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Walter’s Perspective: The Mayor Can Find Money For Schools
CHICAGO (CBS) — About our public-schools, the empty school budget, the bad money crunch, what I’m thinking is: C’mon Mr. Mayor, you can find some money for the schools the way you find it for other...
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New Book Taps Into ‘Golden’ Blagojevich Corruption Saga
CHICAGO (CBS) – A book in stores Friday gives a detailed account of the corruption-related downfall and conviction of disgraced ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich. The title says it all: “Golden: How Rod...
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Walter’s Perspective: Rahm Can’t Provoke Cops And Firefighters Like He Did...
CHICAGO (CBS) – If there ever were one, this is an “ouch” time in Chicago, being on pins and needles about the teachers and the mayor. The teachers’ strike may be over, but what’s next? And what’s...
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Walter’s Perspective: Cutler’s Sideline Bump Is Much Ado About Nothing
(CBS)–This is a hard night for me, thinking about the Chicago Bears and the St. Louis Rams, a big game on Sunday. But all the talk-talk in the news is about a little bump-bump last week on a sideline....
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‘Killing Is The Solution,’ Gang Member Tells Walter Jacobson
CHICAGO (CBS) — Gangbangers in Chicago: What makes them tick, what are they thinking? CBS 2’s Walter Jacobson sat down with gang members in Chicago’s troubled Englewood neighborhood to try to find some...
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Walter’s Perspective: Church Should Not Displace Priest
CHICAGO (CBS) — I’m saying a prayer tonight for a Chicago priest, a beloved and wonderful 80-year-old priest, who is being moved out of his church -– kicked out by the Chicago Archdiocese. He is Father...
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Walter’s Perspective: Let’s Make Sure Voters Win The Debate
CHICAGO (CBS) – Are you planning to watch the presidential debate on Wednesday? I am, to see what President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney are like face-to-face, and hear what they...
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Community Activist To Walter: Gang Membership Not Inevitable
CHICAGO (CBS) – A community activist says a recent report by CBS 2’s Walter Jacobson gave the wrong impression that gang membership is inevitable for young Chicagoans. In his report last month,...
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Walter’s Perspective: Obama Threw Away First Debate
CHICAGO (CBS) — If you did not ride the subway this morning, you missed a lot of good talk about the great debate last night — talk that you don’t often hear in this toddlin’ town of Barack Obama....
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Walter’s Perspective: Plenty Of Reasons To Celebrate Italian Heritage
CHICAGO (CBS) – I’m a day late, but not too late, because it’s never too late to celebrate Columbus Day, and add to my reasons every year for why we should stop thinking of Italians as godfather...
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Walter’s Perspective: Mayor Needs To Find The Cash For More Cops
CHICAGO (CBS) – I have a subway story to tell you; on the Red Line this morning, the train talk was all about cops, cops, cops, cops. Kind of like President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney talking all...
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Walter’s Perspective: Even Candidates Don’t Know What They Mean
CHICAGO (CBS) – Outside, on the Clark Street side of City Hall on Tuesday, a voter I met asked me about the presidential debate Monday night, which was watched by more than 50 million people. Did I...
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Walter’s Perspective: Obama’s Voting Stunt An Expensive One
CHICAGO (CBS) – Well, it’s about time in the race to the White House that finally, Illinois is in the news: The president in Chicago, posing for pictures in a polling place, in and out of here in three...
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Walter’s Perspective: Tear Down Prentice
CHICAGO (CBS) – Not much is being said anymore about presidential debates, but in Chicago, there’s a hospital debate to talk about; a great debate about Northwestern University’s famous Prentice...
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Walter’s Perspective: Give Mourning Firefighters A New Contract
CHICAGO (CBS) – Time out tonight from politics. What matters more, to me, anyway, is Herbie Johnson, Chicago Fire Capt. Herbie Johnson, on his way to heaven now to rest in peace. After 32 years of so...
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Walter’s Perspective: Do-Nothing Congress Sure Is Paid A Lot
CHICAGO (CBS) – The U.S. Congress today was back in session to reduce the deficit, reform immigration, improve education. There’s much to do that congress doesn’t do because what it does most is go on...
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Walter’s Perspective: Christmas Shopping Crowds Thanksgiving
CHICAGO (CBS) — I have called the grocer to reserve my turkey, but I’m feeling not good about Thanksgiving. I’m afraid there won’t be a Thanksgiving, not like there used to be in the kitchen during the...
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Walter’s Perspective: Nothing Crabby About Donating To Sandy Victims
CHICAGO (CBS) – Take it from a reporter who’s crabby all the time, or much of the time. Take it from me, that something wonderful has just happened in Chicago: hundreds of people called the Red Cross...
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From Rising Star To Resignation: A Look Back At Jesse Jackson Jr.’s Career
CHICAGO (CBS) – Just two weeks ago, Jackson was re-elected to the Congress for a tenth term. He had been there for 17 years. His career in Congress ended Wednesday with his resignation over major...
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Walter’s Perspective: CTA Price Increases Hard To Swallow
CHICAGO (CBS) – It was a bad day today on the subway, knowing my 30 day pass is about to expire, and the cost of a new one’s about to go up next year. I’m bouncing around on the Red Line, reading about...
