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GREAT WASTE IN THE GREAT LAKES

University of Toronto biologist, Chelsea Buchman, senior, and Meredith Omar, left, collect northern pearl dace to be measured for research at the Experimental Lakes Area, in western Ontario on Oct. 1, 2020. 89.00 | OCEVILLA/CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Scientists push leaders to act on micoplastics pollution

The tiny particles foul every corner of the Great Lakes, a source of drinking water for 40M people

By Michael Hawthorne CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Drop in the boreal forest of western Ontario, scientists do the unthinkable. They dump pollution into remote, soft contained lakes to see what happens.

Canadian researchers curtained off two halves of a lake during the late 1960s and denied each with different fertilizers. Their findings prompted mass or phosphorus-laden detergent that were supercharging algae blooms choking the Great Lakes.

They later documented

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how brain-damaging mercury spawed by coal-fired power plants contaminated fish, showed how gastrointestinal when burning fossil fuels creates acid rain, and demonstrated how thick Canadian crude oil called bitumen spreads after spills.

One of the latest experiments is unfolding amid the jack pine and spray-crimes stinging Lake 97S.

A newer team of scientists, led

by University of Toronto biologist Chelsea Buchman, churned a gallon of bright, color-coded microplastics into the water during each of the past three years — an amount intended to mimic bits of pollution in urban storm runoff.

Now the researchers are tracking the different types of plants, some of which rank to the bottom of the 62-acre lake and others that eventually blow or washed ashore.

Graduate students on Rochmar's team are dissecting fish and finding that manmade bits ingested by some of their catch

pansed from stomachs into fliers. The team is analyzing microplastics, painstakingly collected from plants, rocks, water samples and sticky traps erected along the shoreline.

All of this long-running research at the Experimental Lakes Area, or ELA, is geared toward persuading leaders in the United States and Canada to get off the sidelines and combat a growing, unclassified threat to the Great Lakes, the source of drinking water for 40 million people in

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Data centers near O'Hare get $100M in tax breaks

Leaders tout benefits as suburban homeowners worry about financial gap

By Alex Nitskin and A.D. Quig This story is a collaborative between the Illinois Answers Project and the Chicago Tribune.

More than a dozen data centers near O'Hare International, keepers are receiving tens of millions of dollars in local property tax breaks this year, shutting the financial burden into suburban homeowners even as local leaders tout the benefits of the explosive industry amid growing public backlash.

The impact lands hardest on homeowners in suburbs where the tax base loans on a handful of big businesses. Incentives to suburban Northside, the average homeowner would soon more than $2,000 on their annual tax bill — a difference of almost 20% — if local data centers did not receive valuation reductions and incentives, according to the analysis.

At least 18 northwest suburban data centers were made to further dollar breaks in their taxable value from Cook County officials — in one case landing on a valuation fee below what the business originally paid in May 2024.

Of those 18, 13 already had special tax incentives approved by local leaders that dramatically reduced the properties' tax burdens over a dozen years, even before the latest bond reductions. Two-thirds of them have a separate special state tax break that saves owners millions on sales and use taxes.

Combined, the assessment reductions and incentives has had nearly $2 billion off the taxable property value of data centers across just three suburbs — Elk Grove Village, Northside and Franklin Park — according to an analysis of the Illinois Answers Project and the Chicago Tribune. That trans-

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Once seen as improbable, 'miracle child' starts high school

Matthew Erickson was born with a rare and aggressive brain tumor

By Angie Leventis Lougez CHICAGO TRIBUNE

At the first glimpse of his newly primed high school 20-card, freshman Matthew Erickson jumped up and down with excitement, waving the little piece of plastic triumphantly in the air.

"Wow! I got it," he shouted in the halls of Hamley High School earlier this month during a mat-ride pickup event prior to the first day of class. "I love it."

The start of high school seemed an improbable milestone for Matthew almost 15 years

ago, when he was born with an extremely rare and often fatal hem of brain cancer.

A prenatal ultrasound just a few weeks before his birth had revealed the first sign of trouble. An excess of cerebral fluid had built up on the unborn baby's brain.

After delivery, the roughly 6-pound newborns were drowning and healthy, scoring high on the standardized infant assessment done after birth. Yet when surgeons drained the fluid, they discovered a large malignant tumor called chigh-grade glioma that had developed in the womb, engulfing most of the right hemisphere of his brain.

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Matthew Erickson, 75, huge his mom, Sue Erickson, with excitement as his school bus pulls up to function for his first day of freshman year at Huntley High School on Wednesday. STACBY WISCOTT/THEUNE

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Ethanol plant to pay for wetland restoration at wildlife refuge as part of pollution settlement

By Adriana Pérez CHICAGO TRIBUNE

A water ethanol refinery on the Illinois River near Peoria Bay from oilfield to fund efforts to restore the wetland and floodplain after a long year ago, highly-sweathed water discharges up to 80 degrees lower than permitted, threatening aquatic life.

The water plant's peak is court, never good for them; and that on the eclid, director of water policy at Prairie Rivers Network.

The nonprofit, alongside Sierra Club, served a senior citizen to use over reported permit violations, after which the Illinois Attorney General's office filed a lawsuit in only 2018 at the request of the Gillette Environmental Protection Agency.

We are managing to see the state work to protect its estuaries from the land and to a Wednesday news release. These wetlands will build floodplains, welcome waterfires, and remind us that every asset is dumping grounds, they are communities of life that need protection.

In its lawsuit, the state claimed that the Abu Pelon, LLC, formerly South Ethanol Policy - core willing plants which foreshadowed, constructed and currently the main lines offland for many peristals, both discharged thermal pollution into the river between January 2012 and October 2017. In water now, becoming the water use disorder oxygen and stress fish, as well as other aquatic wildlife and birds.

Further upstream in the Chicago River, a similar case, began building in 1950 when they Attorney General Lee Madigan filed a lawsuit alleging the cooling system under structure at Trump Town and against water from the river to prevent that water available fish and rumped from against the river. A billing thousands, and that the building prepared water has been the river that was by 10 degrees higher than Trump (higanyah) or will pay $14 million to the city that did a kill salt.

The salt against the ethereal plant also alleged some causes discharged at Harris and Arlington counties. Also has not admitted to or denied the allegations and the permit company. Also, it appears, could not be immediately reached for comment.

The county order filed August 1st against the allied marine factors to pay a $75,000 of plant per day to the water. Environmental Protection Trust Fund, as well as pay for a $125,000 wetland restoration project at Emington National Wildlife Refuge, further downstream to Public County, where over 2,400 acres are managed for the US Fish and Wildlife Service at the confluence of the Illinois and Illinois rivers.

In a Tuesday news release, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Randi called the agreement 'incorporated on that will protect the Illinois River for all who cope and rebound.'

'It's never been more important that Illinois would up to reduce our environment here as the federal government stepback from

in obligations to protect our resources for future greensome,' said Jack Davis, director of the Sierra Club's Illinois Chapter.

The project, to be managed by Paula Uulimaki, operates as gasstainers dedicated to waterfires and wetlands conservation, will replace a water control system and the property 'Wilder Trace' to restore watered flood plains that are located to the equestrian eaves. Life starts to evaluate by the end of November next year.

The Nature Conservancy has under taken similar restoration efforts to restore the wetland of nearby Emington Nature Preserve to the river. A water control structure between the river and the floodplain allows scientists to replenish and develop wetlands in new thermionic nature's seasonal cycles.

Letting water levels rise within the preserve law against life such as plants and fish thrive, while lowering levels a good for the soil and the wetland plants growing out, and less transitory birds have easily prey on fish.

While other habitats in the area are owned and managed by other conservation cooperating and state agencies such as the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, many backwater lakes and wetlands are being formed or are properly owned by private waterfires hunting dads.

The land's agricultural use dates back to when, for March, but also of Chicago's world-famous salt company, financial laws and drainage tiles and ditches in the late

1930s. By 1924, almost all natural lakes and floodplain habitats had been converted to the island.

Pruces Rivers Network said the agreement reaches water claims. 'Not not the facility's overall pollution protection.'

Over ethanol is marketed as clean, homogenous energy, but the record falls a different story record alleged permit violations. The company has the two Rivers' 1900s field cash. The also permit is a 2024 report from nonprofit Environmental Integrity Project, which found that two years earlier. Also had a permit referring almost 2,500,000 pounds of acetaldehyde, a hazardous gas and human carcinogen, as well as more than 6000 pounds of formaldehyde, which can also cause cancer.

'The problem extends beyond Public Prairie Rivers Network' added.

More than 60% of 2400 U.S. budget plants violated air pollution permits at least once between July 2021 and May 2024, according to the report, and Illinois ethanol plants alone released 2.2 million pounds of hazardous air pollutants in 2022.

'This settlement addresses serious patterns of exemplifying the use of clean bill of health for the facility or the ethanol industry at large.' threshold said. 'Communities should not have to trade clean water until clean air for an industry proposal up by public mandates and subsidies.'

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Homeowners are to block massive solar farm

By Alisha Nairne FOR THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE

'The fight against a controversial 8,100-acre solar farm is part of a Will County's new again headed to court.'

This time, 16 property owners near the 'Pride of the Prairie' solar project site have the largest ranking of revenue. May 21 decision by the Will County Board allowing the project, which would open 90-acre农村贫困户, will be the first 10,000 acres of land that are located to the equestrian eaves. Life starts to evaluate by the end of November next year.

In the lawsuit, the homeowners argue that residents' due process rights were denied because board members, who voted 12-8 to approve a utility-scale solar farm. The county's contract consider standards they typically consider, when reviewing, development proposals. During the May 2024, the Waterfront months later, the land's water facility start low and a 3rd District Appellate Court ruling, upholding the state's solar utility regulations.

Members of the public hold up signs at the Will County Board approach the Earthview Solar Farm project on May 21. In JUNE, ANTHONY PEREZ/CHICAGO TRIBUNE

'I do understand and I sympathize with the residents' board member, The Newspaper, a Mayor Democrat, said at the May meeting before coming a new lecture of the special we permit. 'We see it really both done with the fact that the state of Illinois has removed our discretion to the matter.'

The lawsuit names all 21 Will County Board members, Will County and Lincoln Solar, which is owned by Earthview Energy, as defendants.

The debate to continue, reversal of the May 21 decision, the unit also seeks an injunction preventing Earthview Energy from beginning construction as the state facility until the matter is resolved.

In an unsolicited statement, in Earthview, hydropower, described the lawsuit as

'We are confident that the project complies with all applicable state and county law, and that our permits were properly issued. The company said in its statement, 'We will respond vigorously through the legal process and are confident we will prevail.'

A spokesperson for the Will County Board, informed the office said the county was reviewing the recently filed lawsuit and would respond accordingly.

The county's other news debate of a planned vote in Earthview's 'Pride of the Prairie' project when a Will County judge called the county's new plan allowing Becker to cross-examine witnesses on issues of his claims during a two-day public hearing before the county's planning and zoning

commission. The commission was forced to hold a second public hearing allowing Becker to cross-examine witnesses from Earthview and present evidence and doubt of his claims.

Throughout the hearings, residents expressed concern that Earthview's guidance was incompleteness account for wetlands in the 90-perish and that the company did not work with investing, read officials regularly.

Despite the additional hearing, Becker's most recent filing illness the county's hearing process to an 'Illinois Prevention Village,' a phrase often said to describe it like a matter of the facts.

'Plaintiffs were denied a meaningful public hearing because all of the witnesses' individuals presented at the volunteers hearing, including 'Plaintiffs' cross-examination of the applicant's witnesses, was more considered by the Will County Board, including the decision, Becker wrote in the 66-page lawsuit.

County officials in May said Earthview's application was "unfair" - and that it met county and state standards. Even details, such as the exact location of solar eaves, will be addressed by the county's staff during the building permitting phase, official said.

Becker's case is scheduled for a case management hearing on Nov. 30.

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Prosecutor with colorful past back in spotlight

Hogan back at center of controversy in US attorney's office

By JOHN MOORE CHICAGO TRIBUNE

In have nearly 30 years since Chicago federal prosecutor William Departemont has old job back, returning to the city where he'd no basement of the day been office; it takes us $3.8k in street gang, only to be fired until a coastman that his cooperating witnesses had used drugs in jail, stolen examine prosecutors papers and had sex in government offices.

In Hogan's lengthy fight to live his name, he simply played out like a soap-up-eye script, with testimony about campaign visits, human memos, even illegal ads that for a gang kingpin. "That one has everything," the merit board judge Reading Hogan's face once quipped.

It was a battle that left just about everyone with a black eye, but Hogan eventually won. By the thought there behind attorney judge and overturned $3.8k in conviction due to Hogan's alleged misconduct, the administration judge overruled his firing, saying the Justice Department failed to prove any wrongdoing on the past. Hogan's story became one of redemption.

"I have never lost a moment along with that war over remaining in charge of whether I did anything illegal, unethical or improper," Hogan told The Associated Press in 1998. Shortly after swearing the post at 2013 Dearborn St.

But that focused some 24 years, and Hogan, when largely black from public view, is the cigarette subject of controversy at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse.

This time, he has contended the far less serious to the "Breakbow for" case against Operations Midway REI's precincts that dissolved in speciality before the 1st and 2nd of September of prosecutors and misconduct before the grand jury.

While Hogan, 75, didn't prevent the case for indictment, he has taken responsibility for reducing large portions of the grand jury from the 1st to 2nd. He had been handed up to the judge for review, leading to allegations for defense attorneys of an international crew up.

The case was a serious, but the name can be of an autopsy issued by U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutroff office last year regarding a Check of the Court. The case was raised raising firm once co-owned by the daughter of the judge in President Donald Trump's 2024 Bush money trial in New York.

The autopsies, which was first reported by The New York Times and has been reviewed by the Tribune, was obtained through a special grand jury on Aug. 28, 2025. A time of massive upheaval within the Justice Department that had prompted many other senior prosecutors to leave the U.S. about no further.

The broad demand for the potential contested referrals to the Justice Department by the U.S. House, Judiciary Committee in April 2025, after Mike Nolte, the founder of Judiciary, a campaign refused to comply with the committee's request for research.

"The grand jury request which has since been the subject of existence behind the screen litigation, sought records and communication from both men, had been the subject for, and a host of high-profile Democrats, including former Vice President Kamala Harris and Illinois US Roy Lauren Ude, who said:

"Underworn's congressional office refused questions to her campaign, which did not respond to a request for contention."

The U.S. attorney's office has so far not commented on the autopsies or said whether there is another investigation into the matter.

Assistant U.S. Attorney William Hogan at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago on March 14, 2013. NANCY STONE/CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Breakbow for defendants for King Faustin, Franklin, Michael Rallett, Anton Martin and Brian Straw embrace outside the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse after federal prosecutors developed advertising courts on May 21. JOHN BOLLARD/CHICAGO TRIBUNE

But critics have blamed it as another example of the draw of power by the Justice Department to banish the president's political adversaries.

"It's a shame that people like Trump and Hogan have destroyed the reputation of the Department of Justice by abusing their power to banish private citizens," Nolte told the Tribune last week.

Meanwhile, in a recent court filing in the Breakdown case, Boutroff office referred to Hogan, a 40-year veteran as "Empowered IN RAN," and explained the could have handled the reduction of the early.

For some longitunes in the Chicago legal community, the controversy swirls up around Hogan it deja in all over again.

One former assistant U.S. attorney who has been friends with Hogan for decades said it opposed his own office was once again throwing him under the box. Others see pardible in Hogan's strongly unbelievable indignation as her voice with a federal judge yet again.

"I would think that people learn from their mistakes, but sometimes they don't, defense attorney Richard Kling, who represented a reputed $3.8k in drug cases whose conviction went over turned down to Hogan's alleged improprieties.

RUMAN CASE

Hogan, who joined the Chicago US attorney's office in 1985, at the longest insured federal prosecutor in Chicago, said widely known as a smart lawyer and staged to defend at the virtues of the office. He also has a well-corrected report, one for reference and more for courtroom - which is the have described as arrogance - that still shows even their decades after the $3.8k in case.

Despite the take-down allegations against him back then Hogan had supported only the office and legal community who praised him as is not a case and precipled prosec-

ter who made it the moment to call Chicago of one of the most murderous criminal organizations the city had ever seen. In 1995, shortly after indictment were announced against one of the 1st $3.8k in members and associates, a triumphant Hogan posed for photos as bulldozer a raxed the gang's infamous "fort," a converted movie theater at 1995 and Detroit.

Hogan's professional downfall - and the reversal of many of the convictions for Douglas to lead to secure - was alternately described as a crisis of his own making and an unfair attack on his character by judges who were displaced with his combative, win at all costs attitude to court.

Most prominent were Hogan's battles with U.S. District Judge James Holden man, who, after a weekday hearing into wrongdoing by Hogan and his office, ultimately ordered new trials for several $3.8k in defendants, finding Hogan had engaged in extensive prosecutorial misconduct, led on the witness stand and turned a black eye to interpret drug use by his own informants.

