If Rich will indulge me, I would like to thank MLB for reminding me I only need to pay attention to the last three weeks of the regular season.
- SouthernCentrist - Friday, Oct 13, 23 @ 8:10 am:
Morning Rich - Happy to be back in Chicago for a few days. Wish there wasn’t rain in the forecast most of the weekend, but I’ll make do. Looking forward to getting Velvet Taco for lunch this afternoon.
Took the car out for a spin yesterday and drove by a site selected for a migrant shelter (a converted Marine Corps Reserves building) in North Park.
I was somewhat shocked to see new fences with razor wire had been added to the perimeter of the property. It looked more like a minimum security prison than a shelter. Does Chicago mean to lock the migrants inside of the building?
Am frustrated that Republicans can’t get their act together in DC and Democrats can’t get their act together in Chicago/Illinois. Is it to much to ask for basic governance?
= First rain in so long I cannot remember. Nice. =
It’s been helpful being so dry for so long to get the crop out, but the Rivers here in central Illinois are looking pretty low. Our kids are worried the rain might postpone the Lucky 13 showing of the Taylor Swift movie at the Drive-In tonight at Knight’s.
I thinks it’s more than fair to say the purposeful Republican un-governance in DC is part of a greater burning down things, in the system.
To the migrant issue, DC and the administration has been failing to take the wheel and direction away from border states and governing choices by those leaders too, even if the motivations of those border states are not altruistic but framed politically. There needs to be the national direction, lead, and “big footing” policy away from states.
All that said, Illinois and Chicago facing challenges trying to work with unhelpful state partners, it’s more than fair to call out Chicago leadership’s lack of a plan, leadership, and weak understanding what it means to lead in crisis, and the state’s moving more towards a macro leadership ask is long overdue and needs to be far more pointed and direct to help Illinois to meet her mission instead of others forcing a political will to appease a base not centered on the needs of human beings.
I know my farmer friends are glad to be catching a break for rest as well. It never ceases to amaze me how farmers seem to never stop, 24/7, until the crops are planted or harvested, except for these sorts of breaks. No one knows hard work like a farmer does.
I’m not sure that I would consider dealing with a migrant crisis orchestrated in an entirely arbitrary manner by the governor of TX as basic governance. But do agree that more needs to be done particularly at a federal level. No arguments with your take on Washington however. Both instances show the havoc that can be created by minority interests rooted in sowing division and chaos. And in the end we all lose.
- Joe Bidenopolous - Friday, Oct 13, 23 @ 10:03 am:
=== (a converted Marine Corps Reserves building) in North Park.==
I live very close to this. The razor wire has always been there. As an aside, migrants have been in there for 2-3 weeks. No issues.
I’m looking forward to learning if Minnesota’s qb is overrated or Chicago’s qb is overrated. Whichever is 1-5 answers the question for me.
- Stuck in Celliniland - Friday, Oct 13, 23 @ 10:39 am:
20 years ago tomorrow night Steve Bartman became a household name.
- thisjustinagain - Friday, Oct 13, 23 @ 12:23 pm:
Waiting to see if my basement gets to flood again due to heavy thunderstorms forecast for later today. I’m in 60827, which along with Dolton,Cal City, Harvey, and parts of the City of Chicago got the hyperstorm 7+ inches not long ago. House isn’t worth the money to put in a backflow preventer either. Yippee.
Excited to see if we will get a debate between Bailey and Bost.
Bost won’t appear before a 2nd grade class for questions. Bailey will once again always be too busy on the farm.
- Flyin'Elvis'-Utah Chapter - Friday, Oct 13, 23 @ 7:50 am:
If Rich will indulge me, I would like to thank MLB for reminding me I only need to pay attention to the last three weeks of the regular season.
- SouthernCentrist - Friday, Oct 13, 23 @ 8:10 am:
Morning Rich - Happy to be back in Chicago for a few days. Wish there wasn’t rain in the forecast most of the weekend, but I’ll make do. Looking forward to getting Velvet Taco for lunch this afternoon.
- Save Ferris - Friday, Oct 13, 23 @ 8:31 am:
Sad. Don’t go, Tom!
https://blockclubchicago.org/2023/10/12/tom-skilling-legendary-wgn-tv-weatherman-will-retire-after-45-years
- Gravitas - Friday, Oct 13, 23 @ 8:49 am:
Took the car out for a spin yesterday and drove by a site selected for a migrant shelter (a converted Marine Corps Reserves building) in North Park.