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Walter’s Perspective: Jackson Jr. Watch Is Thankfully Quiet
CHICAGO (CBS) –Tonight is the first night in a long time that Jesse Jackson Jr. is not in the news, not on the front pages of the papers, not being ridiculed for avoiding reporters. No hints in the...
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Walter’s Perspective: Hooray For Rahm Standing Up To Parking Meter Firm
CHICAGO (CBS) – There’s no cheering the Chicago Bears this week, so I’m looking for something else to feel good about; to say “that’s fabulous,” and “right on,” and “go for it.” Well, right on Mayor...
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Walter’s Perspective: Burglary At High-End Retailer Overshadowed By Price Of...
CHICAGO (CBS) — A for-sure story in the news in Chicago –- always for sure — is a burglary off the hoity-toity Michigan Avenue, and doubly for-sure if it’s on Oak Street on the Gold Coast. Like the...
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Walter’s Perspective: The Koschman-Vanecko Court Case Is Classic Chicago Way
CHICAGO (CBS) – The Koschman-Vanecko story has become a really big one. At first, it was about a drunk versus a drunk on Division Street, then about a newspaper versus the police for information about...
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Walter’s Perspective: Education Is Next Fiscal Cliff
(CBS) — Christmas has come and gone, and I’ve checked my presents many, many times and still can’t find the one I want most: the big one, the pension reform I’ve been waiting for since last Christmas,...
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Walter’s Perspective: More Of The Same Nothing From Lawmakers On Pension Crisis
(CBS) – It’s hard to believe, but there are some players in the news playing worse than the Fighting Irish. They’re the fighting lunkheads in the Illinois General Assembly; the politicians who are...
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Walter’s Perspective: President’s Cabinet Male-Heavy
(CBS) –We are now just 10 days into the New Year, but I already am ready to choose a Best Picture of the Year. It’s not Eddie Lacy of Alabama slicing through the Irish of Notre-Dame or President Obama...
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Walter’s Perspective: Chicago Isn’t Chicago Without The Pigeons
CHICAGO (CBS) – Are you following our story about our pigeon problem? Too many pigeons; everywhere we look, pigeons, thousands of pigeons. Gotta get them out of here, says Ald. James Cappelman (46th)....
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Walter’s Perspective: No Sympathy For Te’o, Or Duped Media
(CBS) – I may be the odd guy out on this, but I don’t feel one bit sorry for Manti Te’o being embarrassed by his love-story hoax. I’m not sad that he’s now had to admit the hoax and how he kept it a...
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Walter’s Perspective: Beyonce Lip Synced? So What?
(CBS) – So the world suspects that at the inauguration ceremony on Monday, Beyonce did not sing the National Anthem. She lip synced it. The Marine band at the inauguration tattled on her to the media,...
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Walter’s Perspective: Raise Cash, Get Ambassador Post
(CBS) – In the White House now, the inauguration fun is done, and it’s back to work. The president is choosing his ambassadors for around the world. To Great Britain, for example, a most critical post...
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Walter’s Perspective: New Property Tax Bills A Fascinating Read
CHICAGO (CBS) – Have you seen an envelope from the government of Cook County in the mail today, with news inside about how our tax dollars are being spent? Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas is blowing...
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Walter’s Perspective: Leave George Ryan Be
(CBS) — Like many reporters, I’m thinking about George Ryan, and on the Red Line this morning I talked with fellow riders about him. Between Clark and Division and Lake Street, and in the station at...
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Walter’s Perspective: Rahm Showed For Jury Duty? Good For Him
CHICAGO (CBS) – Oh, what a nice days it’s been. Except for the damp and the grey outside, I had no reason today to be crabby, didn’t find a bad politician today to pick on. In fact, just the opposite....
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Walter’s Perspective: Don’t Teach Callers How To Play 9-1-1 System
(CBS) — Did you hear it today — the talk around the cooler about the Chicago police not responding anymore to 9-1-1 calls that are not emergencies? It’s a new policy that only if a crime is being...
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Walter’s Perspective: Valentine’s Day Tarnished By The High Cost Of Cards
(CBS) — Cloudy and cold today, but a beautiful day, Valentine’s Day. And I love sending cards to my wife and kids and grandkids. But I have a problem with the cost of the cards: $4.99, $5.99 for a card...
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Walter’s Perspective: Washington Street Bike Plan Could Create Gridlock
(CBS) — When the bad weather goes away and better weather comes and I’m riding my bike downtown, I’ll think, ‘Thank you, Mr. Mayor of Chicago,’ for being a bike-rider kind of guy who’s providing a bike...
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Walter’s Perspective: Allowing Guns On Public Transportation Is Madness
(CBS) — When reporting the news, I try always to stick to the facts. In “Perspective,” I express an opinion about guns tonight and the Illinois General Assembly working on a law that may allow us to...
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Kurtis, Jacobson Bid Farewell After Legendary Run
Walter Jacobson and Bill Kurtis speak the the staff at WBBM-TV on the eve of their final broadcast. (CBS) CHICAGO (CBS) — The legendary duo of Bill Kurtis and Walter Jacobson signed off as anchors...
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Walter’s Perspective: Please Pass Along A Message, Mrs. Obama
(CBS) – Hello. Hello, Ms. First Lady Michelle. Thank you for stopping in Chicago. It’s been good having you here, even if only a few hours. Now that you’re back in the White House, when you have a...
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