"The prosecutors of a misconduct revealed by the post-trial evidence is disturbing," Holden man wrote in his opinion in June 1993. "It certainly does not reflect the manner in which the vast majority of the employees of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Chicago perform their duties."

After his firing by the Justice Department, Hogan hit back with a pain to point response at the court board, denying any knowledge of the transgressions the called dozens of witnesses as he was defended and reacprofited in local and national news outlets. In one interview with the Tribune, he described how his early meritorious life of attorney's office gave him the backbone to do his job without fear of any political blowback.

"They were people who believed strongly in public

service, in doing justice," he said in 1994. "You could go this job and not worry about who you were prosecuting, what political power they had, whose political nose would be one of just.

Four years later, when a merit board judge finally chameled into an extraneous 200-page opinion, Hogan got the news while viewing an outburst in Spide. He later held a news conference criticizing the Justice Department, saying it was 'scored' to back the findings of the district court against him.

"Rather than taking the politically repudiable step of specifically contradicting these judges and sending me back up into these courtroom, they tried the spot to see and say that they were in the door," Hogan said at the time.

MIDWAY BLITZ

Hogan had largely failed from the headlines since his commissioner, continuing a prosecutor mostly white-collar and financial crimes and winning his fair share of just trials.

Then came Operations Midway Blitz, the Trump administration's controversy and unresponsive enforcement action last year, which prompted a series of grievances and clashes on the city's streets, leading to an intense people being charged to the District Court with offense such as assaulting or imposing federal agents.

As the night's uppopular deportation operation continued, the cases floated on the charged soon began to fall apart in court. Grand juries refused to hold a courtroom case - a virtually unheard of occurrence. Prosecutors refused to be brought to court, and dismissed others whose evidence came to light that directly contradicted what agents had alleged happened.

Hogan personally handled one such case: Ude Sheridan, an Oak Parkman, was accused of shoring, by the Central Clerk Gregory Berke, who had been a protest at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Brooklyn over an 18-1. As that case was prepared to go before the grand jury, Hogan asked for a extraneous file on informant's274 prosecutors and continue to investigate, Hogan called the Tribune in an interview last fall.

During that time, the found someone had a camera "behind the lines when pulled the entire incident on video and demanded and to no other, and was not in the case," said. He filed a written plea for the case five. "I - can't do any month after the incident.

At the time, Hogan said the Sheridan case showed the

U.S. attorney's office doing no job correctly.

But judges were starting to take notice. In a blistering opinion granting dismissal of charges against another Midway Blitz protester, U.S. Magistrate Judge Gabriel Parente wrote that he could see 'help but now, not have unusual and possibly unprecedented 's of' her Chicago's worst life. U.S. attorney's office to bring charges 'so badly' that they would have to dismiss them once more, faces same out.

"Any respondent, federal prosecutor knows that federal charges or any actions by the United States Attorney directed at the citizen's, must be undertaken with the utmost care," Parente wrote. "The opinion was chosen by many, including, quietly, by some prosecutors in Boutroff office. Others, like Hogan, thought themselves were not at risk.

"Who does he think he is, prodefending like that?" Hogan told the Tribune of November a rehab of judges that some at the courthouse found an irony. "I have come in all years read an opinion, not only like that. It is shocking."

BROADVIEW SIX PLAP

Of all the cases coming out of Midway Blitz, it was the Broadview Six matter that would prove to be the most controversial.

The initial indictment charged each of the defendants, most of whom had ten to find Democratic policies, with a count of falsely conspiracy alleging their surrounds and Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicle in an attempt to impede the agent from the ruling the duties.

Hogan didn't take over the politically charged case until months later, after the original prosecutors, Sheri Mecklenburg, left the office for an assignment in Washington, DC, hereafter, as the defense continued to clamor for Perry to review grand jury transcripts in the case. Hogan dropped a homilight bill office was discussing the main conspiracy charge and intended to proceed instead with misdemeanor counts.

"The news, Hogan told the judge, would render the defense's continued requests for her to review unmolested, grand jury transcripts 'more.'" Perry agreed, and after some discussion about next steps, Hogan asked her: "Do you still want to be familiar the unmolested versions or should we wait?"

"Let's wait,," Perry responded.

"It is in the misdemeanor counts was set for late May, but meanwhile, defense attorney Christopher Parente

continued to push for Perry to review the entire grand jury record, particularly portions where the panel was instructed on the law.

A day before a hearing on that matter, Hogan recalled the judge's clerk asking if prosecutors still needed to appear more, as his office's view, the issue was mooted by the dismissal of the indictment.

In discussing the matter in court on May 7, Perry said she was under the impression that U.S. attorney's office had blacked out only a few lines of the transcript.

In fact, prosecutors had turned over heavily reduced transcripts that blacked out about 60 pages over three days of testimony. Neither Hogan nor anyone else on the prosecution team did anything to correct the judge's misunderstandings.

On May 16, Perry held a final pretrial, conference to go over logistics ahead of the trial and became agn-russed the grand jury issue. Finally, Perry agreed to take a look at the unmolested copies, but spanned: "I want to go there over like 15 lines with only $1.1 but to guess, it seems like those were probably related to IT issues plating the video, but I couldn't tell and that's who I asked for it."

Hogan did not object, saying, "We offered that weekdays."

Two days after being handed the full transcripts, Perry revealed that there had been what she deemed was shocking misconduct by Mecklenburg in front of the grand jury, including improperly 'washing' for the strength of the evidence, telling grand jurors who were skeptical that they should leave, and having 'no parts' communications with some jurors before finally securing an indictment.

But as disappointing as Mecklenburg's actions were, Perry said she found the apparent attempts to hide them from her even more upregime.

"When asked who was responsible, Hogan said, 'Mouth me, IT's like responsibility for it.'"

Hours later, Boutros appeared in open court to discuss the case entirely, in doing so, he defended the trial team, saying they believed the judge had asked for only the portion of the grand jury transcript whose jurors were in the district law, also known as the session "minims."

"I truly do believe that all officers prosecutors have, on the hand with the action of mislead your house," Boutros said.

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It's typically diagnosed in adults – only about 100 births each year are affected by the condition nationwide. The cause of the tumor was unknown, according to medical experts.

He did. Ben Erickson, had asked in disbelief if his own baby was dying – if Matthew was born dying.

Physicians explained that, except for the golf ball – the tumor, his son was healthy.

The Erickson could have opted to take the baby home with herpics care, keeping him pain-free until an insomnia and.

Instead, they chose to battle the cancer.

“It was like: Let's give him a chance here,” but dad recalled. “And that's what we did.”

During his short life, Matthew has endured to brain surgeries – the fear at just 4 days old – and as a couple of chemotherapy at Lure Children's Hospital in Chicago.

Dulford the “miracle child” of northwest ashore has Huntley. Matthew says is starving all of the typical back to school class and rhodes as he hopes he provides freshman year.

On the first day of school Wednesday, he kept saying, “wow” as he marveled at his new classroom, from his school biggars to the basement of a green on the back due to his dark white group pencil case on top.

He repeated the name of his special education teacher, “His female,” trying to get a just right.

In a Cuba shirt and black blue gym shoes, the twin-bugged several of the friends from middle school, showing them how tall he had grown over the summer. His close cropped hair on two white light 2-inch size on the back of his head, a remnant of its many surgeries.

When asked if he was at all nervous, Matthew firstly replied, “No way.”

And he was asked to find his new red locker, which was nearly identical to a 2-inch, 2-inch, and 2-inch except for a white sticker with his name affixed to the door. It's also secured with a special push-button lock.

– The same one he used in middle school – that's easier for him to operate than the round combination locks on most of the lockers through our the school.

When Matthew opened the door to put his black backpack into, he found a pink sticky note inside with a hand-drawn heart from his same burpee, who is on 10th grade at the middle of roughly 2,700 students.

“Can you believe I'm in ninth grade?” he recently asked to mention and father.

– I'm not sure what's still in area of how far than you, the youngest of these three children, has come since his, per from first five days of life.

“The fact there is, got out of middle school and now are going to get to high school, it's definitely not something that's not so so,” said the mom, Ben Erickson. “But just on these milestones, but on any given day.”

The Tribune has chronicled Matthew's against all-odds promotions since his father, counting many of his major childhood moments and lives (month).

He celebrated his economic thrifty with a "climbing party" – compared with a red and blue iced cake – surrounded by wild tires, friends, supporters of the commentary and a sight network of fellow families who were also battling brain cancer.

Gripping his Superman backpack in August 2024, Matthew's new school has to join his peers for his first day of hatching in ten, using a cubby labeled with his name and opening a growth bar at meals time with the help of an aide.

– In the last year, on May 10, she stole a chocolate birthday cake with immediate family to honor a decade of life, a series of COVID rules, and a couple left her for lunch household around that time, so friends and extended to a time dropped off grossen on the porch.

“I'm not sure how evidence of cancer is the few's roughly 5-foot 2-inch, 110-greater frame.

“This is a rare and aggressive tumor and ... Matthew

Friedman Matthew Erickson jumps with excitement after bringing paragon/hearout Melissa Reynolds a game on the first day of school at Huntley High School on Wednesday. STACEY WEISOTT/CHICAGO TRIBUNE PHOTOS

Matthew Erickson, 15, holds his dad Ben's hand while walking with his sister Sophia, 16, and more than during convention at Huntley High school on Aug. 5. Matthew is working in freshman year, and Sophia is a junior.

son a rare group of juniors who have survived,” said Dr. Rudy Allen, a neuro-oncologist at Lurie, during a July appointment. “We are thrilled that he is such a happy, energetic, joyous boy that we all smile when we are no brings joy to the world in a way that we are all so thankful for.”

The tumor was a formula for, the physician said. “Matthew was tougher,” he added.

“In his mother noted that her son still has to light to survive and throw away all.”

While the future of treatments and surgeries have been lost, they've also "wracked havoc" on his young body, the added.

Matthew faces arduous health struggles and raises the developmental challenges.

His vision and hearing are impaired and he has limited use of the left side of his body, including his arm and leg, as well as his tongue and mouth so that direction.

On a recent trip to Sam's Village in East Double, he rode the bumper cars but could only draw as circles because of his difficulty using his left arm.

His gait is a lot stilled and he sometimes needs help walking his left leg to a little shorter than his right and often has tremors.

Matthew undergoes periodic brain scans, which are a nerve-wracking time for his parents. There's always possibility the cancer might return, though this becomes much less likely the more time passes. In mid-August, the Ericksons celebrated its years of Matthew living with no trace of cancer, a positive sign and huge comfort to his family.

“But in the back of our minds there's still that happy, big but, knowing that it could change at any time,” Sue Erickson said.

Frequent migraines keep him out of school, tougher, until the academic year, the Ericksons are uncertain of their road cause, but they're meeting with a pain special at later this year in hopes of improving school attendance as well as his overall quality of life.

In some ways, Matthew's parent Ben Erickson is middle or kindergartener develop-

Sue and Ben Erickson watch as their son Matthew, 15, heads to his freshman year at Huntley High School on the first day of school on Wednesday.

Matthew Erickson, at 2 months old, lies in an operating room in a team of nurses and doctors persons who live from a supper on Feb. 28, 2012, at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago.

monthly. He wears diapers, his speech is sometimes heard, and he can have difficulty recognizing dangerous situations on his own.

At the same time, his mom and dad are sometimes struck by his unexpected level of cognition or a sudden ability to navigate the world physically. Using a new phrase Reading tougher words with ease. Stepping over an object with his left leg when he previously would have stumbled.

High school could be a time of great growth.

“He'll probably surprise us along the way,” Ben Erickson said.

IMMEDIATIVMS EVERY MOMENT

During Matthew's eighth grade promotion ceremony in Meir, he led the line of students processing into the Huntley High School gym to "Pump and Circumstances," passing occasionally to girls and over at his parents.

Matthew's name was

the first to be called out. He walked up to the stage via a camp with a little bit of time an aide but mostly on his own.

During the audience, he paused to pump his right leg in the air and jubileely hold up his own blue masking the culmination of middle school.

The entire gymnasium ceased with the first month of the loudest and most fervent applause of the evening.

His mom broke down and cried.

“It was overwhelming for me. He gave to school, but in and day out. I have done really get a glimpse into how he is or how his peers are with him and how they communicate with each other,” Sue Erickson said. “He, especially, needs parent, you just don't know how he's accepted it, if people are making fun of him.”

Someone explained to Matthew, he might not understand or be able to tell anyone, she said.

“You have and aides can say everyone loves him. You

hope that that's true. You don't really know,” the mom added. “But to see everyone get so pumped for him and without him is that moment, for me. I was looking my eye out.”

The parents say they don't take any of their time with Matthew for granted.

“We see Matthew as something that blows us away, something we never expected. We get to expect you this literally every single day,” Sue Erickson said. “And it could be something incredibly small, like he used his left hand to do something he's never been able to use if he before... Those little things, we get to experience those things, those you.”

They have many friends whose children had cancer but weren't as fortunate as Matthew.

“There's never a day that goes by that we don't appreciate those moments that we get,” Sue Erickson added. “Because so many of our friends didn't get those moments.”

The mom frequently posts short tributes on social media to honor the memory of kids who have died from cancer.

“That's that cancer rolled on world of this topical and spunk. Seven years was not enough,” she wrote on Facebook in Fall 2024. “I know her and Matthew would have been causing mischief together and would still be hurt for kids.”

“If there was a phone number to become that I wouldn't would call at many people that I love and miss so much,” she posted in spring 2025.

The mother describes a sense of survival's guilt whenever Matthew reaches a new stage of life, even though she knows more of their growing friends would want that to be.

“Those friends are also celebrating every single one of those milestones with us and would never want to be feel that guilt,” she added. “Even if it's hard for them to they heart, they continue all of those with us.”

DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE

Matthew is typically a high-energy, effervescent and interested kid.

But on the first day of freshman year, he was on a whole other level of collaboration, repeatedly high-firing every staff member and student he encountered multiple times before the start of his first class.

“I can't believe it's ninth grade. High school” he told everyone, shaking his head.

He passed to medical goal of orange sunglasses with "free" and "fair" written on each line for a photo taken by the faculty, snagging for the camera before voluntarily returning the shades another student could wear them and also be photographed.

His schedule includes corn classes like social studies, language arts and science. He and his favorite subject is math.

He's also taking a course in job skills as well as adoptive physical education – his first class of the day – which is

modified in various ways for students with special needs.

“I love you,” he said at the start of his physical education class, before walking in the first class. “I'm not down of his fellow students in the gymnasium to warm up. I am so happy for this.”

His physical education class is a good, special, who has taught him since looking down, said Matthew is "sensitive," bringing positive energy whenever he goes. “He wants to meet everybody,” she added. “He wants to include everybody.”

The district's special education program are designed to ensure students have access to the local schools. The state's current most possible, said Dole Gill, assistant superintendent of special services for Huntley Community School District 1000.

“We have spent a lot of time focused on meaningful inclusion for our students with disabilities – making sure they have access to rigorous instruction and rigorous programs and making sure their teachers have what they need to provide in the rigorous instruction,” she said. “But also keeping in mind that our students have really unique needs.”

He added that it's important to understand that special education students "are general education students first."

“I often talk about how our students with disabilities are the one I see the so,” she said. “They are students who are gone ad and they may need some additional support and services.”

Sue and Ben Erickson said they've always been happy with Matthew's individualized education programs. She legal document that guides the special education plan for students with disabilities, as well as the services he's received through the district.

They are also concerned with his grades and more interested in him learning things like roundnuts like skills, collaboration with other students on problem solving, and getting more practice in social situations.

They know he financial, occasionally where he's around large groups of kids. Having a young person between classes, he's known to give us the heedle of high-flow to friends and strangers alike.

“He really knows us that his like-snapping other people make and laugh,” Sue Erickson said. “He's been a energy from other people.”

Her tougher, hope for Matthew's next four years is what his presence at school spurs a greater understanding and comparison for kids with special needs among the general student population.

“I want him to make friends and just be happy. And hopefully change the people's perspectives,” his mom said. “I hope that him loving on those people – and hopefully them loving on him too – will give up their hearts to see let just Matthew but the other special of kids in school and life differently. And see those through a different lens.”

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Budget uncertainty looms as students head back to school

By Paul Grimson CHICAGO TRIBUNE

When teacher assistant Jared Edwards was laid off at Curtis Elementary in Rowland this summer, it was the second consecutive year his position had been cut. This time, he began it won't be permanent. As Chicago Public Schools moves to restore some layoffs, his principal told him he could be called back.

But with classic beginning Monday, a decision about his return could still be won't away: "My biggest concerns just the impact on the classroom," he said.

