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Several new items and updates to the ol’ blog

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* I spent part of the weekend expanding our automated news coverage here. The first thing you may have noticed is that our live coverage is back, sorta. As explained below, this will be different than the old Scribble Live feed because Twitter broke not only itself but almost everything else it touched.

These new feeds do not update instantly in front of your eyes, like Scribble Live did. There’s also a bit of posting lagtime and the new service itself may not last long. We just can’t give you any guarantees on any of this right now until Elon either gets his act together or a realistic online alternative develops. I also added a live coverage post for federal criminal trials.

* The automated news feeds on the right-hand side of the page have been tweaked to display a bit better, but almost all of the sources have also been expanded.

Bing News search results have been added to the Google results, for instance, so you’ll get more stories about more topics.

For some reason, the Capitol News Illinois feed had vanished, but it’s been restored.

More news sections of the Sun-Times and Tribune have been added. Suburban and exurban stories from Shaw Local and other local papers have been combined with an enhanced Daily Herald coverage feed.

All four legislative caucuses have newsletters, so they’ve been given a feed. News feeds from both state parties and the two Cook County parties are also in there. A feed of news stories from numerous radio and television stations was also created, as was a feed of State Journal-Register stories. Several newspapers were added to the Downstate feed.

I’ve added some Substack accounts and more bloggers to the Blog feed. And more news sources have been added to the federal officeholder news feeds. There’s also a new feed for hyper-local Chicago outlets and one for college student papers.

posted by Rich Miller
Monday, Dec 4, 23 @ 7:45 am

Comments

Thank you Rich! The hard work is appreciated.

=one for college student papers=

Seriously, thank you.

Comment by Shibboleth Monday, Dec 4, 23 @ 7:58 am
so good and all so appreciated, from you, and from Isabel. I always laugh when I encounter that rare person who does not frequent this site. they are not only missing great links but great thinking.

Comment by Amalia Monday, Dec 4, 23 @ 8:43 am
Some great additions to the news feeds. Thanks for your work, Rich.

Comment by JoanP Monday, Dec 4, 23 @ 8:45 am
We all need to fully appreciate the rare treasure that Rich (and Isabel!) is, especially in the light of the extreme erosion of local news coverage. Rich/Capitol Fax is the best……Still looking for anything close in Albany……

Comment by Frequent Lurker Monday, Dec 4, 23 @ 9:36 am
Is that Abe Lincoln in a Sox shirt?

Comment by 47th Ward Monday, Dec 4, 23 @ 12:50 pm
===Is that Abe Lincoln in a Sox shirt? ===

Yep. A reader created that for me several years ago and I finally put it on the blog. But if the Cubs snag Shohei Ohtani, I may have to take it down.

Comment by Rich Miller Monday, Dec 4, 23 @ 1:06 pm
From Twitter to X…the societal effect has been malignant…to democracy.

Comment by Dotnonymous x Monday, Dec 4, 23 @ 2:14 pm