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Happy Thursday, Illinois. The talk in my house is about baseball. The Cubs won, the Sox were snowed out, and the A s are on a winning streak.
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It sure felt like old times yesterday. The City Council met in person, the mayor muted council members’ microphones, and Ald.
You gotta love Chicago politics. Though it seemed strategic that the U.S. Attorney’s court motion would go public midway through a City Council meeting (drama!), the court calendar shows the documents were scheduled for release this week. They were supposed to have gone public Monday, but it took extra time for the feds to redact much of the information. The filing is 227 pages.
Philip Berk, who served eight terms as president of the Golden Globes organization, shared a post on Sunday that called Black Lives Matter a “racist hate movement” and described its co-founder Patrisse Cullors as “the self-proclaimed ‘trained Marxist.’”
• Jan 15, 2019
Twenty-three-year-old jazz pianist James Francies has his musical fingerprints all over the place. From leading his own group at 2019 sWinter Jazzfest in New York City to playing shows in Tokyo with guitar legend Pat Metheny, the current pace of Francies s life is constantly in motion. It just feels like you re on a plane, Francies says. Four thousand feet, traveling six hundred miles an hour.
Last fall, Blue Note Records released
Flight, Francies s debut album.
MPR News hires NBC s Sarah Glover as new managing editor
The experienced journalist was the first to serve two terms as president of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ).
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MPR News has announce a major hire for its newsroom, announcing Sarah Glover as its new managing editor.
Sarah Glover, who has 23 years of experience in local journalism, is joining the public news organization from NBC Owned Television Stations based at 30 Rock in New York, where she was the manager of social media strategy for 12 NBC locally-owned TV station brands, as well as providing strategic support to more than 35 Telemundo Local stations.
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