Last month, school board members aligned with the Chicago Teachers Union approved an amended $10.0 billion budget directing CPS leaders to rescind hundreds of layoffs. The plan began on $100 million in unconfirmed news funding that CPS officials warned, could leave CPS vulnerable to credit-dowing also, higher borrowing costs and midyear out of the money doesn't materialize.

CTU and its allies counter that the risk underscores the need for the state to provide more funding for CPS rather than force schools to absorb staffing cuts.

CPS is taking steps to restore some positions, but questions must be raised to the process will unfold as the school now begins.

Earlier this month, the district said the money allocated in the budget won't be enough to restore every unspread position, which includes more than 700 teachers. Meanwhile, CPS and the CTU still face an uphill battle as Springfield because the additional funding—with no clear indication that the money will come through.

Before the board's vote, the state president of the Chicago Principals & Administrators Association, voiced support for the amended budget and the new plan, with that this week, she said the timing has created an adobe burden for principals, arguing that "this should have been done in the spring."

"The budget amendment being done at the late time it was, especially without consultation on what it would take to actually restore the positions, has created complications that I don't think the board members fully comprehend," Banks said.

Principals are not being required to reopen their school budgets, which were finalized in June. They were sent a survey earlier this month, obtained by the Tribune, asking them to read their security sheet critical eliminated positions. CPS said it will prioritize positions ranked high by principals if the affected employees want to return.

Banks said the process could take "anywhere in the two weeks to be months."

Speaking at the board meeting earlier this month, one principal said changing

Students and parents live up to receive school supplies in preparation for the first day of classes at Burnham Math and Science Academy in Chicago on Friday. ANTOINU PERD CHICAGO TRIBUNE

"The budget amendment being done at the late time it was, especially without consultation on what it would take to actually restore the positions, has created complications that I don't think the board members fully comprehend."

KABANIS, president of the Chicago Principals & Administrators Association

school budgets could create "a massive, unnecessary distraction."

"We need to launch this year with clarity and positive momentum, but classic endowments," said Jeffrey Finelli, the principal of Edison Park Elementary in Norwood Park.

A CPS spokesperson did not respond to questions about how many principals had taken the survey or the district's timeline for the process. The district also did not say how many positions will be restored, but stressed it is working with school leaders to "evaluate needs, make decisions and implement offers as efficiently as possible."

This week, CEO Macquline Reag traveled to Springfield to meet with lawmakers as the district leader to drain up some revenue. CPS has also hosted weekly budget updates for families in the lead up to the start of school.

Still, some parents say the process remains unclear—and express hesitation in referring on shaky state funds. Stephen Mitchell, chair of the Local School Council at Brownsville Classical Elementary, said he had doesn't know whether the district will restore any of the positions the school lost, including one teacher who

was teaching assistants.

"The last I heard is that some of the positions we thought we were losing, they're on the fence," Mitchell said. "Families are losing the pinch."

Mitchells well acquainted with right budgets. For the past two years, the LSC has rejected the school's spending plan to protest its funding and staffing allocations, he said, a largely symbolic move because control officer retains final financial authority over schools.

But while Mitchell stressed that the school's funding levels are "simply not sustainable," he worries the state will not ring up.

"You're relying on somebody that has failed to put you money in the past, to save pay you money," Mitchell said. "They arguably own it, but I'm just wondering how that's going to work. And if they don't pay, what happened?"

CTU, meanwhile, has landed the district for beginning the renewal process. The union has repeatedly pointed to the state's Evidence-Based Funding formula, which says that CPS is funded at last 10% of adequacy. In an email to members earlier this month, CTU officials said: "This is what a strong start to the school year looks like."

"All that the board is trying

to do better," said Edwards, the land office also assistant. "I do have faith in the budget. We're going to continue to have this problem year after year, until the governor gets his side."

Mom of five DeLiza New Williams, LSC chair at Real Elementary in Chatham, recognized that the district's chronically underfunded, but said she believes the district needs "to "full" itself and bakes turning to the state.

She's worried about the possibility of midyear cuts, and what she could mean for the next year.

"Us not knowing this answer today, does better school starts, is just not showing great stability for our students and students," he says. "Williams said, 'What plan is in place? Are you calling Chicos the Rappet? In this is where I'm in?'

Aside from state revenue, another funding source that could fill the gap is a surplus from tax increment financing districts, or TFR. The district's current budget assistant $300 million in TFR funds, though the final amount will be set by City Hall later this year. Last year, the district received a record $375 million from TFR more than twice as a system assumption. But some board members have said there have been no conversation with city officials to suggest that level of funding will return.

Without retirement by the end of December, the district said it will have to resort to cuts. Earlier the summer, the district proposed a single-up ending freeze and free furlough days to help close to $752 million budget payments that could be back on the table.

Even if additional funding, we're to materialize on Springfield, it's unlikely the money would reach the district in time to affect this fiscal year, according to CPS.

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The Score drops morning show co-host Mulligan after nearly 20 years at the Chicago sports station

By Robert Channick CHICAGO TRIBUNE

The Score, WSCR-AM 676, has parted ways with longtime morning show co-host Mike Mulligan.

A former Sun-Times sportwriter, Mulligan has been morning co-host since 2009, teamed up for the past eight years with David Hough, ending the

"Molly and Hough Show" a staple of Chicago's leading sports radio station.

On Monday, the station will announce a new morning show co-host for budget a former Tribune sportwriter, according to an employee memo sent out Friday by Mitch Rosen, vice president of the Score.

"Today, we made some very difficult programming decisions," Rosen said in the memo, which was released by the Score, and now more than 20 years with The Score, we have parted ways with Mike Mulligan of the 'Molly and Hough Show'.

In addition to jettisoning

Mulligan, the station has also cut Some midday co-host Marshall Harris. The show will continue Monday with his two former partners, Lally Balram and Mark Green, still behind the mix.

Mulligan became morning co-host in 2008, shifting from middays with his then on-a-partner Brian Hanley. The 'Molly and Hanley Show'

supplied a Score mainstay Mike North in morning drive.

While Mulligan left the Sun-Times to become a full-time radio host at The Score, he returned to print as a special contributor to the Tribune from 2011 to 2022, filing regular sports columns for the newspaper.

In 2018, The Score dropped Hanley, also a former Sun-Times sportswriter, replacing him with Hough. Now after 20 years at The Score, Mulligan has been excised from the on-a-literage as well.

"Molly has been a vital part of The Score family and a major part of our history"

and success," Rosen said in the memo. "We are incredibly grateful for his many contributions over the past two decades."

Launched as a daytime-only AM station more than three day also sign, The Score has long been the Chicago sports radio leader, from the Balls there post-glare days to Sen. Hawke and Cabs championship—and many lean years in between. Mulligan has been part of the mix for much of that run, in the most prominent daypart, making him perhaps the signature personality for the stations during the new millennium.

In February, station owner Andrey began simulcasting The Score on co-owned 2047 FM, converting the classic top-hop stations to the sports format in a bid to expand the station's reach. The Score's programming includes Cabs and Balls play-by-play, along with a full roster of sports talk shows.

The ratings, however, have remained flat this year, with the WSCR-AM/FM simulcast ranked No. 15 among Chicago stations in July with

±2.7 share, according to Nielsen. Shiding up the morning and middle show may be an effective, unproven range for the all-sports station.

Harris joined The Score in 2022 and became midday co-host with Dan Bernstein in September 2024. When Bernstein was head in March 2025 over a social media student, Harris was soon paired with Kalman, a veteran TV writer, and he was also a member of the first female lead sports radio host on The Score.

At the time, the success "Kalman and Harris" show featured station Boards (sports) down as a recurring guest. Starting Monday, the show will be billed as "Kalman and Harris" with Harris already posting the respectively leading and the Lollard's page.

"We thank Marshall for his time with The Score," Rosen said in the memo. "He has been a great teammate and a special person who has team, and we wish him the very best at the future."

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An airplane flies near the EdgeCrowell data center campus, right, on July 22 in Elk Grove Village. Two of the company's data centers near O'Hare International Airport were the subject of property tax appeals battles this year brought by the Cook County assessor. STACEY WESCOTT/CONCAGO TRIBUNE

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lates to almost $100 million into a property and total base otherwise meant lower tax bills for neighboring property owners and more many for local infrastructure. The facilities represent a fraction of the more than 100 data centers already operating across Cook County, with more under construction.

Many of the reductions are decided in sparsely attended hearings, before agencies many taxpayers have never heard of. But the makes are high as the county assessor, local taxing agencies and data center operators battle over how the properties should be valued for property tax purposes, often ending up twice after 10 million dollars apart. How to value data centers is Cook County remains unsolicited, and local governments sometimes disagree with the assessor.

Data center developers and their allies say the businesses need the breaks to operate successfully. The alternative, they argue, is that properties sit vacant or draw lower value industries that would contribute less to the tax base.

Even with the tax breaks, "the data center is still paying a significant share in property taxes," said Brad Tuck, Midwest director of government affairs for the State Center Coalition, a pro-industry lobbying group. "If you don't get the project you don't get any of those revenues."

In all, the 10 data centers paid nearly $75 million in property taxes for the 2025 tax year. The three data centers in Northlake show made up about 28% of the city's tax base last year. The Illinois Assessor and Tribune analysis also included 10 data centers in Elk Grove Village, three in Franklin Park and one each in Des Plaines and Mount Prospect.

Tuck has already seen Illinois' Pulp in slip "in the rankings among states counting data center operators, with developers increasingly eyeing more tax-friendly states, he said.

"Others argue that prime real estate spur a reliable water supply, consistent power and flow-sync lines on the numbers of a major city are incentive enough.

"We are talking about corporations that are spending about $800 billion on building data centers this year," said Kane Tarczynska, a senior research analyst with Good Jobs First, a Washington, DC-based group of business against corporate subsidies.

"They have all the cash to build these data centers, so for sure they have enough revenue and income to pay

Cook County Assessor P代-Keegi speaks with reporters at his office in Chicago on June 29. Keegi's office has been fighting property assessment appeals from data center operators, but the assessor has had mixed results. ANTHONY PEREZ/CONCAGO TRIBUNE

Workers build the Prime Data Center at 1500 E. Higgins Road in Elk Grove Village on July 22. The village welcomed its first data center more than two decades ago and has become a data center not just because of its property, to their lives, large industrial sites, and business-friendly local leaders. Village officials have already approved a property tax incentive for the Prime Data Center development. STACEY WESCOTT/CONCAGO TRIBUNE

their taxes," Tarczynska said. But for local residents, librarian and villages, "these couple of millions of dollars a year might make a huge difference when it comes to funding basic services for people." Every assessment reduction means higher bills for other taxpayers.

REDUCTIONS

Many of the valuation cuts were fiercely opposed by Fritz Keegi, the outgoing Cook County assessor. Keegi has long argued commercial properties have been basically undervalued, and he has worked with limited success to raise their valuations. In recent years, he has turned his focus to data centers. Keegi has criticized attorneys who specialize in commercial property tax appeals. His team is now serving in an appearance on arguing that breaks granted to data centers rest unlovedly, estimates they present as the primary evidence in local appeals.

Elected leaders across the country are working to balance a tsunami of interest from data center developers against growing backlash from residents concerned that the facilities are draining water, polluting the air and spilling energy costs.

Data centers are a flashpoint in the property tax community because of wide disagreement over what should count in an assessment — a dispute that has produced yawning gaps between the first draft values uniquely. The Keegi's office and what property tax attorneys argue on appeal the buildings are worth.

Take, for instance, the Microsoft Azure data center in Northlake. This year, Microsoft presented an appraisal during its appeal placing the value at nearly $250 million.

Keegi's office, though, had valued it at nearly $100 million. That evidence came from David Lehman, the office's director of valuation research and Keegi's deputy

in the fight against data center appeals. A certified appraiser, Lehman has taken the oncning of net cash during his own reports but also defending them in appeals hearings, where evidence from appellants like Microsoft or other big building owners has historically gone uncontested.

Through a spokesperson, Microsoft declined to comment.

Lehman said the lawful tactics have cropped up in multiple ways, thus it also corresponding the value of the land. In places like Elk Grove Village, land is especially valuable for data centers because of its proximity to Shor lines, ready access to power, business-friendly local leaders, industrial sound line and space to build big. Another tactic is to ignore the value of expensive systems such as buying power generators and chillers, with attorneys arguing those assets are not permanent fixtures that qualify as property. To block that

trophole, Lehman contends data centers should be valued not by price per square foot but by kilowatt — how much power it can generate.

To Keegi, prior property assessment cuts granted to data centers were "aggregated" and observed special attention for several reasons, chief among them that it's a new industry where care law isn't settled. The International Association of Assessing Officers has assembled a task force to study the issue.

"There's an opportunity to see a norm here that can be very impactful," Keegi said in an interview. "There are also some of the biggest properties, as that's generally the best thing for the buck for the taxpayer... Spend our time and resources on the things that make the biggest difference for the greatest number of people."

Even so, "we recognize that it's not a laptop," he conceded.

Appraisers choose from a range of methodologies that can produce drastically different final values: how much it would cost to replace, how much income it would generate if leased, and how it compares to similar building sales. Such approach leaves room for interpretation.

Keegi's job is to set values based on his office's estimate of what the property would fetch on the open market.

But there's a shortage of leasing and sales information for data centers, which are "probably the most secure two property type there is," said Justin Eimers, an assessment advisor with the 24/40 and the former county appraiser for Illinois County, Kansas. "And understandably, That's trying to stay competitive and... they want to keep their object."

Lehman's analysis of the Microsoft property at 401 Northshore Ave. in Northlake included the site's 2009 sale price $852 million. Since then, Microsoft made it loan $450 million in upgrades, according to permitting data the assessor's office pulled. "That's how he reached his valuation of $673 million — more than three times the value estimated by a private appraiser recruited by Microsoft.

In his appraisal, Lehman counted three "major buildup revenues," such as leasing generators and chillers, as "assumed to the continuous operation of a data center," the argued that "if any of these major building systems were to be removed, the fault to would no longer function as a data center."

These systems count as "real property" and should be included in the assessed value, Lehman said. It's a distraction that carries major weight, since these major building systems can

cost tens of millions of dollars depending on a center's size. Illinois "gives a very, I think, unsatisfying definition to ensure about what counts saved property," according to Geoffrey Prophesie, a University of Colorado Denver associate professor who studies property tax issues and tax systems. But Prophesie generally sides with Keegi that vital equipment, such as backup generators that provide continuous power, should consist of real property.

"What really matters here is whether or not, if you remove the fixture from the real property, draw it change the value of the real property? That's your litmus test for whether or not property should be treated as permanently fixed or not," he said.

"I see it as HVAC in the house, or a boiler in an apartment building, right?" Prophesie said. "And in those instances, those are permanent — from a legal standpoint, from an assessment standpoint — permanent fixtures.

At his client's request, Microsoft's appraiser, Kevin Byrnes valued his building as if "virtually all of the systems and installations apart from the base building and itself should not count toward the final value, Byrnes wrote in his appraisal.

Byrnes noted in an interview that Keegi's office previously treated data centers as "presented skulls," but in the "last few years, it seems like their values have gone up a lot higher than they used to set them," he said. Now the office has to achieve much transfer pay for power generation, or "kilowatt cost."

Because data centers could income is based on power capacity, Lehman argued, value per kilowatt is more relevant than value per square foot of the building. In size calculation for the Microsoft building, he estimated the total development cost was $5,200 per kilowatt, or $425 million.

Other assessors across the country are doing the same, the 24/40's "Eimers" said, including in Virginia, one of the leading markets for data center development.

"That's the way the market is acting, that's what buyers and sellers are looking at, he an assessor... you're trying to replicate the market, so you want to look at what buyers and sellers are looking at," Eimers said.

Byrnes wouldn't say which measurements brought even unrelent. "That's really ways to sort of skin the car," he said.

The board set the Microsoft data centers' final value at about $164 million.

In another case, the owner of an Elk Grove Village data center argued the facility on a worth about $21 million —

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roughly $1 million less than the owner practice the property in 2016. The appraiser is hired from the Chicago-based Real Estate Analysis Corp., called it a “typical warehouse building” and said nearly all its equipment is “personal property” included from valuations under state law.

Experts described the tactic as a violation of the “dark store theory” of a argument big-bus retailers have used in property tax valuations battles contending they should be valued at if the buildings were situated in the vacant because they would be difficult to sell for other uses.

“It’s kind of (for937) a) I would be an in-tremor-truth; two if I didn’t have a little bumper, and oullabodea,” Kang said. “It’s a way to sell of were away a large element of the value. By saying, it’s not real estate, it’s personal property.”

The industry’s economic makes data center buildings especially hard to assess, according to Prophecy. Unlike apartment buildings or office covers, data center have rarely changed hands on the open market and leaving information is largely unavailable, making it difficult to sell or import the land.

