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Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 7-11-24: Time to move Chicago’s Pride Parade?
Walter Jacobson's Perspective - July 11, 2024 17:58 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn 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 se...
Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 7-4-24: Summertime is trouble time
Walter Jacobson's Perspective - July 04, 2024 15:00 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSummertime 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...
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 - June 27, 2024 16:15 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFinally, 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...
Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 6-20-24: Supreme Court code of ethics seems to be unethical
Walter Jacobson's Perspective - June 20, 2024 19:35 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe 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 so...
Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 6-13-24: Best wishes and a toast to butterflies!
Walter Jacobson's Perspective - June 13, 2024 16:14 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFor 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 th...
Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 6-6-24: Please, Ms. Foxx, don’t put restraints on your prosecutors
Walter Jacobson's Perspective - June 06, 2024 15:00 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHeads 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 to...
Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 5-30-24: An honor so well-deserved for Jesse White
Walter Jacobson's Perspective - May 30, 2024 17:13 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingLike so many people, I am glued to news about Donald Trump. But right now I’m thinking about a famous political person here in Illinois who is every bit as well-known as Trump because he was for so many years our Secretary of State. Of course, I’m thinking about Jesse White, whose name and no […]
Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 5-23-24: The Chicago Bears are wasting no time at all to cash in on Caleb Williams
Walter Jacobson's Perspective - May 23, 2024 20:45 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIt’s not a surprise, not at all a surprise, that the Chicago Bears are wasting no time at all to cash in on Caleb Williams, the recently-drafted college superstar quarterback Caleb Williams. The Bears owners and managers in Halas Hall appear to be charging the cost of hiring Caleb Williams to Bea...
Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 5-16-24: For the Boy Scouts of America, it’s about time to change
Walter Jacobson's Perspective - May 16, 2024 17:46 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThere’s big news being made by the Boy Scouts of America, changing their name from Boy Scouts of America to Scouting of America, a change halting a treasured tradition of more than 100 years calling that group of elite young men the Boy Scouts of America. I never made it to the Boy Scouts, but […]
Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 5-9-24: It is safe to speculate the Bears will change their plan or give up on a lakefront stadium
Walter Jacobson's Perspective - May 09, 2024 18:20 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThere are so many ups and downs in the news about the Chicago Bears. Good news about the Bears drafting a superstar college quarterback and a superstar college wide receiver. Very good news. But, for the Bears, there’s bad news about their plans to build a $4,700,000,000 stadium on Chicago’s belo...
Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 5-2-24: How much more money do the billionaire Cubs owners need?
Walter Jacobson's Perspective - May 02, 2024 19:22 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe NFL Draft being done, the football fuss is winding down, so let’s talk baseball. My thoughts are on the Cubs because I forever have been a Cubs fan. I’m a little guy, about 5’5” and 140 lbs, but a very big Cubs fan. In fact, 72 years ago, when I was 15 years old, […]
Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 4-25-24: A new day with a new quarterback is about to arrive
Walter Jacobson's Perspective - April 25, 2024 18:07 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn the wild world of professional sports, for many months now in Chicago, thousands, possibly millions, of eyes and ears have been waiting to know what will happen in the National Football League, the NFL Draft, that begins tonight at 7:00 in which our Bear Down, Chicago Bears are expected to cho...
Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 4-18-24: I’m learning a lot about Taylor Swift’s skill at making herself world-famous
Walter Jacobson's Perspective - April 18, 2024 15:00 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingI don’t know very much about the songs of Taylor Swift. But I’m learning a lot about her skill at making herself world-famous. My latest lesson is right now, right here in Chicago, a short walk from where I live. It’s in River North on Grand Avenue at Dearborn, a great big mural of a […]
Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 4-11-24: I’m among the people who oppose an elected school board
Walter Jacobson's Perspective - April 11, 2024 18:01 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHey there, everybody, heads up! The campaigns for membership on Chicago’s first-ever publicly-elected Board of Education are now underway. Dozens of political newbies are declaring or planning to declare their intentions to take control of the education of a quarter of a million children in our p...
Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 4-4-24: A new Bears stadium with a roof! Yes, yes, a roof!
Walter Jacobson's Perspective - April 04, 2024 19:15 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIt’s been almost a month now since the Chicago Bears came up with a new idea about where they want to play football and where they want us to watch them play. The Bears are planning to build themselves and us another new stadium. Not way, way away in Arlington Heights, but in the city, […]
Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 3-28-24: Companies admitting wrongdoing – there’s something wrong with it all
Walter Jacobson's Perspective - March 28, 2024 20:07 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThose always-relentless tough guy federal prosecutors are now in tough pursuit of Apple. Oh, not the apple my mother told me to eat once a day to keep the doctor away, but the Apple Company that’s worth nearly $3 trillion and is one of the most famously profitable companies in the world. The US D...
Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 3-21-24: City Hall decisions swayed for sure and forever by politics
Walter Jacobson's Perspective - March 21, 2024 21:41 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIt’s for sure and forever in Chicago that the biggest decisions being made in City Hall are swayed by politics. Like the recent decision by Mayor Johnson to evict thousands of migrants who’ve been living in city shelters for 60 days or more. That is a problem. Where do evicted migrants go? How mu...
Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 3-14-24: A magnificent rehab planned for Chase Tower
Walter Jacobson's Perspective - March 14, 2024 16:51 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThere is a big smile on my face this morning because I have something good to say about big business in Chicago. Specifically the JPMorgan Chase big banking business in a 60-story skyscraper on South Dearborn St., two blocks west of the Art Institute, best known as the Morgan Chase Office Tower. ...
Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 3-7-24: Kamala Harris is up to the job of Vice President
Walter Jacobson's Perspective - March 07, 2024 16:00 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn presidential politics, this week is prime time. Two days ago, on Super Tuesday, 15 states voted in party primaries. And tonight, during a joint session of the Congress, President Biden will deliver a State of the Union address, painting a pretty picture of his three years in office. How fine a...
Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 2-29-24: Mayor Johnson should hire politically savvy advisors
Walter Jacobson's Perspective - February 29, 2024 21:00 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe heat on Mayor Brandon Johnson is more heat than any heat on any Chicago mayor in the past nearly 80 years. Two Mayor Daleys, one Mayor Bilandic, one Mayor Byrne, one Sawyer, one Emanuel, one Lightfoot. Those mayors were, as Mayor Johnson now is, off and on, in some kind of trouble. For some […]
Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 2-22-24: We need tougher gun control laws
Walter Jacobson's Perspective - February 22, 2024 17:04 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingLast week, one day after the Super Bowl, during a public celebration in Kansas City, MO, a mother of two was shot dead, 22 other people wounded, in yet another mass shooting. While on that same day, the Illinois Rifle Association asked the US Supreme Court to abolish our gun control law that proh...
Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 2-15-24: Vice President Swift?
Walter Jacobson's Perspective - February 15, 2024 20:40 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDid I see the Sunday Super Bowl. Of course I did. I was glued to it, all of it, before, during and after the game. Did I look for Taylor Swift? Of course I did that too, because Taylor Swift is being described by mass media as the most famous person in the world. Taylor […]
Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 2-8-24: Don’t take police out of public schools
Walter Jacobson's Perspective - February 08, 2024 20:30 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThere is a new headache bugging Chicago’s headstrong Mayor Brandon Johnson, caused by newspaper headlines about a public opinion poll on how Mayor Johnson’s doing in his new job. According to the poll, not very well. Only 21% of 500 registered voters in Chicago approve of how Johnson’s doing. Nea...
Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 2-1-24: I miss my corner grocery store
Walter Jacobson's Perspective - February 01, 2024 16:00 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingI am lonesome, so lonesome. I miss my corner grocery store, and my neighbors miss it too. Our store. It’s been gone now for three months, wiped off the corner by one of those real estate money wars being waged on the Near North Side of Chicago. Many of my neighbors and I are senior […]
Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 1-25-24: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is a bad, bad guy
Walter Jacobson's Perspective - January 25, 2024 16:00 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe migrant problem in Chicago is bad, bad, bad. And the Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, is making it worse, worse. Day-by-day, by bus and airplane, Governor Abbott has been sending migrants from the Mexico-Texas border to Chicago, and he’s promising to continue sending them until, he says, Presi...
Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 1-18-24: Hunter Biden and private testimony
Walter Jacobson's Perspective - January 18, 2024 16:00 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIt’s not easy for me to think of something positive to say about Hunter Biden, President Biden’s son, because he’s been indicted by a federal grand jury on criminal charges involving tax evasion. It’s also not easy because Hunter Biden is defying a Congressional subpoena to testify during an impe...
Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 1-11-24: The Senate dress code is important
Walter Jacobson's Perspective - January 11, 2024 21:10 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe Great Wardrobe Debate in the United States Senate has ended, or at least for now it’s ended. But it will be back because it is an endless debate what a Senator should wear while on the floor of the Senate. If you missed the most recent wardrobe debate, you may not know that it […]
Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 1-4-24: Have you been reading the news about Dorothy Jean Tillman?
Walter Jacobson's Perspective - January 04, 2024 16:00 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHave you been reading the news about Dorothy Jean Tillman? If not, you’re missing a story not to be missed. A really wonderful story. Dorothy Jean Tillman is a granddaughter of a former Chicago alderwoman. Dorothy Jean is 17-years-old, of the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side. I’ve been ...
Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 12-28-23: Rudy Giuliani is getting what he deserves
Walter Jacobson's Perspective - December 28, 2023 16:00 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHe’s getting what he deserves, that once-upon-a-time good guy who is now a bad guy. Rudy Giuliani, a former federal prosecutor and mayor of New York ordered by a federal court to pay $148 million to two women, a mother and daughter, election workers in the 2020 Trump vs. Biden race in Georgia. Ru...
Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 12-21-23: Cheers for gag-ordering
Walter Jacobson's Perspective - December 21, 2023 16:00 ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn the courtroom trials of former President Donald Trump, those two very well-known words “gag” and “order” are being heard and read as one word: “gag-order.” Trump is accused by federal prosecutors of election interference and accused by judges of trying to sway jurors. While in Chicago, there’...
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