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[Link corrected] 'Repugnant' / Big win / High expectations
[Resending to correct a link to the CTA crime story below.]
‘Repugnant.’
Rejecting as a violation of the nation’s constitutional values President Trump’s legal argument that sitting presidents are immune to criminal investigations, a federal judge in New York is ordering the president to
surrender eight years of tax returns to Manhattan’s district attorney
.
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Congress has a second whistleblower—this one with what a lawyer says is
firsthand knowledge of the first whistleblower’s secondhand accounts
.
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A
Politico
reporter recounts
suburban Congressman Sean Casten’s
six hours
of town hall sessions on impeachment
.
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Laura Washington in the
Sun-Times:
Trump’s approach to impeachment is to slow the process down, giving him “
endless opportunities to whip up his adoring supporters
.”
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An ex-Reagan administration official blasts Republicans backing Trump against impeachment: “
It’s like …
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
”
…
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… but, CNN reports, “Trump’s feverish efforts
”
are having some success in
preventing
“
serious slippage
”
of Republican lawmakers’ support
.
(Cartoon: Keith J. Taylor, who merits your vote for Best Comics Illustrator in
the
Reader’s
Best of Chicago poll
.)
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Vox’s
Nicole Hemmer: “Fox News … played a critical role in
luring Trump into committing Nixonian misdeeds
.”
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Jimmy Carter, who at 95 is America’s oldest-ever ex-president, suffered a black eye and 14 stitches after a fall Sunday, but he still showed up last night to
rally Habitat for Humanity volunteers
.
Big win.
Condé Nast Traveler
readers have—for the third year in a row—voted Chicago
the best big city to visit
…
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… but
[link corrected]
beware pickpockets on the CTA
.
(Photo:
Harry Carmichael
in the
Chicago Public Square
Flickr group. Come
join the fun
.)
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The
Sun-Times’
Neil Steinberg compares Illinois’ richest man, Ken Griffin, buying his name onto the Museum of Science and Industry to “
slapping a fresh layer of rouge on the cheeks of a streetwalker
.”
Been there, suffered that.
Veteran City Hall reporter Fran Spielman says the three major strikes Mayor Lightfoot faces mirror
the three faced 40 years ago by Chicago’s first female mayor, Jane Byrne
.
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Cook County assessor Fritz Kaegi, who campaigned on a pledge to clean up government, faces a government reformer’s complaint
he’s not doing it fast enough
.
High expectations.
Three evening public meetings this week will give people a chance to hear about zoning rules in the works for
recreational marijuana’s legalization in Chicago
.
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Here’s
when and where they’ll happen
.
Her time’s here.
Tina Tchen, ex-First Lady Michelle Obama’s former chief of staff, is taking over as
CEO of the anti-sexual harassment organization Time’s Up
.
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She replaces a woman who quit
after her adult son was accused of sexual assault
.
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Tchen has drawn criticism for
her role in the case of evasive actor Jussie Smollett
(March link).
Joker
matters.
Contrary to
several mainstream movie critics
, filmmaker and
sadly accurate political fortune teller
(July link) Michael Moore says the new movie
Joker
raises issues “so profound, so necessary, that if you look away from
the genius of this work of art
, you will miss the gift of the mirror it is offering us.”
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As you encounter accounts of
the movie’s box-office records
, remember those numbers
haven’t been adjusted for inflation
.
Public Narrative is a
Chicago Public Square
advertiser
.
Thanks to reader
Paul Clark
,
first to note an errant link to the CTA pickpocket story above.
—
Charlie Meyerson
,
October 7, 2019
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