Some appeal appraisals have relied on sales of much smaller or older buildings, or buildings in less desirable areas without the need to the same power and fiber lines.

“There’s absolutely no aggregate, there is no review analysis, either by data center compliance rate or by any other third party proprietary or even government. I cannot go look up wholesale lease prices for a variety of data centers,” Prophecy said. “It can be highlights that information, problems that there is no unit-setscrany yet to widely disseminate information about the state of the market.”

The answer everyone can cherry-pack, because every once you slightly sell or import information, “he said.

In his fight against the $10 million agency, Lehman signed the true value was $100 million higher — and more than $40 million higher than Kang’s earlier assessment for estimated that land, building and site improvement were worth at least $67 million, and that the county’s 2016 mortgage was worth $231 million. He described national reports that the data center was a “few industry and Illinois in 1996 and away the most dominant data center market in the Midwest.”

The Board of Review ultimately asked with Kang and Lehman, holding the $70 million value Kang had initially set their own one-piece property. The company’s board kept Kang’s valuation in place, out of 24 data center appeals Lehman personally contested with the board.

A MEGASTAIN OF APPEALS

Property owners, especially commercial owners, have little to have been working their assessments. Many property tax attorneys work on contingency’s status a cut off be coming. Often receive reduction. Lehman said the appraiser’s that attorney’s law is “unwilling to pay for,” and to the industry’s offering lower early estimates than their competitors to win business.

The country’s Board of Review has issued 2002/03 appeals for its 2023 session, 2018 issue, more than 32,000 were commercial cases. Lehman, who has a staff on three but seven the appeals channel, can choose only a few major initiatives fighting a short window. The board made through the appeals or other major business meetings, always under pressure from the next assessment cycle around the center.

Commercial cases are more complex, typically involving hundreds of pages of information that are often from the appellant. Until recently, the assessor didn’t present arguments to support specific property valuations. The company’s board’s report, staff with little to weigh against the appeal.

“Given the limited availability of computer data, the company’s table sales were of limited usefulness and represented only one of several factors considered in the board’s evaluation,” Board

David Lehman, the Cook County assessor’s office director of valuations research, argues property tax appeal after men and operators are vastly underestimating the value of data centers at the expense of local taxpayers. “When you include a $500 million data center, it should be valued at $100 million, and it should be the appraiser down to $250 million, and that’s what I think is wrong with the system.” EUGENY M. MELGAR-CWILKIN TRINOR

The Microsoft Azure data center at 450 Northman Ave. in NorthMan on Aug. 25. Microsoft presented an appraisal valuing it at nearly $250 million, but the Cook County assessor’s office arguably was worth nearly $500 million. BRUNWALT/DALY HERALD

of Review spokeswoman Sharon Francisco said in an email: “The board or daunties complete a 2024 better making an independent determination based on facts and applicable law.”

If property owners do not get the other they’re seeking at the county level, they can take their case to the state’s Property Tax Appeals Board, whose clean-data approach to evidence means appellant appraisals may contain more weight. Unlike the Board of Review, PTAB sometimes takes years to reach a decision and can avoid interaction related to a grant’s reduction. Appellants can also take their case to circuit court.

“When you have a system that doesn’t hold a pressure to counterbear into assaults, low values, and you have a system that incentivizes high-value property owners to appeal, what happens to be involved in the system,” Lehman said. “The assessor is overwhelmed with appeals. The board is overwhelmed with appeals. PTAB is not disclosed with appeals, and circuit court is overwhelmed with appeals.”

The risk of paying out just refunds from current budgets on public-activating districts — especially schools, the biggest stakeholders among property tax collectors — to strike preemptive settlements with large property owners before PTAB rules, sometimes involving multiple or deals to kick in tax scenario.

“You want to minimize the refund,” said Ann Dalman, an attorney at Franzoel, PC who serves as general counsel to multiple Illinois school districts that intervene in property tax appeals. “I am large property owners are seeking breaks. Though districts can ‘recapisce’ a refunded money by raising their property tax for the following year, ‘school districts don’t want to be in the additional tax burden to the rest of the community. The reception amount is sometimes $4.54, $4.69, $4.69 million every year.’”

(Editor’s note: The Franzoel firm represents the publisher of the Illinois Answers Project, the Better Government Associates, an associated manual.)

In one case, though both the assessor and the school district bought a data center cut, that didn’t mean they were allies.

On Grove Village Mayor Craig Johnson stands in front of an Abpact Data Centers building in a business party in 2019 on Village on July 9. The Abpact Data Centers are the newest. On Grove Village data centers nearing completion. Without incentives, he argues, 6% Grove Village residents are to testify jobs and tax revenues to reappear by DuPage County. EUGENY M. MELGAR-CWILKIN TRINOR

Data center owner Digital Realty hired the appraisal firm Urban Real Estate Research Inc. to appeal a NorthMan property assessor Kang’s office initially valued at $191 million. The appraisal from the data center were came at $94.2 million.

Lehman prepared his own appraisal. He argued his opponent had drastically underestimated the value of the facility’s power-generating capacity and tested it sold for $107 million nearly a decade earlier.

Immediately after the hearing, however, Lehman and Kang were floated to learn that Digital Realty had already reached a settlement with the Layden Township school district, valuing the property at $61.5 million, and that the Board of Review supported it.

“I was appalled,” Kang said. “The whole idea of intervening and appearing more before the Board of Review had of gain understated if you have taxing bodies unilaterally narrow during.”

Dalman, who represented the school district in the settlement, said the negotiated value was close to the appraisal the district had professionally done. He predicted the underlying battle — how equipment is treated — will go on for a while.

A spokesman for Digital Realty reiterated that the settled amount was “supposed by several independent appraisals. We remain committed to the Chicago Bankers for the long term, paying our fair share and being good-boughted in the communities where we

operate.

“We’re in the same way that we’re in the same way that we’re in the same way that we’re in the same way that we’re in the same way that we’re in the same way that we’re in the same way that we’re in the same way that we’re in the same way that we’re in the same way that we’re in the same way that we’re in the same way that we’re in the same way that we’re in the same way that we’re in the same way that we’re

“You other data center cases that Lehman bought ended up being settled well.

“Nothing, about this system is fair for the area, age taxpayer, for the future owner,” Lehman said. “Nothing.”

INCENTIVES

Eleven of the 18 (9)heavers data centers include in the Illinois Answers and Tribune analysis operate under special tax incentives, which Cook County grants to newly built industrial buildings, or those replacing a bankhead or rehabilitation industrial property. The tax breaks have become preliminary, sometimes any person a property merely the qualifications.

Once a place, the incentive accounts (all) reduces a property’s taxable value for 60% for 10 years, then gradually reduces to another over the final two-year. Incentives can be reserved and industrial matters difficult.

Elk Grove Village is now close to 20 data centers, with another five-mileer construction.

Active tax incentives are five data center companies in Elk Grove Village. The more than $290 million in taxable value have not adding up to about $54.6 million in total tax savings. One new Without those incentives, the money Elk Grove Village businesses’s property has bill would have been roughly $10 lower this year, according to the analysis.

The relief for local home owners would be more dramatic if not for the Bruce/Elmhurst tax increment financing district,

which diverts property tax growth from more than half a dozen data centers into a special infrastructure fund controlled by the village, instead of flowing to local governments and raising the tax burden on neighbors.

The incentives and Board of Review reductions mean one of millions lower dollars infusing the TIF district, which village officials see they have tugged for road movement to turn, sewed appraises and street fighting pressure.

Elk Grove officials have asked the county to approve tax incentives for all five facilities currently under construction, plan two-mileering facilities.

Elk Grove Village Mayor Craig Johnson, who welcomed the town’s first data center in 2003, called the tax savings figure misleading. He noted that even with incentives, data centers generate far more property tax revenue than the industries that previously occupied the same properties.

“Down best barings to give incentives? No. But we are put in this position, and we have to find the best way to stay successful,” Johnson said.

Emerging the incentives, Johnson said, would risk data center operator paying over Elk Grove Village as have to be able to nearby DuPage County, where industrial properties are not assessed in a higher level than homes, the way they are so local to make it. But the village has never removed the specialized tax breaks. Describing the tradeoff as “short-term payouts to the government holders of the long-term benefit of winning businesses that centers in a third, are better neighbors than many other industrial taxes — they have right security, draw little truck traffic and donate to community causes.

Mayor Jeffrey Sherwin of NorthMan agrees. Sherwin said his city only recommends no incentives to case where officials are confident a deal would generate more taxes than on existing property. That has been the case for the Digital Realty data center, which operates under an incentive but paid more than $2 million in taxes last year. Its owners were paying $672,000 to a decade earlier, where I was being converted into a data center.

“We always look at ‘Will tax revenue increase as a result?’ And if it does, they don’t have to do, they’re sure. ‘We don’t need to be huge down,’ if we don’t give them the incentives, we could put all their additional revenues. But then maybe we wouldn’t have the development.”

The mayor added that he has been taken aback by the surge in public backlash against the facilities.

“Free money, data centers, we’re welcome,” Sherwin said. “I don’t know what’s caused things to turn around, but now it’s like they’re ‘both’ baker.”

“We are respectable to breaks made for difference in development. It’s time to build in places like Northlake and Elk Grove Village. The two communities offer uniquely

question industrial tracts at the source of major fiber optic lines and on the favoring of one of the world’s busiest airports, with ample economic power to cover and choose customer base in Chicago.

“Eucalines in the regions already have all those things going on for those,” said Tim Brown, a senior business attorney going Good Jobs First. “So when there’s companies come and out, ‘Hey... You need to give us a subsidy, if not, we’ll go out and here else, I just don’t expect it.”

Tax checks printed to a 2018 study of dozens of tax incentives granted to corporate operators around the country. It estimated the break made a decision difference in profitability for only about one-quarter of the facilities studied.

Cook County leaders have signaled a new willingness to reconsider tax incentives in recent months. In December, a property tax reform working group coordinated by County Board President Tom Pockiewsky’s office published a report recommending that the county transfer in its current “by-right, dual-use” programs to qualifying companies into something more tailored, with tiered awards and money.

For data centers, the county’s approved property tax subsidies were layered into at least $278 million in estimated state tax breaks, plus additional overstops from the federal government on the 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act. President Donald Trump’s tax and spending legislation.

After the Illinois General Assembly this spring posted an legislation that would have established a foreign state and energy use standards, Gov. Dr. Pridder issued an executive order on June 1 temporarily passing applications for the state’s data center tax credit program. That order does not prevent new data center development or import regulations.

Tax records said themselves and taxpayers would be betterworthily a pauper/shells incentive programs and have data center construction.

“This is not a stand-by-whopping and growing industry-whigable, which are just a few steps behind it,” she said. “Businessmen on the construction of data centers would really give many time to verify, such as to with the industry, with what’s going on and create rules and policies, and what’s going on to state budget, but also people.”

But Elk Grove Village’s Johnson isn’t slowing down.

“One data center company, Abpact, is waving down that high—and you offer building owners, including the former ADP payroll building, to build new data center space. After suffering space at the Zurich headquarters in Schaumburg, there’s a world of new, 2000-year-old. The obsolete building can grow, Zurich’s 8th-up vacant space, and his village remains on the cutting edge.

“That’s what,” he said.

Only to a reporter for the Tribune. Nitish is a reporter for the Illinois Answers Project.

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Naperville City Council members want more time and information before passing a ban on the sale of kratom products in the city.

Ordinances already restrict the sale of kratom to anyone under the age of 21 and prohibit its permission by anyone under age 18, but last month the Naperville Liquor Commission recommended stronger local laws against the sale of kratom products. Health experts have raised concerns about new synthetic variations of the drug, which are producing a stronger, more special-like effect.

But on Tuesday, a more complex picture of kratom products emerged.

Some individuals and health experts shared their negative experiences with kratom products and the difficulty with regulating it.

"I found (Kratom-based drink) Pool Pros on a health and wellness pod, not thinking it was something that was actually going to give me health benefits ... I made it two years later, April 19, 2025, in a dance unit at Edward (Hospital)," Naperville resident Ashley Wors said.

Wors, who spoke Tuesday, previously detailed her addiction to Pool Pros to the liquor commission, citing the "horrible heart palpitations" and "panic attacks" that resulted from her addiction.

On the other hand, a number of advocates opposed to the retail ban spoke about the benefits they're received from non-synthetic kratom products.

"I have been living with pain for many of my 70 years. Most recently, I had a fall, which resulted in a double fracture of my last wrist," Dr. Webster said. "I was able to take kratom, and my pain went from a time of 10 to a tolerable four or five within 45 minutes."

Due to other health issues, Webster said she cannot take into inflammatory medications. She hasn't had any side

effects from her consumption of natural leaf kratom products, she said, and urged the council sort to ban it.

"Natural kratom leaf does not suppress our breathing," Webster said. "It allows me to continue my daily exercise program, walk 5,000 to 6,000 steps every day and I tap dance."

Kratom is a tropical tree native to Southeast Asia. Its leaves, which contain two major psychoactive ingredients called mitragynine and 5-hydroxymitragynine (7-OH), can be brewed in man smoked or consumed as gel capsules.

But the federal government has taken note of new synthetic variations of 7-OH. Last month, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration announced a temporary ban on products containing certain levels and synthetic variations of kratom.

According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, there are no prescription or over-the-counter drug products containing kratom that are on the market legally in the U.S. Kratom is not lawfully marketed as a dietary supplement or food additive in conventional food.

In Illinois, some communities have already taken action. Winnetka, Plainfield and Bloomington are among the towns that have voted to ban the sale of kratom products and Rockford has prohibited the sale of synthetic kratom products. State lawmakers have proposed stricter regulations.

The impact of kratom products has been historically. "In the last four months, we had four overdoses, one fatal that the coroner did attribute to kratom images," Naperville Police Chief Jason Arno said. "We've had some theft cases where kratom is being stolen from these shops but again, this is more of a health concern and community safety concern for what we're seeing."

Naperville Fire Chief Mark Palisades said his team has not seen a major increase

in calls regarding kratom consumption or overdoses.

Councilman Jenny White acknowledged the retail name speakers and they found from natural leaf kratom but said he still supported a complete retail ban.

"Some frankly, our top responsibility as councilmen and women up here is public safety," he said. "We talk about fire and police all the time but when it comes to public health ... this fall is the line with that for me."

But for other council members, the distinction speakers drew between synthetic and non-synthetic kratom products merited more information before making a final decision.

"I think we've heard pretty consistently from the community that there's a difference between synthetic kratom and natural leaf kratom and those highly concentrated products that are often marketed to adolescents," Councilwoman Mary Gibson said.

Considering the benefits some people have found with natural leaf kratom and pain management, Gibson said she would like to see a second option that allows for the sale and regulation of natural leaf kratom products while banning synthetic products.

But how the city would regulate the difference between the two products could be a challenge.

Arno also said he would need more information before knowing how to properly regulate kratom products.

Mayor Scott Wolek urged the council to take action on the measure.

"I think having one dead person in our community whose autopsy report indicates kratom as a cause of death is pretty significant," he said.

The council will revisit the topic at a future meeting when more information can be provided by staff.

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the neighboring countries.

"We already know concentrations of microplastics in Great Lakes fish are some of the highest in the world," Rockman said during an interview with the Chicago Tribune while she and two grad students gathered samples from Lake 378 last fall.

"These tiny particles also are in the water we drink, she said. "Understanding the fate and transport of microplastics at ELA studies can to improve monitoring in bigger lakes, and hopefully influence policy."

Rockman is among a group of scientists who decided during the early 2000s to focus on plastic pollution in freshwater, rather than in subwater oceans where startling images of floating garbage patches drove, and continue to draw, worldwide attention.

Microplastics are in every corner of the Great Lakes, from Canada's "Chemical Valley," a strip of fossil fuel plants off Lake Thorne north of Detroit, to the pristine Apostle Islands in Lake Superior. The most densely populated Great Lakes, like Michigan and Lake Erie, contain the highest levels of microplastics detected to date.

The Tribune is documenting the scourge as part of "Great Worm in the Great Lakes" as originally set out, defining into mostly unseen risks to the health and environment of Americans and Canadians who depend on the world's largest source of fresh surface water.

"WILD WILD WEST"

At least 22 million pounds of plastic garbage dropped the Great Lakes every year, according to our estimate.

Microplastics, such as larger than a grain of rice, are formed as throw-aware, such as water-bottle, packaging and fast food storage for bread, bread, doers. Other sources include fibers shed when washing synthetic clothing, worn low particles in stored materials, and gold in industrial plastic pellets known as needles.

How much comes from each source depends on a variety of factors, home and out.

For instance, studies have found a single load of laundry can wash 700,000 tonable of microplastics known as microfibers into sewers.

Conventional eye-part treatment is capable of filtering up to 99% of microfibers and other microplastics flushed from home and business, often made hard, found. Yet billions of particles and strands are small enough to pass through the treatment process and live unimpealed into lakes and rivers.

