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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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