Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 6-27-24: I’m hoping to see and hear if Trump and Biden are healthy and clear-headed

    Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 6-27-24: I’m hoping to see and hear if Trump and Biden are healthy and clear-headed
    Jun 27 2024
    Finally, finally, tonight, the presidential debate live on cable TV, CNN. If you have cable and plan to watch, what are you thinking? What are you hoping to see and to hear? Like millions of people around the world, I’m hoping to see and hear if Trump and Biden are healthy and clear-headed enough to […]
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  • Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 6-20-24: Supreme Court code of ethics seems to be unethical

    Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 6-20-24: Supreme Court code of ethics seems to be unethical
    Jun 20 2024
    The bad news about Justice Clarence Thomas of the US Supreme Court is getting worse with more revelations of Justice Thomas keeping a secret that he has received hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of gifts from a billionaire political donor suspected of buying votes on issues that are, or soon may be, considered by […]
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  • Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 6-13-24: Best wishes and a toast to butterflies!

    Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 6-13-24: Best wishes and a toast to butterflies!
    Jun 13 2024
    For as long as I can remember, the Sunday morning newspapers for me have been an every Sunday must, because in addition to behind-the-scenes politics, there are all kinds of news. Like last Sunday, the news about Harold Terens and Jeanne Swerlin of Florida traveling to France to get married on the 80th anniversary of […]
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  • Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 6-6-24: Please, Ms. Foxx, don’t put restraints on your prosecutors

    Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 6-6-24: Please, Ms. Foxx, don’t put restraints on your prosecutors
    Jun 6 2024
    Heads up, everybody! Heads up! Kim Foxx, the State’s Attorney of Cook County, wants us to know she is instructing prosecutors in her office not to prosecute people who are driving cars that are stopped by police for routine traffic violations, then searched for illegal guns and drugs. She says too many people are stopped […]
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