Consider of each of the 40 million people in the Great Lakes watershed did their laundry once every two years. This would increase at least 13 trillion microfibers and up to the lakes every year.

"We get hit multiple times," said Anilani Donahue, director of regional environmental affairs at the Chicago-based Alliance for the Great Lakes. "Plants chemically are manufactured here, objects made from those chemicals—area from here and we get the pollution in the end of their useful life."

Petroleum-based plastics never completely go away. They just keep getting smaller, and potentially less harmful to humans, fish and wildlife.

Even the most remote areas of the Great Lakes aren't spaced.

At the northeastern tip of Minnesota, both Moore's watches over land, water, fish and will appear not the redige: near Grand Port and near Lake Superior Chippaws.

As Moore piloted a research boat last month, the largest Great Lake was calm and parades flat, in winter so clear the bottom could be seen at multiple lengths. Not many signs of humanity interrupted the rocks down line – just a few callous and the wooden tailings of a path leading to a wizened, cold-toss covered by the tribe.

Moore, like the two natural resources director, said he spends a good deal of the time to make a learning move, invisible to the naked man including forever chemicals and residue from pharmaceutical drugs.

Microplastics are a more

The fish crew collects samples to be measured for research at the Experimental Lakes Area on Oct. 1, 2025. BRIAN CASSELLA/CINCIAGO TRIBUNE PHOTOS

Francis Thurman, left, and Jesse Wilson collect samples of microplastics along the prowline of Lake 378 on Oct. 2, 2025, at the Experimental Lakes Area, a research station in western Ontario.

With Moore, natural resources director for the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippaws, pilots a boat across the water on July 6 along the tribe's land at the northeast tip of Minnesota near the Canadian border.

recent addition to his worries, some of the highest concentrations in Lake Superior, have been detected offshore from the tribe's lay trees.

"They affect the entire food chain, starting with plankton and fish that think its food," Moore said. "For people who rely on subsistence fishing, that's a big deal."

When scientists at the National Park Service sampled every beach in their system a decade ago, they were surprised to find protected areas in and along Lake Superior had some of the highest levels of microplastics among continental US parks.

Any other list: the Apostle Islands National Laboratory in northwest Wisconsin.

Others that jumped out in the results included two Lake Michigan parks: Indiana Dunes National Park near Chicago and Sleeping Bear Dunes National Laboratory the northwestern lower peninsula of Michigan.

Like other studies, the Park Service's samples were snap-down taken in parpenteurs constantly changing lakes. A later look by researchers at the University of Minnesota-Duluth recorded smaller concentrations of microplastics in Lake Superior beach sand.

Elizabeth Minor, lead author of the more recent study, said the conflicting results reflected different

Cristina Rockman collects some other microplastic samples from a storage site on Oct. 2, 2025, at the Experimental Lakes Area.

For sun sets at the Experimental Lakes Area, a research station in western Ontario, on Sept. 30, 2025.

testing methods, neither of which have been perfected. It still is difficult for scientists to pinpoint the plastic in sand or water containing neoplastic particles that can appear

similar through cricerozoog or in machine-assisted stations, she said.

"In many ways it's the Wild West West out there," said Minor, a chemist who

noted her research team a leading concentration of microplastics swirling above the bottom of Lake Superior fluctuate as sources and water currents change.

Park Service officials refused to make anyone available for an interview that during a 2021 webinar, Donald Lott ascites, a Park Service biologist, suggested, urban areas are largely responsible for bit-to-blast pollution, even in a sparsely populated lake such as Superior.

At one point during her presentation, she narrated estimated graphics showing blobs of contaminated sediments using out of voluntary use Duluth and and taking along 90 miles of downtime toward the Apostle Islands.

"It's worth noting we've now detected microplastics in beach sand, also water, and fish," Lott ascites said at the time.

The Chicago Tribune is exploring the plastic waste costs with a focus on the microplastics in the background: source of fresh surface water, often constructed about time pollution, industry association often than internal sources of microplastics are borrowed from an intranest with Big Tobacco, according to a Tribune review of thousands of government, scientific and internal industry documents.

At the same point, the Tribune will publish a series of stories, supported by the Paltner Center's first-plead U.S. initiative that interests the public's plastic waste in the Great Lakes, research into health issues in sustainable solutions.

Headline series at chicagotribune.com/plastic

LARGELY UNREGULATED

Plants waste remains largely unregulated in the US and Canada, unlike multiple other pollutants communicating the Great Lakes.

In April, President Donald Trump's administrative statement of it would begin measuring microplastics in water with an eye toward enforceable limits – a priority for the Wake America Healthy Again movement.

Administrators officials, tutuaged in their promiscuous months later, one of several policy reversals benefiting the close-honny American chemical industry during Trump's second term.

Another option in designutting microplastics as "chemicals of neutral concern" to a Great Lakes treaty between the two countries, a listing that would trigger routine monitoring throughout the watershed, similar to measurements of poisons such as mercury, brominated flame retardants and forever chemicals, also known as PFAR.

Rockman, the University of Toronto researcher, co-authored a petition urging rigorous scrutiny of microplastics by the International Joint Commission, a State-Israel group that oversees the team.

"We know microplastics are everywhere," Rockman said. "It's time to think about how we manage them."

The commission's scientific advisors support the pretax, 6x in other institutions, including the Great Lakes Fishery Commission and groups representing the region's mayors and legislators.

Neither the Trump administration nor the government of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has taken a public position. The two governments declined to answer a detailed list of questions entailed by the Tribune.

"Discussions with the Canada Water Agency are ongoing and we expect to share our findings later this calendar year," a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency spokesman said in an email. "In the interim, EPA is exploring opportunities to partner with Great Lakes states to support domestic U.S. work on

plastic pollution."

COSTS AND HEALTH

Some states are taking action in the absence of nationwide policies from the federal government.

A new Illinois law requires pollution to report uplift of industrial plastic pellets and develop plans to limit concentrations of needles in storm runoff – effort for the Great Lakes region.

Needles are manufactured by petrochemical plants specifically for the purpose of making new products.

In Michigan, the only route entirely within the watershed officials are testing 200 tributaries for test materials.

Minnesota law nudges or squares to shift away from plastic packaging by requiring them to pay into a fund for managing the waste, a concept known as extended product responsibility.

"The public increasingly is telling us this is what they want," said Donahue, the Alliance for the Great Lakes lobbyist. "If we have to go directly to objective regulation out of specific goods, needles to line that will make it easier for bigger projects to move the marketplace."

Elsewhere, dozens of countries and non-governmental organizations are clamoring for a global treaty under negotiation at the United Nations.

For those behind the treaty, the answer is the issue that certain areas of plastic and shenly reducing production for others.

Supporters contend a finding and issues are harmful to muscle plastic waste spreading into every such and create on the planet – an amount that can be misfiled of the last century has enabled to move their children to use.

Based on such detailed hazards of just a few of the 10,000 chemicals added to plastics, an analysis by scientists who supplied the treaty found would be difficult to human health an estimated to cost $1.16 billion a year.

"When you are talking to policymakers facing competing priorities, you need to talk about costs, not just about health," said Phillip Landrigan, a pediatrician

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and epidemiologist who leads the Prograstim Global Public Health and the Common Good at Boston College.

DECADES OF TOXIC AIR

The staggering majority begin during the extraction of fossil fuels for oil refineries and chemical plants, including a cluster in and around Sarnia, Ontario, at the south-erring of Lake Haron.

Sarnia, an hour north-east of Detroit across the St. Clair River from Port Haron, Michigan, has some of the most polluted air in Canada, according to the World Health Organization.

In decline is dominated by towering smokestacks, hailing areas of metal tubes and bright flames creating from flame or petros chemical plants in the global plastics supply chain.

During the 1970s and '80s local industries flowed to the political muscle that special editions of Canadian DOMs featured an image of Polymer Corp., a government-funded chemical plant built in Sarnia during World War II to make synthetic tablets.

Polymer Corp., along with an Imperial Oil refinery (body part of the ExxonMobil subsidiary founded as flow or gas contract), launched a post-war boom in what became known as "Chemical Valley".

Local petrochemical complexes have opened and closed since then, corporate logos on signs outside the gates occasionally change. But Sarnia appears to be a Canadian version of "Cancer Alley," a concentration of American refineries and plastic manufacturers built on former Louisiana sugar plantations forcibly cultivated by endowed people along the Mississippi River.

People in both regions have breathed toxic air for decades. Occasionally some take legal action against pollsters.

An quality monitoring in recent years showed a Sarnia plant, last owned by London-based INEDIS Group Ltd., central high levels of cancer-causing benzene across the street from the

Men play softball on Aug. 4, on the Aamjivnaang First Nation reservation land in Sarnia, Ontario. The field is across from the now-shortened #8035 Stymbrium facility that was closed last year for emitting high levels of benzene. Other industrial facilities continue to run nearby along the St. Clair River waterfront across from the Michigan border. BRIAN CASSELLA/CIRCASIO TRIBUNE PHOTOS

Kathy Woodworth quotes her granddaughter, Brynby, on a swing, on Aug. 4 outsider the Aamjivnaang First Nation headquarters in Sarnia, Ontario, across from a now-shortened #8035 Stymbrium facility.

headquarters, community center and softball fields of the Aamjivnaang First Nation.

Members of the tribe, another band of indigenous Chippewa, sued INEDIS, other Sarnia-area companies and the Canadian government seeking protec-

tion. Tribal leaders moved a deep-sea center in response to spikes of air pollution recorded by a massive outside Aamjivnaang headquarters.

"Pollution has increased in my nation due to a lack of regulations that would protect our rights and health

from plastic pollution," said the elected Aamjivnaang chief, Amelle Hamilton, also known as Bad Canal Woman. "We need stricter regulations that eliminate chemicals and polymers of concern with deadlines for outcomes that are enforced."

Benzene, the hazardous

chemical flagged near the Aamjivnaang community center, is a key ingredient in the production of styrene, another plastics-related carcinogen used in products sometimes branded as Styrene foam.

Under pressure from the tribe and the Canadian government, INEDIS shuttered its Sarnia plant at the end of last year, part of what the company called economic decisions that included planned closures of similar facilities in Chantadsen, southwest of Chicago, southern Ohio and northwest France.

Other Aamjivnaang land in the Sarnia area is surrounded by plastics-related plants owned by multi-national corporations such as Shell and Dow Chemical. A cemetery for tribal members, dating back to the late 19th century, is enveloped by a massive Sancar refinery.

Tribal areas aren't the only part of Sarnia affected.

One of the city's Lake Haron, beaches is littered with the highest concentrations of needles found on Great Lakes shortfalls, according to research by

Patricia Corcoran, a geologist at the University of Western Ontario.

Though Sarnia's industrial corridor is downstream from Lake Haron, it is a drainage ditches in the area are connected to create that flow into the lake, Corcoran said in an interview. She noted needles are industrial plants normally unenacted to overtake people, and likely drifted to the Sarnia beach through wasteful transportation or production practices.

Further from there to the spikes of Sarnia, and the other Great Lakes, another group of scientists is spending the summer attempting to build upon Reckman's findings at the Experimental Lakes Area in Ontario.

Two weeks ago some of Melissa Dubaine's graduate students pulled water samples around the clock in the southern basin of Lake Michigan. They have been impending throughout the larger watershed aboard the Lake Guardian, an EPA research vessel.

Dubaine, a University of Michigan ecologist, said her goal is to assess concentrations of microplastics in deeper water and within sediment at the bottom of each Great Lake, rather than just on the surface.

"One of the challenges is there are thousands of different proprietary chemical formulations of plastic. In other words, features that are selling points for industry but make it difficult for the rest of us to know what is out there," Dubaine said in an interview. "We need to know more about plastics small enough to be consumed by the base of the Great Lakes band web, the base of our fisheries and a direct path to humans."

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Why many communities are scrambling to find road salt

By Diane Zalosky DAILY HERALD

Winter is still months away. But communities already are scrambling to start up road salt for the snowy season ahead.

That looks has been a challenge for municipalities that count on buying salt through the Illinois Department of Central Management Services, only one half out of the cold.

CMI runs statewide joint procurement program for bulk road salt.

Local governments sign up to participate and submit their message needs to CMI rather than running their own separate bidding processes.

CMI benefits: these requests together and puts the contract out to bid. bid vendors then bid to supply the salt, and municipalities buy at the winning bid price under that joint contract.

But that process has proven slippery for more than 200 communities that received no bids for the 2026-27 season, leaving them to choose a bidder to buy from the state and wait for emergency bids to find alternative sources.

In a recent letter to the communities, CMI didn't make any promises about a last minute rescue and warned prices might be higher if there is an emergency allocation.

CMI processes road salt for hundreds of locations, statewide every year to ensure communities have the most available safe water road safety. CMI spokesperson Cornelillo Johnson wrote in an article:

the end most locations across Illinois received needed bids to separate.

"However, large supplies that typically redemands unleashed by providing salt

Salt is aided inside the Mount Prospect Public Works salt dome in Mount Prospect on Aug. 15. JOE LEWMAN/DAILY HERALD

throughout the State chose not to participate, resulting in gaps for some locations," she said.

Johnson said efforts are underway to acquire salt for the "no-bid locations".

"Our priority remains ensuring that all communities have reliable access to road salt to maintain safe roadways throughout the winter season. CMI will keep inspected jurisdiction, updated as we continue to attempt to contract with capable, missional smokers," she said.

Meanwhile, communities like Mount Prospect have decided not to wait.

"Our team just started calling suppliers, just to see if they connected with a source that could meet our supply requirements," Mount Prospect Village Manager Michael Cassady said.

They found a source

in West Chicago-based Midwest Ash. The price, a cost not to exceed $50.2/50 for 1,000 tons of road salt, amounted to $32.5 per ton. Last year the village paid $69.15 per ton under the state bid.

Other communities that did not receive bids through CMI are Arlington Heights, Ralston and Bellefaciave.

Due to a cold winter last year, Arlington Heights has a full salt dome, and the village is not immediately concerned, and Cox Papismak, director of public works and engineering.

The total saltArlington Heights is participating in a joint municipal bid with Palatine and Elk Grove Village to procure additional salt for the season.

Palatine Public Works Director Matt Burr said the village also benefited from the mild winter and stock-

piled more than half the salt volume it expects to need during a typical winter.

Buffalo Groves, which also uses joint purchasing through Lake County, plans to purchase salt from other sources to cover it to end.

The village does not anticipate the regional shortage affecting village operations during the winter, said Matt Gillasque, Buffalo Groves's commission officer and engagement director.

Communities that did receive confirmation for salt from CMI include Barrington, which also received bids through Lake County.

"We are not experiencing anything regarding salt shortage to this point," said Fred Evans, Barrington's director of public works.

Belling Meadow's also received a bid through the CMI contract from Morton

fish.

Glen Cole, the assistant city manager and community development director for Belling Meadow's, said Morton proposed providing the full requested allotment of 1,200 tons.

"We have about 100 to 100 tons on hand. In a standard year, we use about 1,200 tons for 30 to 36 inches of snow, and that number has been trending down," he said. "We are anticipating it before you with 19 to 20 inches of snow requiring low - parking 100 tons."

Superville received 1,000 tons of water from the CMI bid and 4,000 tons through an emergency procurement with Midwest Ash.

"We are also part of the state's emergency procurement for another 5,000 tons of water, the city's director of communications, Linda LaCèche, said.

However, the cost is escalating.

"There is a large price increase for salt this year," she said. "Last year we paid around $70 per ton, and this year we will anticipate that we will pay $12.10 of a minimum salt over $440 for the salt of the state bid."

The Illinois Tollway anticipates it will have the salt supplier it needs for the upcoming winter season. The Tollway processes salt through CMI. It does to opting to pursue its own procurement.

Communities like Aurora are using a misinformed approach.

Jason Bower, the city's director of public works and city engineer, said Aurora plans to purchase salt from most efforts in the spring. It conducted a competition-scaled bid process, resulting in a contract awarded to CMI for $100,000.

Aurora also participated in the DuPage County joint bid to secure additional salt. Congress Mitewish was also the successful supplier through the government procurement.

The city did seek salt through CMI but received no bids through that process.

Base-cash the city director said the city salt shortages during the 2026-27 season.

Matt Fowler, executive director of the Northwest Music and Conference, said a new extension received five to 10 years ago. When the state failed to secure bids, municipalities had to seek emergency supplies or communication directly.

He said the hope is that it is being workplan, combined with pretreatment andรียin with cold winters, will use communities through.

"I don't think we're on the verge of a trend," Fowler said. "I would say it's more of a big."

Evanston police seek guidance on prosecuting ICE agents for Midway Blitz actions

By Claire Murphy PIONEER PRESS

For many Evanstonians, last Halloween will not be remembered for costumes and cards, but as "among the most traumatic days our community has experienced" according to Mayor Daniel Biss.

