A “table-pounding, finger-pointing diatribe”
Author: Jim Bowman
Jim Bowman covered religion 1968-78 for the Chicago Daily News, since then has written books, articles, etc., mostly on corporate history but also on religion (Company Man: My Jesuit Life, 1950-1968), and more recently on politics (Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters -- Lulu.com, Kindle). Longtime Oak Park, Illinois, resident, he lives now on Chicago's North Side, where four of his and Winnie's six children live close by.
Wednesday Journal publications taking leap into nonprofit model
Change is good. Right?
Publisher Dan Haley’s pitch for his new business model:
“Oak Park would not be the same place if the Wednesday Journal had not been here the past 40 years.”
Had never asked myself that question, an interesting one.
In any case, the issue is joined.
“To most people in our situation, I would say face the reality that our model is broken,” [Haley] said. “There was a process I went through of saying, ‘It’s not your fault, Dan. The world changed around you, and now you have to adapt to it.
Instead:
“Accept the reality, have faith in your community that they will see the value in the work you’ve done over time. … You have a foundation of readership and advertisers, you are in great shape. Be proud of the asset that has been built, and take that asset in a new way.”
That’s sales talk, and where would…
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Trustee Buchanan the most famous Oak Parker maybe ever!
A tale of the Western suburbs . . .
And that’s why she got threatening emails.
I googled “buchanan oak park shut up” and NOT UNTIL the 11th Google page, ten sightings each page, did I find NO COVERAGE of Trustee Buchanan’s ordering three fellow trustees, including the mayor, to stay out of an important discussion — while apparently unbeknownst to her, SOMEONE WAS VIDEOING THE WHOLE THING.
But it’s all about the other trustee she told to shut up because he’s a white man! A sordid story from once the biggest village in the world!
Isis gone, socialism strikes again. This time in Iraq
It’s a tragedy but largely a self-inflicted one. True, the country was ravaged by ISIS for five years but that conflict slowed to a skirmish months ago.
The fact remains that Iraq is a socialist basket case—a disaster of big government, central planning, and “leaders” with sticky fingers.
Yes, yet another socialist basket case among so many that it’s hard to keep up with their number.
Director Quentin Tarantino Refuses to Recut His Newest Film for Chinese Release
How come the Chinese do like they do?
As China continues to make massive inroads into the global economy, they’re going to continue to push their will upon foreign corporations and nations. Among their imperialistic totalitarian prerogatives is to make sure nobody says anything bad about them.
This is why the entire nation of China has had the character of Winnie the Pooh banned just because someone criticized President-for-life Xi Jinping by saying he looked like him.
Money is powerful. Financial pressure is another kind of diplomacy for these people.
“Freedom of speech does not mean that it can be arbitrary nonsense,” says Chinese TV
But it does, Mr. Chinese TV. That’s the difference (in this matter) between you and us. Precisely so.
via Chinese State Television Vows ‘Retribution’ Against N.B.A.’s Adam Silver – The New York Times
Indigenous culture can enrich liturgy, bishop says
“Enhance and enrich,” is it? It’s not enriched enough? Just what those Amazonians are looking for.
Proposals at the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon for indigenous- or Amazonian-rite ceremonies are meant to enhance and enrich the liturgy with cultural signs and gestures, not change what is essential for Catholics, a bishop said.
Popular demand, apparently.
via Catholic Philly
Star of star chamber, Schiff in the basement
Adam Schiff is at it again, tampering with witnesses.
Yesterday, he got caught trying to shove words into a witness’s mouth, to make him say things he didn’t want to say. I wrote about that here.
Today, he’s doing something just as bad, getting together with other witnesses and working out a pre-coordinated story for the coming show trial.
Read more: at American Thinker
CNN’s Zucker, he bad
Condemned!
“I think Jeff Zucker should be fired,” determined Dershowitz of CNN’s president. “He has destroyed CNN. He has made it impossible for people to hear two sides of a view or any side of a view other than Jeff Zucker’s view, and that’s not the way television should operate.”
Too bad.
Oak Park Trustee to White Colleague: ‘You Shouldn’t Have an Opinion… You Have Been White from Birth’ | Trending
Wow. From my old home town Oak Park IL comes “the most racist incident to happen in all of 2019.”
From a wild, wild woman in this amazing display.
I sat through many board and other meetings in the village where I grew up and lived 40-plus years as husband, father, activist, local-paper columnist, etc.
Never saw the likes of this.
From a U. of Illinois Chicago progressor no less. She apologized in that paper afterward, but now what?
Blithe Spirit 