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The underlying cause of death in the vast majority of death certificates that mention COVID-19 is the coronavirus. bit.ly/3lzmGGd
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Reinventing the police: The debate over law enforcement reform takes centerstage in Chicago this summer, but rising crime complicates the discussion #CrainsForum chicagobusiness.com/crains-f… via @crainschicago
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As debates continue around police reform, focus can’t just be on big cities. Suburbs also need to be part of the conversation. Latest @BetterGov piece for @CrainsChicago Forum. By @JaredRutecki: bettergov.org/news/police-sh…
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Trump can't salvage his reelection from the Briefing Room, or by conjuring racially charged nightmares of civil unrest. Americans know all too well what their lives look like in 2020. They are in touch with reality, even if their president is not. washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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Listen to Anthony Fauci even if Trump doesn’t. It could be the difference between life and death, @ktumulty writes wapo.st/2Wifa7J
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.@rap30's @SundaySpin had been a Sunday morning tradition, the Chicago/Illinois version of Face the Nation or Meet the Press, but with personality and the matter-of-fact benefit of Rick's singular institutional political knowledge. Sorry to see it go. Tune in for one last time.
The guest lineup for the final edition of the @SundaySpin on WGN Radio will be a roundtable of our favorite contributors: @bobsecter, @brianbernardoni, @EricEElk and @wttw’s @AmandaVinicky. Tune in for a great conversation about what lies ahead in 2020. 5-7pm.
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As public debates "defund the police," @GovPritzker asks if police departments "may not want to hold some of their officers accountable" in internal investigations. @BetterGov @WBEZ found since 2005 no suburban cops disciplined after shootings: projects.bettergov.org/takin…
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As God is my witness I didn't think there was enough kool- aid on the planet for someone to tweet this....
Hard to imagine any other @POTUS having the guts to walk out of the White House like this: @realDonaldTrump
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Fundraising email from Illinois Republican Congressional candidate Jeanne Ives plagiarizes Chicago Tribune story: chicagotribune.com/politics/…
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Trump continues to falsely say that he inherited old bad tests for covid. Those tests could not have existed until this year when the virus sprouted. (He angrily called his female questioner "horrid," as well.)
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It’s difficult to know for sure that @GovPritzker could not have done anything to delay the March 17 election. But experts told us the governor spoke correctly in describing the limits of his powers under existing law. bettergov.org/news/fact-chec…
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Nothing says “I hate political corruption” quite like commuting the sentence of a corrupt Governor of Illinois who went to prison for withholding money from a children’s hospital until they paid him a $50,000 bribe.
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My former boss Patrick Fitzgerald represented his friend James Comey.
He also prosecuted Scooter Libby, Conrad Black, and Rod Blagojevich. All three received pardons or commutations from Trump. That doesn't seem coincidental.
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Oh Lord – at Washington, DC
Bill Barr’s DOJ replaced Catholic Charities with Hookers for Jesus.
Dana @Milbank has the latest: wapo.st/38lxWzd
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Wow, the national archive system is letting ICE destroy records including complaints about civil rights violations and shoddy medical care in detention centers. nytimes.com/2020/02/04/opini…
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.@NPRKelly's interview with @SecPompeo went in a direction we weren't expecting. As described on @npratc: He screamed, swore at her and said she couldn't find Ukraine on a map.
See the transcript for yourself: trib.al/jDeE0Qd
Bob Secter retweeted
"It's more than about us and our jobs. This is about this great city of ours, and this great city of ours needs a great newspaper." Start at 11:25 in this video to see our own @poolcar4 & @garyjmarx advocate for a sustainable future for our newsroom. youtube.com/watch?time_conti…
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The Washington Post and The New York Times have managed to build global audiences. But the national press has not filled the vacuum left in local communities, where more than 2,100 papers have vanished since 2004, write @poolcar4 and @garyjmarx. nyti.ms/30ABqdQ
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"Everything about Jordan reeks of a man willing to cast aside common decency and fairness in service of a corrupt and cruel president. He may be the most unfit man to ever represent part of Greater Cleveland in Congress." cleveland.com/opinion/2019/1…
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Thank you to @EditorPublisher for recognizing two BGA investigations!bettergov.org/news/bga-stori…