Variety: Taxpayers Will Subsidize Hollywood Forever According to Variety, 40 states out of 50 now offer some kind of incentive to attract Hollywood film and television productions. Permanency — of what is known as “corporate welfare” when Hollywood’s Top 1%
First Lady Michelle Obama said, “The first time I read ‘Phenomenal Woman,’ I was struck by the way she celebrated black women’s beauty like no one had ever dared to before. Her words were clever and sassy, they were powerful and
For the first time Chicago police used a facial recognition program to identify, capture, and convict a robbery suspect. In May, Pierre D. Martin, 35, was convicted in a bench trail for a robbery he committed in February of last
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Captain Dustin Brown redirected Willie Mitchell’s shot 10:26 into the second overtime, and the Los Angeles Kings outlasted the New York Rangers 5-4 Saturday night to take a 2-0 lead in the Stanley Cup finals. Marian
Major insurance companies appear to be looking into a new tactic to recover money from paid claims. Such companies may start suing cities and states that they contend are not taking enough action to curb climate change. Last May, Farmers
While Major League Baseball teams are drafting players they hope will eventually help, the basketball players taken on June 26 can change teams immediately. The Cleveland Cavaliers won 17 games in 2003, then 35, 42 and 50, respectively, the next
During a June 5 appearance on CNN’s The Lead, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said if critics of his recent gun control push really want to see gun crime diminished they should join together for national gun laws like he is
As the outrage at President Obama’s secret deal that secured the return of suspected army deserter Bowe Bergdahl by releasing five of the world’s most dangerous terrorist masterminds grows, many Obama critics have added his negotiating with terrorists to their
Don Zimmer was more baseball than you. For the last six-and-a-half decades, he had been playing or coaching baseball–in the U.S., Japan, Mexico, and wherever teams would pay him to do so. From 18 to 83, he worked on the
In reporting on Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s latest gun control push, Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn made clear Emanuel’s new rule won’t “crimp any thug’s lifestyle.” If passed, the rules will only affect law-abiding gun owners. Zorn was focusing on
On the heels of his efforts to ban gun stores in “99.5 percent” of Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel now wants to limit Chicagoans to one gun purchase a month. This push is aimed at “retail firearms customers”–i.e., law-abiding citizens. According
When most people think of a daily diary they imagine pages filled with tales of boyfriends, birthday parties, school days, and personal milestones. Cubs booth announcer Harry Caray filled his diary with the booze that filled him. Caray’s drinking diaries were
The mother of a Jewish Chicago Public Schools (CPS) student tried for weeks to get the CPS to address the anti-Semitic bullying being perpetrated against her eighth grader, but little was done until the parent contacted local media. The bullying
“Six people–including two teenagers–were shot at a South Shore laundromat” on the night of June 2, but Democrats continue to talk about Santa Barbara. According to My Fox Chicago, the teenagers wounded in the shooting were ages 14 and 16,
Chicago, Il. — From the moment you arrive at O’Hare International Airport, you realize that the annual convention of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) is an economic windfall for the Windy City. ORD, which is 20 miles from the McCormick
A test question on a Chicago Public Schools (CPS) assessment asking seventh graders to compare differing views on immigration, including one written by a fictitious Bush administration official whose name sounds almost exactly like that of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe
Once again the weekend brings death to Chicago with five dead and 14 wounded, ten of those in a less than 4-hour period. With all the violence this year, Chicago has seen a 7 percent rise in shootings over last
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Emmy-winning actress Ann B. Davis, who became the country’s favorite and most famous housekeeper as the devoted Alice Nelson of “The Brady Bunch,” died Sunday at a San Antonio hospital. She was 88. Bexar County, Texas,
Chicago, IL — Are the problems of the Department of Veterans Affairs an unfortunate scandal? Or are they a matter of deliberate Obama administration policy? The latest news from Washington, including Friday’s resignation of Veterans Secretary Eric Shinseki, is reverberating
NEW YORK (AP) — A new arena version of “Jesus Christ Superstar” starring punk legend John “Johnny Rotten” Lydon and Michelle Williams of Destiny’s Child has abruptly canceled its 54-city tour just days before its launch in New Orleans. Producers
On April 17, the Illinois legislature floated the idea of spending $100 million in Illinois tax dollars on an Obama Presidential library, despite that the President has made no decision on where his library will be. Almost immediately the idea
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Chicago’s 30-year gun ban is unconstitutional, and the city must now allow gun shops to open in city limits. But this month, Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced extremely prohibitive new regulations for gun shops, a
The Houston Astros will be hosting the 2014 Civil Rights Game with the team taking the field in the uniform of the Houston Eagles, the only Negro League team from Texas. The Astros will be playing the Orioles who will
The protective coating on the glass on a ledge 1,353 feet above the ground at the Willis Tower in Chicago cracked last night when a group of tourists were on it. WGN reports that Alejandro Garibay, one of the tourists
In another example of Manny Being Manny, former Boston Red Sox Star Manny Ramirez finally apologized in person for a 2008 incident in which he threw a much older Jack McCormick to the ground in a dispute over game tickets.
