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Journalist; retired Medill assistant prof. Worried I'll move to FL now and become one of the city hall gadflies I once covered in Palm Beach and Tallahassee.

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Joined September 2007
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When I started out in the business, we were discouraged from ever mentioning competing newspapers by name. Now I'm proud to work for @DailyHerald — a paper with the class to publish a list like this, recognizing 40 departed colleagues from @ChicagoTribune.
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Trump's impeachment lawyer steals coasters from the Senate chamber
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He went to the Four Seasons Total Landscaping School of Law.
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Just a thought: If people who have been enslaved, lynched, marginalized, oppressed, unduly jailed and segregated for centuries say something is racist, you know what, my first instinct is to agree with them, not argue.
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A step in the right direction. @chicagotribune’s oppressive and aggressive online ad UI had become downright brutal. We’ll see what difference this makes.
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My statement on the death of George Floyd:
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The new and freshly marked bike/pedestrian flyover at Navy Pier in Chicago opened today and as you can see, it is already a raging success at keeping people in the correct lane. 🤦🏼‍♂️(@chicagotribune photo).
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Because anger and hostility destroy our peace of mind, it is they that are our real enemy. Anger ruins our health; a compassionate attitude restores it. If it were basic human nature to be angry, there’d be no hope, but since it is our nature to be compassionate, there is.
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Nine days without a second of cable news. “Good riddance to bad rubbish.” (Rodman Philbrick)
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Former @chicagotribune chairman and CEO and U-M alum John W. Madigan and his wife Holly recently gifted more than $300,000 to the @michigandaily in honor of @amlwhere, the Tribune’s first female editor and fellow alum. myumi.ch/6jXV3
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Motion to change the name of Cable News Network to Cable Speculation Network. All I favor say aye. All opposed, nay. Motion carries. (Gavel bang).
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Given the never-ending “airing of the grievances,” every day must be Festivus at the White House.
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For months @HowardStern has been teasing a secret project and today he revealed the big news — #HowardSternComesAgain, his first book in more than 20 years, is due out May 14, 2019! Preorder it now: strn.it/r0og9T
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Stop treating sports owners like royalty and/or deities. AND CALL THEM BY THEIR FIRST NAMES! “Mr. Kraft” and the Sports Owner God Complex New column for the @WSJ: wsj.com/articles/mr-kraft-an…
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A little dummy post oopsie in the @apple iPad App Store this morning.
Looks like the first campaign spending for Bernie Sanders was for a comb (finally).