I was somewhat shocked to see new fences with razor wire had been added to the perimeter of the property. It looked more like a minimum security prison than a shelter. Does Chicago mean to lock the migrants inside of the building?
- Rich Miller - Friday, Oct 13, 23 @ 8:50 am:
===Does Chicago mean to lock the migrants inside of the building?===
Could be for their protection.
- H-W - Friday, Oct 13, 23 @ 9:00 am:
Wet. First rain in so long I cannot remember. Nice.
- Steve Rogers - Friday, Oct 13, 23 @ 9:01 am:
This is the first year since 1993 that the Cardinals, Yankees, and Red Sox have not been in the playoffs.
- Just Me 2 - Friday, Oct 13, 23 @ 9:18 am:
Am frustrated that Republicans can’t get their act together in DC and Democrats can’t get their act together in Chicago/Illinois. Is it to much to ask for basic governance?
- BTL - Friday, Oct 13, 23 @ 9:19 am:
= First rain in so long I cannot remember. Nice. =
It’s been helpful being so dry for so long to get the crop out, but the Rivers here in central Illinois are looking pretty low. Our kids are worried the rain might postpone the Lucky 13 showing of the Taylor Swift movie at the Drive-In tonight at Knight’s.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 13, 23 @ 9:30 am:
- Just Me 2 -
I thinks it’s more than fair to say the purposeful Republican un-governance in DC is part of a greater burning down things, in the system.
To the migrant issue, DC and the administration has been failing to take the wheel and direction away from border states and governing choices by those leaders too, even if the motivations of those border states are not altruistic but framed politically. There needs to be the national direction, lead, and “big footing” policy away from states.
All that said, Illinois and Chicago facing challenges trying to work with unhelpful state partners, it’s more than fair to call out Chicago leadership’s lack of a plan, leadership, and weak understanding what it means to lead in crisis, and the state’s moving more towards a macro leadership ask is long overdue and needs to be far more pointed and direct to help Illinois to meet her mission instead of others forcing a political will to appease a base not centered on the needs of human beings.
With respect.
- H-W - Friday, Oct 13, 23 @ 9:38 am:
@ BTL
I know my farmer friends are glad to be catching a break for rest as well. It never ceases to amaze me how farmers seem to never stop, 24/7, until the crops are planted or harvested, except for these sorts of breaks. No one knows hard work like a farmer does.
- Pundent - Friday, Oct 13, 23 @ 9:53 am:
=Is it to much to ask for basic governance?=
I’m not sure that I would consider dealing with a migrant crisis orchestrated in an entirely arbitrary manner by the governor of TX as basic governance. But do agree that more needs to be done particularly at a federal level. No arguments with your take on Washington however. Both instances show the havoc that can be created by minority interests rooted in sowing division and chaos. And in the end we all lose.
- Joe Bidenopolous - Friday, Oct 13, 23 @ 10:03 am:
=== (a converted Marine Corps Reserves building) in North Park.==
I live very close to this. The razor wire has always been there. As an aside, migrants have been in there for 2-3 weeks. No issues.
- Chicago Voter - Friday, Oct 13, 23 @ 10:17 am:
In Chicago, we cannot ask for basic governance because we have co-governance.
In this administration’s Chicago, people are not offered basic human dignity and containment policies are re-tooled to be called systems of care.
- Lurker - Friday, Oct 13, 23 @ 10:32 am:
I’m looking forward to learning if Minnesota’s qb is overrated or Chicago’s qb is overrated. Whichever is 1-5 answers the question for me.
- Stuck in Celliniland - Friday, Oct 13, 23 @ 10:39 am:
20 years ago tomorrow night Steve Bartman became a household name.
- thisjustinagain - Friday, Oct 13, 23 @ 12:23 pm:
Waiting to see if my basement gets to flood again due to heavy thunderstorms forecast for later today. I’m in 60827, which along with Dolton,Cal City, Harvey, and parts of the City of Chicago got the hyperstorm 7+ inches not long ago. House isn’t worth the money to put in a backflow preventer either. Yippee.
- South of I-64 - Saturday, Oct 14, 23 @ 1:58 pm:
Excited to see if we will get a debate between Bailey and Bost.
Bost won’t appear before a 2nd grade class for questions. Bailey will once again always be too busy on the farm.