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July 3rd: Correct me if I'm wrong---but doesn't Sarah Palin now come off as a "quitter"? I mean, didn't the Alaskans who voted for her think they were electing her for a full term?
Lili
Lili
I listened to her speech. I used to teach speech in high school. It seemed emotional and unorganized to me. Of course, it has been a week for that -- think S. Carolina. It just seems like there is so much more to this resignation than what is being said -- of course, Alaska's financial situation is not pretty -- that could be part of it.
Carol
Carol
I hope she stays in the private sector from now on.
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June 14th, 2009: Just posted video (which you can access below) of yesterday's grand opening of the New Glarus Brewing Company's Hilltop Brewery. Under construction for more than three years, this $20 million, 100,000 barrel/year facility is an architectural and technological wonder...
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June 12, 2009: Gene Saffold, Chicago's CFO, announced at 2pm today that the layoff process had begun for some 1,500 city workers...
Lakisha
Lakisha
i wonder if cookie monster will get fired? lol
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June 12, 2009: If you're looking for a weekend diversion, consider driving up to New Glarus Wisconsin for the public opening of the New Glarus Brewing Company's new Hilltop Brewery. Technologically and architecturally, this is an unbelievable facility. Doors open tomorrow at 10am...
Geoff
Geoff
New Glarus makes some quality beer. Nuff said.
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May 31st: Found a link to this somewhat amusing web video in my inbox this evening. It's from the Illinois Republican Party:
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June 1st, 2009: Yeah---the former first lady has her own website...
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May 28th: Just read that the comedy duo of Frangela (Frances Callier and Angela Shelton) has been tapped for the cast of "Get Me out of Here I'm a Celebrity). They're enormously funny and should be able to reduce Patti Blagojevich to the molecular level in less than forty minutes...
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May 26th, 2009: In the wake of the release of a transcript of a secretly-recorded conversation between Rob Blagojevich, (chief fundraiser for his brother Rod), and Roland Burris (seeking to fill the U.S...
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May 27th, 2009: At no point in his recorded conversation with Rob Blagojevich did Roland Burris indicate what he might be able to do for the people of the state of Illinois---only for the Governor who would appoint him to the senate.
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May 21st, 2009: Patti Blagojevich will be going to Costa Rica to participate in NBC's "reality" show; Blago will participate in some "surprise" fashion, according to the release from B;ago's publicist: Patti and Rod Blagojevich to Take Part in NBC's 'I'm a Celebrity.....
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May 18th: Will the Cook County Commissioners override Todd Stroger's veto of their tax repeal vote? All should be decided at tomorrow's board meeting. How many members of the public will show up to watch their legislators in action...
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I wanted to pass a press release that the FCC sent to me about local walk-in clinics they will be Sears stores...
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May 6th, 2009: One of the many times I interviewed Len Depres (who died today at the age of 101) was August 31st, 2000. I was preparing a labor day piece in which a number of people spoke of their attitudes toward their work. Len ( a mere 82 at the time) was, to be sure, the star of the piece...
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May 3rd, 2009: Given the current H1N1 preoccupation, "Chicago Tonight" will rebroadcast---on Tuesday and Wednesday of this coming week---a "Chicago Stories" piece I put together in 2005 on the 1918 glue epidemic. It killed 8,500 Chicagoans (more than 360 in a single day)...
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