Aaron Lowe

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[Chris Vannini @ChrisVannini]

Bill Belichick brought his dad's old UNC sweatshirt from his time coaching there.

[ESPN @espn]

UNC AD Bubba Cunningham brought out the sleeveless suit in honor of Bill Belichick 😅

[Aaron Lowe @AaronLoweAL]

"If you really want to advocate for victims’ rights, have your cops get it right the first time and hold them accountable when they engage in misconduct" is a foreign concept in Chicago and Illinois.
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[Jared Rutecki @JaredRutecki]

I did a post-mortem on Chicago PD’s “scarecrow” policing initiative. The highly visible program was criticized by many inside and outside the department, and rang up more than a million hours of overtime before ending in February.
https://t.co/QZL4KY31rZ

[Rep. Maurice West @StateRepWEST]

National Financial Literacy Month is an important time to learn more about smart money management. For free courses and other financial literacy resources, please visit the Illinois State Treasurer’s website.

[Rep. Maurice West @StateRepWEST]

National Homeless Persons Memorial Day, which takes place every year on the longest night of the winter, remembers unhoused people lost in the past year and recognizes their daily struggle.

[Aaron Lowe @AaronLoweAL]

“I’m Just Another Traffic Stop” https://t.co/Bt8Zge2vE7

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Nobody beats the power-napping prowess of these penguins, which doze off thousands of times a day while keeping vigil over their nests https://t.co/TEXs0LIwfo https://t.co/TEXs0LIwfo

[Aaron Lowe @AaronLoweAL]

How can you honestly disagree? The Counsell move put all the chips in the pot and you have to come out with big free agent signings to capitalize on it.

[Aaron Lowe @AaronLoweAL]

How a ‘Goon Squad’ of Mississippi Deputies Got Away With Years of Brutality https://t.co/P61kZPaIyz

[Aaron Lowe @AaronLoweAL]

Doug E. Fresh.

[Ron Kampeas @kampeas]

My Kissinger story. Every 6 months, the DC @ap would send reporters to the National Archives in College Park to search through a roomful of newly declassified docs to see if anything 30 years old was newsworthy. I made one such trek in 2002.

[Ron Kampeas @kampeas]

You literally had to randomly search through boxes and hope something would pop put. I found transcripts of meetings Nixon and Kissinger had with foreign leaders -- notes that Kissinger or others in the meetings would take. What struck me was how much, up close, they were bullies

[Ron Kampeas @kampeas]

They made clear to thier supposed peers that they were the big cheeses and they'd better get out of their way. so I wrote the story that way. Buried deep inside was this sentence: "In his meeting with Heath, Nixon ... boasts that U.S. ally Brazil rigged the election in Uruguay."

[Ron Kampeas @kampeas]

The next morning I got a frantic call from GWU's National Security Archive. Could I please share that document about Uruguay? I said sure. The caller explained, your byline is on front pages across South America, you know that, right?

[Ron Kampeas @kampeas]

I did not know that. I thought surely, this must be known that the US rigged the election in Uruguay in the early 1970s. People suspected, but there was never a smoking gun ... until it popped up on a decades old typewritten sheet at the National Archive. Story in next tweet

[Ron Kampeas @kampeas]

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[Aaron Lowe @AaronLoweAL]

Is the Vegas F1 race going to backfire?
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[Aaron Lowe @AaronLoweAL]

Is JAY-Z's Wealth Good for Black America? https://t.co/6j9iOeOfqA

[Jeff Passan @JeffPassan]

Before Craig Counsell agreed to an $8M-a-year salary with the Chicago Cubs, the highest-paid manager in MLB was $4.5M. For context, other sports:

NFL: Bill Belichick, $20M
NBA: Monty Williams, $13.05M
CFB: Nick Saban, $11.4M
CBB: John Calipari, $8.5M
NHL: Todd McLellan, $5M