Twitter has been blocking or otherwise impeding links to Substack newsletters, so this page has become my workaround. Picayune Sentinel for 8-24-23 Last week’s winning…
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This is from an item I posted on 8-31-2023 (Picayune Sentinel issue No. 103) Judging from my email inbox, the plaintiffs in the case first reported this…
When the already legendary folk music program “The Midnight Special” hit the 30 year mark back in 1983, I wrote this feature/column for the Tribune:
During a recent guest-hosting stint on WCPT-AM 820, I interviewed Mark Guarino, a Chicago-based producer for ABC’s “Good Morning America” and other shows. He also…
Published Jan 3, 2008 I’m turning 50 next week. So I thought I’d take the opportunity here to list 50 things I’ve learned in 50…
full interview I recently again filled in for afternoon host Joan Esposito on WCPT-AM 820 and again invited on as a guest my good friend…
From my blog, November 2003: I raised a question after a recentTribune editorial griped about “the wussy nature” of a filibuster then taking place in…
From “David Copperfield” by Charles Dickens FROM CHAPTER 23 I CORROBORATE MR.DICK AND CHOOSE A PROFESSION About mid-day, we set out for the office of…
WGN-Ch. 9 news interviewed Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson on Aug. 11, 2020 in the wake of a resurgence of racial unrest. I had the…
Meet Shia Kapos Political news junkies and informed citizens throughout Chicago and Illinois start their day by reading “Illinois Playbook.” It’s a comprehensive political…