My kids’ bedtime stories are of the Biblical variety. Just last night, I enjoyed reading to them again about the manna–the sweet-tasting food from the heavens–that God provided to Moses and his beleaguered crew of nomads. It’s the perfect metaphor for some of the assignments that I’ve been fortunate to receive over the years. In […]
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The mass dog wedding that I publicized, I Do, Doggone It!, may have set a record for the most same-sex dog “marriages” on Saturday in downtown Oak Park. However, that is not yet a sanctioned Guinness World Record category. So the 87 total marriages, while certainly one of the biggest in pooch history, fell shy […]
It’s not every day that you invite the President-elect’s daughters to come to a mass dog wedding. But when it comes to a great cause, has a logical link to a pledge that Barack Obama made before the world on Tuesday night, and Sasha and Malia just happen to be in the neighborhood anyway…well, it […]
Here in Cook County, the second-largest county in the nation, there is a population of more than 5 million, which exceeds that of 30 states. It’s a hugely significant place, with Chicago at its epicenter and a County Board President by the name of Todd Stroger. In case you’re not familiar with him, Stroger isn’t […]
A regular staple of transportation media coverage is the Most Dangerous Intersection story. The subject is ripe for the reporter’s picking, with official statistics providing a tally on the number of collisions, injuries and fatalities at a given spot. But today I offer another, more subjective category: Least Peaceful Intersection. In my neighborhood, a top […]