Now, Evanston is seeking help to prosecute those responsible.

On Oct. 31, federal agent store through Chicago's Northwest Side and neighboring suburbs to conduct immigration enforcement raids that were part of the nation-Midway Blitz, the Trump Administration's resusping federal immigration crackle-worse Chicago.

"After the massacre of multiple locations, (federal agents) caused a car crash near Oldham and Asbury (in Evanston), beat and pepper-

sprayed peaceful bystanders, painted guns at residents, and detained people for hours," Biss wrote in a citywide message to residents Aug. 17. He said the alleged action of agents "was surely a violation of the Department of Homeland Security to use of force policies."

"The city of Evanston seeks to hold these agents accountable, Biss wrote, but the question is who would do that, and how."

"This is a hard problem, because the Trump Administration makes all of us normal 'ways of going about this unworkable,'" Biss wrote.

It would never use its own Department of Justice to criminally prosecute federal agents, he wrote, which is why the "state-level criminal justice system is the last option to hold the agents accountable."

To that end, Biss announced in his Monday letter that Evanston police Chief Schedule Reward has sent a "formal request for guidance" to the Cook County state's attorney's office's law enforcement review unit, tasked with investigating law enforcement officers accused of criminal offenses to decide whether charges can likely be brought against them.

"We are requesting assistance from LERO to determine the most appropriate path forward," Biss wrote in his message.

Months of public backlash over the lack of legal action taken against immigration officers accused of acting violently towards civilians prompted Cook County State's Attorney Edward Neill Burke to circulate a policy in February for how charges can be brought

against federal agents.

"The document provides an analysis for the thorough legal scenario in which a state prosecutor may pursue charges against a federal agent to all legal proceedings, while on duty."

His mountaineer is as guide for officers investigating potential misconduct and for the prosecutors tasked in reviewing these cases.

"We are to deliver the law - including both ICE agents and prosecutors," O'Neill Burke said in a news release regarding the policy.

While the Evanston Police Department initially opened an investigation into the alleged illegal use of force by federal agents on Halloween, the FBI then opened its own investigation with the intent of using EPFO case materials. Biss continued.

"It is inconceivable that the FBI was acting in good

faith."

Biss relayed in his letter that the formal request was made to LERO in reference to an April 10 report from Gov. B. Pritzker's Illinois Accountability Commission, a group formed by investigator the conduct of federal agents and inter policy recommendations in relation to any harm they may have caused.

"The commission's final report "analyzed the Evanston events and described the actions of federal agents Timothy Donahue, Thomas Parsons, and Edward Maza as a formal attack, without apparent justification and alleged those agents used to answer the law," Biss wrote.

"The report concluded that 'there is reasonable cause to believe,' federal agents should be 'formally insensitive' and be possible violations of agency policy, state and federal criminal laws, and

individuals' constitutional rights," he said.

The Cook County state's attorney's office wrote in a statement that its law enforcement review unit is reviewing Evanston's materials to determine what support it can provide.

Last year, following the ICE Halloween road, ICE agents returned to Evanston on Dec. 12, where then-Runior Patrol (male "dreams" of misinformed) and a humid public dispute with Biss in a Home Street parking lot during a follow-up immigration enforcement operation.

The company residents remain watchful for a promotion of ICE and Senior Patrol agents to the Chicago area, federal officials have continued to push its protections for these agents, including liability insurance and givens that would deliver electric shocks.

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Lake Street Church to renovate, reopen homeless shelter

By Cheri Murphy PIONEER PRESS

For Danita, the ground-breaking ceremony at Lake Street Church in Evanston embodied much more than a renovation and reopening project.

It marked a return to the Hilda's Place shelter for people experiencing homelessness that, 47 years ago, gave her somewhere to turn where she needed it most.

"Our family wasn't looking for someone to do everything for us. We just needed a little help bridging that final gap between working hard and being able to get into our home," said Danita, authors also resident who declined to publicly share her last name for safety reasons.

"Evanston nonprofit! Connections for the Homeless provided the trend assurance that helped us get into our apartment, while Interfaith Action of Evanston helped us with some of the practical things that made it possible for us to keep moving forward."

For more than 40 years, Hilda's Place, one of Illinois's longest-running emergency shelters, has provided overnight housing in the basement of Lake Street Church.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, though, Connections for the Homeless has run Hilda's Place safety as a daytime service center.

Now, with more than $6.5 million in grant funding, Hilda's will undergo expansive renovation, once again supplying overnight shelter services by spring 2027.

"Homelessness is not the result of personal failure," said Betty Bugg, CEO of Connections for the Homeless, before a cleaning crowd of nearly 100 community members, civic advocates, politicians and congregants at the ground-breaking.

"It is the profitable result of systems that do not work for everyone."

The restoration project will add 30 shelter beds for all genders, plus showers, laundry and toilet facilities.

Connections' day center,

U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky hugs Danita, a former Hilda's Place shelter participant, at a ground-breaking ceremony to restore the basement of Lake Street Church to its former status as an overnight shelter, on Aug. 12. CLARK MURPHY/PIONEER PRESS PHOTOS

which currently operates in the zone to be renovated basement, will move to the first and second floors of Lake Street Church during the construction period.

According to Bugg, the nonprofit plans to rebrand itself next year as Housing Connections to symbolize the organization's commitment to the Evanston community.

Project funding stems from a $2 million federal grant secured in 2023 by 9th District U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky, along with support from the city of Evanston, an anonymous local philanthropist and various private donors, according to officials.

Several speakers at the Aug. 12 event, including Schakowsky, Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss, 13th District Cook County Commissioner Josue Morris and the Rev. Michael Woolf, who has served as senior minister of Lake Street Church since 2019, achieved a significant commitment effort to increase available housing in conjunction with a broader movement of faith-based groups.

The YIGBY movement represents a national undertaking by religious leaders, housing advocates and lawmakers looking to organize vacant church land into affordable housing for low-income residents. YIGBY

stands for "You in God's Backyard," and it's a plodful take on NIMBY, the "Not in My Backyard" sentiment sometimes used to characterize residents who resist change or new construction in their neighborhoods.

Key to pricing vacant church land is a cumbersome process, however, given the required levels of zoning and other approvals required by municipal governments.

YIGBY proponents aim to advance legislation that allows churches to fast track municipal approval.

"Sometimes we must do this important work without the support that we would like," Woolf said in his address to the crowd.

"Too often, really nice things like historical designations, landmark status, zoning, make it impossible for these same faith-based institutions to follow their call from God, and for us that is really personal," Woolf continued.

"We are not going to back away from this fight. More has to be done at the local, state and federal levels to make these partnerships possible."

Connections for the Homeless Board Chair Dan Cox said that while the YIGBY term may be only 7 years old, Lake Street Church

has been practicing in principles for 42 years.

"Homelessness is not someone else's problem, it's our community's problem, and the solution is when

Lake Street Church in Evanston, pictured Aug. 12. For more than 40 years, Hilda's Place has operated as an overnight shelter in the basement of the church.

communities decide that the people who are struggling belong here too," Cox added.

According to Christina Hales, chief homelessness officer for the Illinois Office to Prevent and End Homelessness, a YIGBY adjacent hill to expand housing access on the state level was introduced during the last legisla-

tive session in Springfield, but ended in the Illinois General Assembly.

Officials began being back reforms aimed at reducing regulatory hurdles, accelerating redevelopment and expanding financial tools for affordable housing projects at the legislature session this November.

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Chicago's youngest athletes kick off major triathlon weekend

By Lila Hempel-Edgers CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Thousands of athletes from around the world descended on Chicago this weekend, ready to test months of training at the country's largest triathlon.

But as the first wave of competitors plunged into the crisp waters of Lake Michigan, some admitted they hadn't gotten there on determination alone.

"I'm back because I want to continue getting better," said Lila Peebo, a rising fifth-grader from the West Loop, 10th, and also because my mom and dad made me."

The 10-year-old woman of hundreds of young athletes who kicked off Superin's Chicago Saturday morning on a course designed for younger competitors. After a shallow water swim at Foster Beach, children hide and run along lakefront roads.

Kids ages 7 to 10 took off at 7 a.m., followed an hour later by those ages 11 to 14. The younger competitors swam 100 meters, then hiked just over 2 miles and run a little over half a mile. The older kids cover twice that distance.

Colin Hole said the hard-snry art comes after the swim, when the cool morning air

hits his wet skin, making it difficult to swim up. Then there's the possibility of cramping during the run and, of course, the fear of falling behind.

"I like to not think about beating everyone else, but about beating myself," said Hole, 9, of Winnetka. "My goal is just to get at least a minute faster."

His friend, Shaw Weinberg had her own concerns ahead of Saturday's race. After skipping the competition last year, the 9-year-old worried she might be out of practice. But even after taking a few breaks during the run, Weinberg crossed the finish line ahead of more than half the kids in her age group. She called the race "amazing" and said she'll definitely be back next year.

"Sometimes, I feel like I'm never going to make it," said Weinberg, also from Winnetka. "So when I cross the finish line, I feel really proud."

Superin's Chicago generated millions of dollars for the city last year, and its corporate fundraising competition brought the Ann & Robert H. Lane Children's Hospital more than $84,000 for pediatric cancer and blood dazed cancer. With participation growing

each year, organisms say the event formerly known as the Chicago Triathlon is on track to become the largest triathlon in the world.

The race has certainly hooked Matthew Dundet, who was last nervous heading into this year's competition that he was last year. The course is familiar now, he said and he likes the satisfaction of watching his time improve.

"It feels very exciting," said Dundet, 8, then hires his smile. "You just feel really proud of yourself."

Above: Kids Triathlon junior racers run toward the water, marking the start of Chicago's Triathlon weekend at Foster Beach on Saturday. Kids ages 7 to 10 swam 100 meters, then hiked just over 2 miles and run a little over a half a mile. Kids ages 11 to 14 covered twice that distance.

Left: Luke Kirnefelter, 10, cruises the first time of The Kids Triathlon on Saturday.

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Stripped cop from notorious downtown tactical team charged with domestic battery

By Caroline Kubanicky CHICAGO TRIBUNE

A Chicago cop who currently has the most misconduct ofignies in the entire police department was arrested Friday for domestic violence, according to police sources and court records.

Joseph Vecchio was stripped of his police powers late last year amid failure from his time as a member of exactly known who wrote for stops and street searches led to dozens of miscon-

duct complaints and a bevy of civil rights lawsuits. He's now accused of attacking a woman he was romantically involved with in his for Northwest Side home.

Police sources said Vecchio, 10, was taken into custody early Friday afternoon and charged with domestic battery. According to court records, Vecchio allegedly punched a woman he was dating and right times in the face and body. The alleged battery took place Tuesday, court records show,

and the woman filed a petition for an order of protection Wednesday. Cook County Circuit Judge Megan Goldish granted the order the same day and issued a warrant for Vecchio's arrest.

Court records also state he has been involved in prior instances of domestic violence and take note of his status as a police officer, "stripped for unredund incidents."

Vecchio didn't immediately respond to calls and messages seeking comment.

A lawyer representing him on one of the civil rights cases where he is listed as a defendant didn't immediately return calls.

He was set to appear before Judge Michael Hogan at Cook County Domestic Violence Court Sept. 9, according to Cook County court records.

Just before Vecchio was taken into custody, The Chicago Sun-Times reported that he now faces firing Federal court records show he is a defendant in more than

a dozen federal civil rights lawsuits connected with Team 1861, a group of officers from the Near North (16th) District who ranked opposite their 60 complaints regarding their alleged unprofessional conduct, traffic stops, street stops and searches. According to an October 2024 memo from COHN Chief Administrator LaBonna White to them Superintendent Larry Snelling, Vecchio personally had 76 complaints filed against him.

Per data from the city's

Office of Inspector General, Vecchio still has the most misconduct complaints of any single officer in the department. The officer with the second-highest number of complaints — also a Team 1864 member — was stripped of his police powers in February in the middle of a deposition for one of the lawsuits that resulted from the team's activities.

Tribune reporter Sam Charles co-writated to this report.

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GILBERTO CÁRDENAS 1947-2026

Notre Dame academic helped found the field of Latino studies

By Bob Goldschmidt FOR THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE

For decades, Gilberto Cárdenas worked at the intersection of Latino culture, scholarship and community management, and he sought to elevate the profiles of Latino artists through a variety of sources, including creating a national gathering devoted to educating and advancing U.S. Latino visual art.

Later in his career, Cárdenas taught Latino studies at the University of Notre Dame, which was the founding director of the university's Institute for Latino Studies. He was also assistant provost at Notre Dame, and he later was assistant director of Notre Dame's Center for Arts and Culture.

Cárdenas was also a major art collector. He and his wife donated thousands of works to various museums, including about 2,000 works to Chicago's National Museum of Mexican Art, on whose board he served. He also donated artworks to the State Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame, as well as to museums in Texas and Washington, DC.

"He was instrumental in assessing an analysis where Latino and Chicano art are part of the canon of American art," said retired Smithsonian Latino Center director Richard L. May, a longtime friend and colleague. "That wasn't really the case before."

Cárdenas, 79, died of complications from cancer on July 26 of his home in Austin, Texas. He was a 80-year-old, but he is a 80-year-old, and a 80-year-old, and a 80-year-old, and a 80-year-old, and a 80-year-old, and a 80-year-old, and a 80-year-old, and a 80-year-old, and a 80-year-old, and a 80-year-old, and a 80-year-old, and a 80-year-old, and a 80-year-old, and a 80-year-old, and a 80-year-old

Born in San Gabriel, California, in 1947, Cárdenas was the son of a single mother who worked as a secretary. Growing up over Los Angeles, Cárdenas was by his own reckoning, a gang member as a town. After graduating from San Luis Angeles College in 1967 he earned a bachelor's degree from California State University in 1969. During college, Cárdenas took a五年 course in both in Mexican American student organizations, as well as in documenting the Chicano movement of Mexican America in identity through photographs.

Cárdenas raised a master's degree in art, a study from the University of Notre Dame, and in 1973 a doctoral degree from Notre Dame. While at Notre Dame, Cárdenas assisted Notre Dame professor and Latino studies pianist Julian Samara on "Los Mojados: The Writings Story," a national 1971 academic book published by the University of Notre Dame Press that explored immigration to the U.S. by undocumented Mexicans and directed the various dynamics at play in migrant workers' lives.

After graduate school, Cárdenas began teaching sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned honors and taught for more than two decades. As a scholar and educator, Cárdenas built a Mexican American studies program at the U. of Texas and he also received his and wrote on topics such as immigration, labor, race, ethnicity and border communities.

"We're trying to use the whole educational process to improve society," Cárdenas told the Indianapolis Star in 2001. "I want to institute and train a new generation of scholars — to make them more aware of (Latinos)"

Though a sociologist by training and profession, Cárdenas found himself

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more deeply drawn and connected to the work of artists. During his years in the Austin, he became an enthusiastic collector, advocate and champion of Latino visual. In 1986, he founded Galería Sin Promesas in Austin, a gallery and gathering place for artists, scholars, activists, collectors and those in the community Cárdenas — who often quipped that the often cash-strapped facility should have been named "Galería Sin Dones" — prised around the nurturing artists whose work had been overlooked by mainstream institutions.

Starting in 1998, Cárdenas spent 10 years in a scientific director of the Inter-University Program for Latino Research, a New York-based collaborative of 21 university-based Latino research centers, departments and programs across the country that sought to define the national research agenda for Latino studies. Cárdenas' specific interest in art held in 2003 contained a national gathering of U.S. Latino visual art, called "Latino Art Now".

In 1993, Cárdenas left the University of Texas to parlay a first name, Notre Dame, as a professor, assistant provost and as the founding director of its Institute for Latino Studies. The university asked Cárdenas to open the institute in 1999 as a way to demonstrate a stepped-up commitment to the (predominantly Catholic) Latino community.

Cárdenas also served on the Smithsonian Institution's task force on Latino issues, which led to increased Latino representation throughout the Smithsonian. He also spearheaded the creation of a national Latino museum at studies program, and in 1994 he was the founding executive director of the nationally distributed "Latino USA" radio program that shared Latino voices and stories on National Public Radio.

Throughout his working life, Cárdenas invested with financially, allowing him to assemble a massive personal collection of nearly 20,000 pieces of art from Latino artists. After retiring from Notre Dame in 2010, he focused on donating thousands of pieces from his art collection to various museums.

In 2015, Cárdenas and his wife shared more than 2000 works of art from their collection to the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas. Cárdenas previously had gifted printers the Blanton's 2020 that had been produced at a landmark printmaking workshop in Los Angeles. That earlier gift dovetailed with his past work with printmaking, including establishing a consortium of Latino printmaking workshops across the U.S. in 2000 that came to be known as Canary-Grober National Museum of Mexican Art, and an instrument that Cárdenas "fathered deeply in the power of art to preserve historic image identity and maple change."

