Farmers Markets in Illinois 2010:
State Ag department: http://www.agr.state.il.us/markets/farmers/ Farmers Markets Online: http://www.farmersmarketonline.com/fm/Illinois.htm
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Newsweek article about the twins:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/225492/page/1 The Power of Two: http://www.newsweek.com/id/225098 Photo gallery of the kids, etc. The Intro picture is particularly stunning. This has been in the works since spring. Newsweek came in with a Pulitzer-award winning photographer who was fresh from covering the White House and Obama and Bush to do the shots. The interviews mostly were around [...]
Home front:
Meredith came home early today sick to her stomach and running just under 100F; the H1N1 still isn’t available out here except a trickle with the public health departments, and there’s been some deaths with teenagers (usual serious swine flu symptoms). I can’t take the live virus nose spray, and that’s all that’s available. Susan [...]
And he does a reverse Harold Washington for the goal:
Two prominent Cook County politicians who are black will be running in the next election for President of the Cook County Board; this article discusses how that could split the black vote in the election and let Candidate #3 in the door, a reverse of what happened when Washington beat Byrne and Daley for the [...]
Who wants the jobs and can handle them?
The short version seems to be that it’s unlikely without further explosions that Gov. Sanford of South Carolina will be forced to quit his job over the whole affair-affair, but it’s pretty certain that his political future is totally destroyed. This review from the South Carolina paper The State puts it in a nutshell, without [...]
Goes without saying:
I am singularly uninterested in the Jackson story. I’ve seen enough oddball celebrity circuses, and the really interesting and truly weird stuff will not come out for a while for most people. I expect more news circuses repeated endlessly on the news, and I will ignore them all. Finally, someone sems to be doing something [...]
Seekrit Project revealed:
Some months ago, we and the other Meredith’s family were contacted by a prominent reporter for NEWSWEEK to be part of a story about a twin study that has been going on by Dr. Nancy Segal of Cal State Fullerton. (We’ve been in the separated twin study for a number of years.) When she heard [...]
Seekrit Project:
The short end of it is that Susan, Meredith and I will be totally occupied with a Seekrit Project from about dinnertime Thursday to Friday evening (the first night of Duckon). Mike Harrington is flying in on Friday morning from Birmingham to be Duckon’s Science Guest of Honor, along with his daughter Meredith Ellen, and [...]
More Metering:
” I know you tell us what to do, but you’re supposed to warn us when you tell us to do something that is going to get us into trouble with our constituents and the law!”
Stimulus map:
Here’s a map from AP of the major stimulus projects on a county-by-county basis. Zoomable flash. In my case, the big project in my area is the resurfacing and repair of a major nearby road that we use on a daily basis that is pothole city (which is unfortunately a widespread problem in the Chicago [...]
Paging Paul Riddell:
A local library decided to ban Cat Piss Man, for what it’s worth. (Look through here for a copy of Paul’s orignal article on this, which is in his new book, which I told you the other day to go buy)
Another. Damn. Flood:
The neighbors were astonished at the third recent downpour and flood in the area; they say it’s the worst they’ve seen in 10-plus years. (The one that said that has an instant four-foot wide stream going through her yard.) We got lucky re the sump pump, but the back yard filled up again and thus [...]
Burris update:
While the Democratic establishment is working on a plan to flush Burris out of his seat with a special election, Burris is countering with a threat to challenge it through the courts and hope that the Democratic poobahs give up. Also, Burris is inspiring various black Chicago notables to talk like Burris inherited the Senate [...]
Burris Junior:
Blago appointed Burris’s son Roland II to a state job handling housing funds. But it turns out that the dude (who was working in his Dad’s law firm until he got the new state job in September) has some serious financial problems – a huge unpaid tax lien to the state of Illinois and his [...]
To Your Scattered Bodies Go:
Philip Jose Farmer dies in Peoria at the age of 91. And yes, the first for-sure memory of adult SF I have is Riders of the Purple Wage in Dangerous Visions, from my mom’s copy in or around 1967. And no, I still haven’t read Finnegan’s Wake or pretty much any other James Joyce.