The fact that thousands of mostly black drivers are *filing for bankruptcy* to cope with ticket debt is a uniquely Chicago phenomenon.
With @WBEZ, we analyzed millions of records from tickets dating back to 2007. Hereโs what else we found:
+Full story: https://t.co/HdLXa74hul
We like to wring our hands over threats to the press, but constantly attending these don't exactly help. I can't remember the last time we got anything newsworthy from one.
Use resources to tell the stories of people instead of regurgitating the spin factory.
It was wrong for the White House to bar CNN from the press briefing. This also wouldn't be an issue if they collectively stopped giving that indulgence in nonsense any attention.
Interestingly, this was introduced by Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, who's fallen out of the news cycle but has his own problems we should probably keep watching. https://t.co/NbfrM64q7i
This is Morgan's Cliff Notes version of Home Alone: "Some kid setting little traps and he tries to get away. I think I may have played a video game about it, so maybe I didn't see the movie." @MorganKolkmeyer
Fun, weird fact: Frasier is one of the big reasons I got into broadcast. It looked like a cool world to me. Turns out, I was right.
Eight years into this and it's pretty neat how authentic the writing of KACL's function is to real radio. Plus, it's just a great show.