"I'll moved with ease among artists, entrepreneurs, scholars and politicians, always making the case that the arts destroyed water supply recognition and investment," Moores said. "He possessed a new ability to contact people and share bringing enthusiasm and generosity to every endeavor. Many of us will miss G-1 - his gregarious laugh, his playful slips and little dances whenever he was excited about a new idea, a remarkable acquisition or simply a wonderful need shared with friends. These moments reflected the joy with which he is relieved life and the people around him."

Cárdenas also donated artwork to the State Museum of Art at Notre Dame and to the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington. "He was an extraordinarily generous man," Diaz said. "He had the ability with his collection to make a difference."

Cárdenas rediscovered his religious faith in the mid-1990s, and he long had viewed his work as part of his faith and the quest for freedom, opportunity and racial equality.

"For me, the idea of the American dream is the dream for equality," he told the Indianapolis Star in 2001. "It's important for us to have values and pursue them in ourselves. I want to see us fulfill the values of our society."

A first marriage ended in divorce, Cárdenas is survived by his wife, Dolores Carrillo Garcia, two sons, Susan and Alexander, a stepdaughter, Jessica Duarte, two steps sons, Jason and Jon Paul, nine grandchildren, and two brothers, Frank and Robert.

A celebration of life service is being planned.

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Weather history

Hurricane Andrew cannot ashore south of Miami, Fla., on Aug. 23, 1928. Andrew revealed havoc from south of the California State northern tip of Key Largo. A wind gust of 164 mph was recorded at the National Hurricane Center in Coral Gables.

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Calumet	9:55:55	7:57:50
Chestnut	8:58:00	8:58:00
Elkhart	8:60:00	7:58:00
Fresno	7:59:00	7:59:00
Zelma	8:59:00	8:59:00
Rockford	8:60:00	7:59:00
Springfield	8:60:00	7:59:00
Seattle	7:58:00	7:57:50
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Birmingham	7:59:00	7:57:50
Evansville	8:59:00	8:59:00
Fort Wayne	7:59:00	7:59:00
Indianapolis	7:59:00	7:59:00
South Bend	7:59:00	7:59:00
Portland	7:59:00	7:59:00
Waco	7:59:00	7:59:00
Wichita	7:59:00	7:59:00
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Omaha	8:59:00	7:59:00
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Opinion

PAGE 1 | SECTION 8 | SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 2026 | CHICAGO TRIBUNE.COM

Chicago Tribune

Second June 10, 2027

Pat Ridder, Publisher Mitch Pugh, Executive Editor

Chris Jones, Editorial Page Editor Stacy M. Chin, Managing Editor

DIRECTORS OF CONTENT Amanda Kaschuba, Sports and Audience Todd Pennyopoulos, Trustee

EDITORIALS

Enough with 'Sexy Alexi,' Quigley at Burger King and Pappas' tongue

As the mayoral campaign kicked off, we quickly walked for a command debate among problems and even referred by the desperate fiscal state of our beloved city.

What do we see so far? Too much talk of 'Sexy Alexi,' casting mayoral from runner Alexi Giannoukas as a kind of Ah-suld of the Prains, set to poppy Chicago up. Apparently that refills with a whopping, unless approved, let's increase in the Chicago minimum wage by 2022, which does not exactly signal a change to a more business-friendly environment for the city, given that appropriate business would be able to avoid that costly increase merely by relocating to a suburb. Or Indians, the craft, by a person of Illinois over-spouses.

Then there was Mike Quigley cutting a gaseous figure on social media, where it is, the venerable Democrat, an unguarantee framed his opponent as a competitor in a 'wet T-shirt contest' (b), appeared to himself jump fully slotted into Lake Michigan and (c), ordered a breakfast whopper from Burger King and declared, when asked, that he did not need a crown because the symbol is, if that is the word, made him feel 'divine.' Perhaps the congressman needs a reminder as to which far-from-the-fast-fired giant is he adjourned in Chicago.

Then: No kings. If that were not enough, and it is more than enough, we also have been around in the makesh gaffs that at Pappas'ers striking our her tongue in close proximity to someone else's face in a widely shared and creepy image on social media, and then reaching our strikingly salty texts to a gowned Richard Berkin, a Willie Wilson loyalist, who objected to her use of the word 'hey,' among many other text as—those words in a

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private cast from the Cook County treasurer's journalism fingers. But Berkin subsequently chose to make public.

Pappas did not back down, either. No title type. But the salary question here is whether she is the mayoral type.

Sure, we're well aware that Giannoukas, a former public social athlete, can't help it if others choose about his do-try way of a job. And we'd be all for a campaign to make Chicago a healthier place. There is nothing wrong with a well-toned mayor setting the example. Giannoukas should flex with pride if he is speaking the ideas we want to hear.

Yes, of course, we know this

famously is the silly season, a time when people are clinging on to the end of summer and not yet fully paying attention to the political race coming the fall.

But taken together, this was quite the week of pondering candids the critics and not exactly the precursor to what should be a serious campaign to convince veteranist the best candidate to vote on the research-instrumental agent. That would be a pro-growth someone who is not afraid to vote is spending, would expect at almost with City Council, fight back against vested interests and be willing to deliver the bad news about what must be done to right the city's leaning fiscal ship.

Even fresh fresh fallings, do-are a chugger pencheck. But we suspect that some of the do-try-produced hackers of Giannoukas, the candidate with the biggest war chest (no pun jernacle), were not necessarily looking for the offs the necessary of state to repudiate the vehicle to occupy a smaller lake to thinner the state's power, because that lane has been leading us right off a head cliff. As Giannoukas well knows, as do Quigley, Pappas and Illinois Co-operative, Francis A. Mendoza, about the only leading candidate who so far has hung on to feel dignity this August.

Two more weeks, folks. Then it's time to get very serious.

An ethics watchdog, such as our state's legislative inspector general, should know when to say 'no comment'

It's fair to assume most Illinois ass didn't know who the state's legislative inspector general was before the last few weeks. A lot more of them do now, and not for the right reasons.

Michael McCuskey, a 74-year-old former judge, seems to be struggling with basic aspects of his current role. Such as, talking about only what to do by public domain.

McCuskey recently hit the radio screen for a lengthy discussion of Henry Benton, the diagnosed former state representative of McCuskey's office investigation. And McCuskey, the primary watchdog over Springfield lawmaker's ethics, sure can his insight.

'You always give me a chance to be transparent and put my foot in my mouth,' McCuskey said at the end of 'the day's interview with WHM.' 'PM Springfield' 'has Petrol's Plingerer. Yes,' we'll see what the other people say in the, in the journalism world.'

Yes, we will. Here goes. Benton resigned amid a sexual harassment investigation of his behavior during his tenure in Springfield. A recent report from McCuskey's office included all-patient interviews where he's identified a 'patient and practice of inappropriate sexual conduct' by Benton.

We understand why an LIG might discuss a major report after its release, especially when some attempts to deal with the druggist sit-down was unusual and left us with more questions.

The most significant public dispute over the report comes from the state's office that accused Benton of making crude, inappropriate comments and showing her level of abuse on his phone of women with whom she was charged. The most social media relationship during an interview at a River World Inc. which the Tribune reported, he is letter, she questioned why McCuskey demissed her account as

Michael P. McCuskey, then a member of the Reval State University Board of Trustees, speaks April 22, 2024, in Internet. ZIKHAVIN KEDIAV/TREUNE

unfounded, She also said the report attributed to Benton a remark she says by never made and misstated when she told another legislator about the encounter and what that lawmaker said.

Another revelation she offered, and McCuskey confirmed in the interview, made an air up enough.

'It's likely that these errors stem from the fact that LIG McCuskey did not record our one-on-one interview or take contemporaneous notes,' she wrote.

Asked why he did not take notes, McCuskey said he prefers to maintain eye contact.

'I like to look the victim in the eye, to get the feeling of anger to get the feeling of being distraught. And sometimes they cry and I want to be sympathetic. I don't want my head down writing, which is one or her part taking notes, he doesn't really care about what I'm saying.'

Fair enough. We understand McCuskey's desire to make victims comfortable, and we don't dispute the value of maintaining eye contact rather than hearing his hand in a notebook. But he has an overriding obligation to get the facts right. There is no one reason one can't listen empathetically to a victim while creating a reliable record of what that person says.

Plingerer, parent of our But McCuskey's years on the bench

came with a rather important difference: 'You also had a court reporter doing a transcript for you, though.'

'This is true,' McCuskey replied.

When pressed on, concerns over his interviewing tactics, he said, 'Don't pick the fly (let out of the window). The minor details are not important.'

Really? Aren't details everything in this sort of investigation?

'I have never tried cases in the press,' McCuskey said in a July 19 statement responding to alleged inaccuracies. 'No, we'll ever do so. My judgment has never been attacked by an individual, leading any credibility being the Legislative Inspector General in a much different experience that brings a Federal or State Judge. I have nothing more to add.'

Just weeks after making them comments, however, McCuskey was recording a radio interview discussing the investigation.

Revealed the dispute over interview tactics, there's more time. McCuskey makes some surprising disclosures, even though Plingerer opened the commentator trying to give McCuskey cover for not being able to answer certain questions.

Plingerer asked McCuskey whether there's an investigation into House Speaker Emanuel 'Chew' Welch. Initially, the

LIG responded that he could not answer that question, but he goes on to say 'nobody's like it's complaint,' immediately adding that he shouldn't have told Plingerer that.

Later, when Plingerer said a reporter 'hated' that a complaint had been filed with McCuskey's office against state Rep. Enoch Antman, D-Urbana, who has pleaded not guilty to 10 federal federal charges, including the Fed. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S.

'No, no complaint has been filed?' Plingerer's clarified.

'I take it back. I can't tell you. Talk to 'Stop' McCuskey.' 'He's not looking for the House Rep. did not leader.'

What? Surely 'no comment' would've sufficed.

But it's poor sir! 'I shouldn't even be telling that, but what the half? They can't take my job away, because it's not a disney. They're stuck with me for two more years.'

We reached out to McCuskey Friday with questions about the interview and his investigation practices. He responded after our no-flight, expressing that he was dealing with a doubt in the family and did not show time to answer our questions.

We had ourselves scratching our hands over this whole episode McCuskey didn't have to do this interview. Yes, transparency from a government watchdog generally is something we applaud, but the LIG occupies an unusual position. People need to willing to tell his office, especially things with confidence that their information will be handled with extra ordinary care.

'That's why an inspector general has been not only when the public deserves answers, but when his obligation to the people who come through his door requires him simply to say. No comment.

Quotes of the week

'If you'd like, I can pull the pockets out of my trousers to show you that the state does not have the dollars that are just laying around. And so the question is: Where can we find those dollars?'

GOV. JE PHITZ BAR RESPONSES TO SEMANOS FOR MORE MONEY FOR CHICAGO PUBLIX SCHOOLS

'It brings to mind what happened when we reported on House Speaker Mike Madgues's political machine. He subpoenaed members of our team after we released a documentary exposing his abuse of power. It was a bullying tactic meant to divert attention. The judge rejected his effort.'

ILLINOIS DEAN FENTYUTS IN RESPONSE TO A CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION LAWSUIT

'Don't toy with Illinois.'

ILLINOIS ATTORNEY GENERAL KIMANE RAEAL

'These unions could be disagreeing on who should lead the school board because they're also disagreeing on who the next mayor of the city of Chicago should be and they feel the two positions should be aligned.'

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PROFESSOR ROBERT BRUNNON MALL ETU AND DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR LOCAL OF BAICHAS TIMBRETHS CHICAGO SCHOOL BOARD PRESIDENT CANDIDATES

'We have proved that everyday people are more powerful than corporations and billionaires. We went up against the political establishment, against millions of dollars of outside spending — we were outspent 16 to 1, and we won. This man was for the little guys and girls.'

FLORIDA STATE LAWMAKER AND DEMOCRATIC EXCELLENT ANIDE NATION IN VICTORY REMARKS AT THE DAY, DRUG THE DEMOCRATIC SENATE NARRATION IN FLORIDA

'I disagree with my mom, cousins, aunties and friends. Why do we treat lack of total alignment as a bad thing?'

STATE REP. MARCUS EVANS JR. INDEPENDENT, NARY UNITY

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OPINION

Chicago architects go back to bricks

For all the attention that glass and steel garners, it's brick that captures the soul of Chicago's architecture. Here's the earth-graines of 1871, brick has been theved-faults-ground of a fence throughout the city's neighborhood. Worker's cottages, hangar-bars, there-and-our-fists, and courtyard apartments have been largely constructed of brick. Even Ludwig Marx was der Rohe — our high goal of modern glass and steel — and his first high-rise in 1916, the Promenary's apartments in Hock Park, at brick.

Brick is one of the most fundamental materials in architecture. Each piece is a little bit of the earth itself, molded to a shape that fits easily in the hand, baked to achieve permanence and经济效益, one step another, to form a wall that can enclose, shelter and delight us. Brick's distinctive size helps ground a building — regardless of scale — in the human hand that was designed to be construction.

And brick is an essential element in many times: Chicago buildings including The Rockery, the Monaducas and the Margarite building, Frank Lloyd Wright and the Mansion House — an elongated version that mimics the architect's hemiested structures in each unit, with Hock Park's Robins House as a particularly good example.

But brick is no guarantee of design quality. The city is divided with dull and uninteresting structures clut in the material. But they fulfill the designed and detailed, brick can evoke the full light of architecture and develop a building's status.

The following brick-faced projects of some have been recently approved or financed in our initial system: the first, the processing design that have the potential to become a very good daughter — and might point to a broader interest in creating appealing architecture that can be built.

A new unit brick building at 1216 W. Kinsco St. at the northern edge of the housing Fulson Market District was designed by Dick Jernigan, who, in his last few stories old, it's a three-knuck in scale for this rapidly demolishing neighborhood. The half-browns Kinsco and the railroad break, it's a very straightforward building whose space is obligated to a series of small units, but the best buildings shown to date are rather dull and can also tell, this could become a forgettable and unimpaired apartment block, except Dick Jernigan's a very detailed weekend architect who often works with wealthy clients on commercial and non-

A new brick apartment building at 1216 W. Kinsco St. at the northern edge. © John J. Finkley, JOSEPH T. MCCARTHY/GRANDY THERESA WINTER

A man walks a dog past a new brick apartment building at 2237 W. Roscoe St. in Roscoe Village on Friday.

dered projects. The color of the glazed brick and mortar, the quality of the windows, and the promised bronze ceilings and details will become his the building's architectural success.

A new four-story tall, 10-unit apartment block at 1724 N. Chboum Ave. was proposed later last year for a site built a block north of the North, Chboum Red Line station on the west side of the street. Featuring large windows that recall the Chboum Corridor's industrial part, the Elands of Saunders design displays a modern minimalist worklife. It is clear on the land justly, it's break the overall mass into three separate volumes along the streets up while differently colored brick gives each piece its own identity.

This four-story tall brick building that's nearing completion at 1837 W. Roscoe St. in

Roscoe Village is quite appealing. Designed by En Manse Architecture and Design with a car architects, the design displays a sense of weight that's appropriate for brick construction. Adrift was a favorite the planched windows together. The initial rendering showed deep horizontal banding around the building's corner that were unfortunately omitted, but the building holds up under scrutiny. According to the project's website, the six condominium apartments have already been sold.

Fully approved and permitted, Roscoe building at 2724 N. Lehmann Court in Lincoln Park promises a spare minimalist essay in brick. It's designed by Studio Dwell, which has been creating large contemporary residential designs for more than two decades. The accomplished small firm was rather inapplicable the

one Chicago firm featured in a new book by former Architectural Record-Editors that documents design-carry designers between the courts.

In 2724 N. Lehmann, we've learn about, it's more that unsustaining. How flat, but this is an object known as how it is clearly an already-dense Lincoln Park single boyhood without including the prevailing residential scale. The new structure is not much taller (the versus three stories) than its neighbors while creating 10-units to place of just three. The rendering is an a bit vague, but Studio Dwell's track record built into that this is a building worth watching.

Just recently proposed, the four-story tall block at 2758 N. Mount St. in Logan Square was designed by Chicago Common Studio and Gusset & Associates. It's solid and almost chased at its sense of natural overall composition. The building seems even more solid than the other projects here due to its massive masonry pier that holds the corner of Mount and Denver Avenue. That's in part due to the building's unusual interior configuration, with four two-story tall townhouses along Mount. Three of these units are within the world five-story tall volume, with another occupying Grove "Hustle" at the south end of the building. There's some real space along Denver, with 36 apartments filling the rest of the structure.

The Department of Planning and Development just recently selected a very promising

two building transit-oriented development at 1518 and 1607 W. Arlette, in West Englewood design. The building is a history of the LAC and Regional Song. These two smart triangular structures will be located along 61st of each end of the 61st, National Green Line station. They're a natural mall, with 18 units each and some ground floor wind spaces, but their gracefully curved brick and glass corners spent a lot of time in the past. The building seems even more solid than the other projects here due to its massive masonry pier that holds the corner of Mount and Denver Avenue. That's in part due to the building's unusual interior configuration, with four two-story tall townhouses along Mount. Three of these units are within the world five-story tall volume, with another occupying Grove "Hustle" at the south end of the building. There's some real space along Denver, with 36 apartments filling the rest of the structure.

While such three projects is promising, there's still a deep design-conservation to each of them. The story building is modern by — our should be — extraordinary. But Chicago is a sort of great achiever, John Wolfhorn Root, Daniel Hamilton, Wright, Moss, Harry Wiese, Nelson John, Cain Ross Barnes, Jeanne Gang, John Brown and many others.

While none of these new projects reaches those heights, they promise good architecture which isn't always easy to find these days.

Edward Keegan writes, brush into and reaches an architectural district. Keegan's overall architecture, column is supported by a grant from former Tribune critic Mike Barrett, an administered by the text for profit fascination Reading Partners. The Tribune maintains editorial control over assignments and content.

Chicago can't afford to lose more children to suburbs. Make changes to housing rules

Special to The Tribune

Arche makes of a 20-month-old, 1-farm think about where my wife and 1-will raise our family. We want to remain in Chicago, but building's home with enough space for a growing family gets harder and more expensive with every search. It's not surprising, based on Chicago's recent development patterns.

Almost 60% of Chicago apartments hold since 2000 are studios or one-bedrooms in building with at least five units, an archive of the U.S. Census Bureau's 2020 to 2024 American Community Survey and adults shows. In buildings with 50 or more units and 1.5% of units are three-bedrooms or more. In Chicago's two-to-four-unit buildings, less than 60% of rent-olds have at least three bedrooms, according to DePaul University's Institute for Housing Studies. The problem is that Chicago lost almost 12% of the rental units in those buildings between 2012 and 2024. The total rent-olds were single-family homes, demolitions and other factors, while large buildings account for most of the total growth.

The city is building, just not for families who are increasingly fit at least three rooms. A change in the what inventory is out there.

Chicago's business is fewer children. Residents' younger than 18 years old numbered 322,000 in 2009. Not only 1,000,000 had dropped by more than 300,000, to 500,799 — an 18.6% decline. The Urban Institute found that city couples have a higher chance of being more than 100,000, to 500,799 — an 18.6% decline. The Urban Institute found that city couples have a higher chance of being more than 100,000, to 500,799 — an 18.6% decline.

Children play in a business house during a National Night Old event at Columbia Park in the Austin community on Aug. 6, in Chicago. The number of children living in Chicago is declining. JOHN J. KIM/CHICAGO TRIBUNE

families of higher socioeconomic status having children in the first place.

Families moving out of the city leaves Chicago to pro-active site-areas. Consider Chicago Public Schools. The district has 164,000 unused seats, and nearly 60% of school buildings are underused, with severely underused high schools spending $12,500 more per student than efficiently used schools. Females contributed an debt service now consume 60% of Chicago's operating budget. From 2004 to 2021, Chicago's population shrunk by 130,214 people, while unfunded females. All genders out from $4,100 to $12,800 per resident, a Civil, PvEer drive and join found.

When Chicago loses population, there are fewer people to share the existing debt book, putting more striations these who remain.

A lack of adequate housing supply affects Chicago's tax revenue. A four-flat can generate 2.5 times as much property tax as a single-family home on the same square foot lot. Naturally, median household income (less than $90,100 for households) is up to $10 to $16,900 for those aged 18 to 54. Illinois distributes mainly a five-zone tax revenue based on population, using the most recent certified census data. Combine the loss of income tax with suppressed property tax revenue, and what you have is an unavoidable fiscal model for the city.

A few simple rule changes to the municipal code could make a massive difference in the amount of available family-friendly housing stock.

First, elements reimburse lot are over unit. Chicago's zoning code limits home's runny or parcellty mandating that each unit is copy-coupled share of land. We have over 1,250 square foot lot in an 8X5 district type. «It's all we will» not better due to a standard 2,500 square foot of lot area. In 1836's and 1856's, it's all the same size of a 1st square to 100 square foot of lot area, while a double requires only 125 square feet. The same land can legally hold more than twice as many studios. We need safety

scanners, but we should recognize the number of front doors and decrease our property tax revenue. Second, pass return for single state through the City Council. Chicago opened its requires two exit state on buildings above three stories. Consuming these state's stories floor plans that have one-bedroom units since many units will only have a single window. A pending ordinance by All, Matt Martin, 47th, would allow our interior exit state to save apartment buildings up to five stories and become their first units per floor, while ensuring that every building has up to 6 stories, short travel distances, fire alarms and inside directions. Single state allow approximately 1,000 square feet of a native lot and make three-bedroom floor plans per lot of space.

Third, allow older buildings by right where Chicago already permits apartments, especially near transit and commercial corridors. Current residential zoning, cap-many apartment buildings at 10 to 17 per. Raising these limits would allow more families to share the same-food land costs without having every project that an elongated political fight that can raise the final cost per unit.

Minimum lot areas, state rules and length cap (bar) have many and what type of units we can feasibly build. Chicago has a long history of attracting young adults. The City Council found decided it is water-incidents to save many slow years before it. It's water that is plant-zone for the long term.

For the sale of the city's long-term financial health, our legislature needs to allow families to afford to remain in Chicago.

Adam Swabzik is an founder of Chicago Growth Project and a member of Abundant Housing Illinois.

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Chicago Tribune | Section B | Sunday, August 23, 2026 3

OPINION

At $40 trillion in debt, Washington is stealing from younger generations

By Carolyn Bourdeaux SPEGG, 10/7/0 1926 AM

The national debt now exceeds $40 million. That equals roughly $125000 for every man, woman and child in the United States.

The number is shocking, but the direction should worry and overcome. Washington no longer borrows only during wars, recessions or national emergencies. The federal government now runs huge structural deficits every year. Congress quickly far more than the government collects, then adds the difference to the debt with no credible plan to stop.

At this pace, the debt could reach $5000 $1000 as soon as 2032.

That burden is already shaping the lives of Americans who enter the workforce, buy homes, start businesses and raise families. More federal borrowing, compiers with families and businesses for capital, pushing up the cost of mortgages, car loans and financing. Persistent deficits also add pressure to inflation, raising the price of rent, groceries, utilities and other necessities.

Interest costs create another squeeze. An Washington decision move off by budget to service, big debt, and some items like money for education, infrastructure, medical research, national defense and future economic emergencies. We spend more on yourself's decisions and preserve less capacity to invest in tomorrow.

Higher debt can also weaken economic growth by retooling and private investment. Businesses may delay expansion. Enterprise money for budget to find affordable financing. Young adults who already face high-burning costs, student debt and an uncertain retirement system will carry the human resources.

This is a question of generational fairness. Younger Americans do that approve decades of debt-demand loss cuts and spending increases. For Washington respect them to absorb higher costs, modern growth and lower choices. That is intergenerational

A sign displaying the national debt hangs from a building in foggy Bottom on Thursday in Washington, DC. The signs have been put up across the country made by the nonpartisan Peter G. Peterson Foundation. ANNA MERRY MANOR DEPTY

theft. One generation enjoys the benefits of borrowing while another inherit the bill.

Each portion costs the dollars. Republicans cut taxes with out paying for them. Democrats expand spending without reliable financing. Each side condemns the other while defending its own exceptions to fiscal discipline. Congress repeats the pattern because lawmakers assume the consequences will arrive after the next election.

They are wrong. The consequences already appear in the federal budget, where interest consumes an ever-larger share

of revenue. They appear in rising borrowing costs and shrinking room to respond when the country faces another recession or national emergency. Every year of delay narrows the options and raises the price.

Congress can break that cycle, but only by making the tough choices. Lawmakers should pay for new spending and tax cuts. They should reserve emergency funding for tiny emergencies, not use it as a loophole around budget rules. They also create bipartisan plan that addresses the gap between what the government promises and what

it collects.

That discussion must include spending and revenue and explicitly put the cash security. Medicare and the tax, collect the table. No serious plan can protect every priority, avoid every sacrifice and satisfy the parties completely. Governing requires trade-offs, and human health should explain them instead of protecting that borrowing efforts a position alternative.

Delay will not spare Americans from difficult choices. It will make them only harder. A fiscal crisis, higher inflation or a spike in interest rates would impose

changes quickly and quickly with the greatest possibility to people lead after is downful.

Crossing $40 million in debt should mark more than another grim headline. Congress should treat it as a trigger for action. Lawmakers must stop asking younger Americans to finance better promises and start governing as though the future matters—because it does.

Carolyn Bourdeaux is the executive director of Concord Action and the Concord Coalition and a former member of Congress from Georgia.

Voice of the People

Consider buying power lines

WIPRO has a three-time task to sustain power to northmost Indiana, after the recent events. The downed power lines, fallen trees and impacted transmission connections all come from to delays in completing repairs and removing service. As an alternative to this "damaged, first repair" routine, the electric utilities should consider burning the utility lines. That might prove to be difficult. A one-packable only expensive or just impossible, in urban areas with sewers, gas lines, fiber optic cables and whoave installed beneath stream, parkways, sidewalks and paved alleys. But in one of yourselves, it could be worthwhile.

Although.com would be comalcalable, over the long term, it would save the costs of replacing trans-mission connections, controlling poles, restringing wires and clearing debris whenever there is severe weather, which happened only often in our neck of the woods. It would also eliminate all those V-shaped trees we use after the utility companies repurten, grow in good water. And, customers would not be left in the dark, heat or cold for days or weeks.

We only benefit on electricity to make the most expensive decisions so there must be whether we than leaving critic at rather than swearing in the breeze waiting for the next motor to take them down. — Karen Mitchell, Chicago

Watch on boasting up roads

Kudover House Store Truck for the up—of Chicago forep-filling, one of the most popular in the most recent three (Aug. 15). With all the rain from steam records, our stream and roads are disintegrating faster.

The methods supposedly mitigate the problem should be taken to the best path, pushing. Good surface area, prime and finish, coatings would produce results that wouldn't delaminate the what's happening now. Regularly, the most effective solutions, at applying bandages to the wound just isn't working.

One other thing to be considered is that capitalizing add to the cost of the industrial life. With the setting the highest temperatures ever recorded in the U.S., what lighter alternative materials can be employed for the future?

— Fred J. Wittenberg, Evanston

Storm debris scents power lines south of Gary, Indiana, on Thursday. ARTHUR MAXWELL/CORCADIO TRIBUNE

Enforcing new e-bikes rules

In response to the Nugly's letter "Kapalate e-bikes, e-scooters" (Aug. 19), I feel like pain, having experienced near misses as a pedestrian, especially from speeding motor/bloss disheveling food.

I did an online search and found that, according to the Chicago Municipal Code, it's against the law to rule motorized vehicles on Chicago sidewalks. My allowance is office was sympathetic and adrenaline to take a photo of the lawbreaker's license plate and send it to the Chicago Police Department.

To undercover the seriousness of the matter, the Illinois legislature passed new statewide legislation (SB 2404) to regulate electric micromobility devices, including high-speed e-scooters, e-bikes and e-slumboards. The proposed law, awaiting the previous legislature, establishes uniform agn minimums, bans sidewalk riding, and sets road and bike lane rules across the state.

The real roadblock, at least so far, seems to be the lack of enforcement and penalties. Let's hope a solution is found before someone is seriously injured or even dies.

— Chris Royo, Chicago

Risks of e-bikes and e-scooters

Parents are aware of the importance of correctly installed car seats. They pay attention to on-duty of toys, food and formula. Cells must be properly sized. Students and hunters paid are not advisable in cells. No sleeping babies on their tumours. The law governs.

Why then, I must ask, are some parents willing to buy e-bikes and e-scooters for their children? I have seen young teens this spring and summer fall along as if nothing could touch them. Some of these bikes have slots for phones so they can stay tuned to all the clutter that fills their minds. They are not paying attention.

Who thinks that this is Off! Whatever was wrong, with fact—the chat had to be padded. Is there a cutoff age for child safety? I think not.

It is a tragedy when a child is injured or killed using these vehicles.

— Cynthia Marla, Palos Park

Skyrocketing property tax bill To the Tribune Editorial Board, I just checked my Cook County property tax bill. It went up 1910. The editorial board has to do another feature on this assessment cycle. My tax bill is almost as much as my mortgage now (I

bought my home in 2020).

Here are the county family thief Michael Perrinzi, Palatine

When Kennedy, Reagan debated

If you're a year baby boomer, I understand why we boomer, thus, now you. We don't have to embrace the same moves, food, music — or politics. But most of us have been around long enough to miss things such as bipartisanship among lawmakers and parents of utility.

You're only one when you have a moment, please Google! When Bobby Kennedy and Ronald Reagan Defeated! Ronald Reagan was then California governor, and U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was the father of the governor who was ever, health and human services secretary. As you listen, compare Reagan to meaning with today's conservation. What are your impressions of Kennedy and the acting and trading about his son Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in recent years?

I won't tell you what to think. I have better, I wonder, though, if we have more in common than

we realize. We might be nostalgic over the same things. — Jim Stevens, Itasca, Illinois

The e-bikes to show support I read that families of service members should the US$ Lincoln are trying a yellow ribbon to a tree to show their support.

The new people are not all in a yellow ribbon to cross to show our support, one concern and thanks for these boxes Marlene and radore and all current military personnel in the Middle East.

— Elizabeth Butler Marvin, Chicago

How reading 'Boats' affected me

Rick Kogart's piece in the Aug. Tribune ("I'm sure up, 'Boats' burnt into American lives") was very interesting. I was one of those who encountered 'Boats' the first time around, reading it to the fall of 1976. It had a profound impact on me and is much definitely my all-time favorite book. Also Haley seamlessly wore together the interior of such generations of his family. It is way that still evokes deep emotion for me.

I remember reading the very first part about Kuzni Kimi. The moment he was taken from his homeland broke my heart. But I was hooked. I could not put the book down.

Regardless of how Haley obtained the moment, he made every character come alive and told a story that I'm sure a familiar in some way to every African American family.

It is a classic tale, master fully written, about a huge part of our America industry, and I think every American should read it. — Judy Wisk, Oak Park

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VINTAGE CHICAGO TRIBUNE BREAKING HISTORY SINCE 1847

When Valentino swooned

FILM STAR COLLAPSED. DIED BEFORE HE COULD SETTLE A GRUDGE WITH A TRIBUNE EDITORIAL WRITER

By Mark Caro CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Rudolph Valentino's untimely death-ready a century ago may have served a Tribune writer from getting a kimcillin sandwich from the world's most beloved celebrity.

The Italian actor, dancer, inspector, still unhealthy as insulting editorial the paper published in July 1926, died at age 31 on Aug. 23 from complications from peritonitis. He had collapsed 4 days earlier, then underwent surgery for a gastric ulcer and what appeared to be appendicitis.

Some consider Valentino to be the world's first international sex symbol, and he was a mononymous one. Those four infidels. Vo-lon-to-no, were enough to set hearts aflame.

He became known as the Latin Lover — and popularized Argentinians tango — with his breakthrough role in Rex Ingram's "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse," 1925 highway growing film. Later that year, he commented his heartfelt statue as the title character of George Mellor's love-of-fees smash "The Shink," followed by Fred Miller's 1927 hit "Blood and Sand."

The first time he was able to create a film industry award, the Rudolph Valentino-Made, four years before the Academy Awards were launched. The winner of the inaugural 1925 medal was actor John Barrymore for his performance in "Tenn Re-zoned."

Valentino was beloved in Chicago and spent much time in the city, particularly during the two-year gap between "Blood and Sand" and his next film, "Monsieur Beauclaire" (1914), when the actor was looking home with his film studio, Funeral Planers-Ladey To remain in the public eye, Valentino and his second wife, Natasha Ramboya (Island as Windford Hudson Valentino), retired full on the Mississippi Dance Tour, which included an extended engagement at the Trianon Ballroom in Woodlawn. As the Tribune reported on Feb. 18, 1925:

"It's all Valentino, the Italian check of shovlin, caused 1,000 feminine heartwits, palpitate yesteroles afternoon as he danced at the Trianon ballroom, 42d street and Cottage Grove avenue. At the same time he won more than one smile of recognition from the 1,000 Harold Toms and Chicago shovlin who had accompanied the feminine hearts to the exhibition.

He's the best, all agreed." (Harold Toms was a Tribune comic strip of the time.) Valentino's appearances at the Trianon continued until, as Cristiano story reported on Feb. 25, 1924, the ballroom's manager announced that the dancer's upcoming shows had been cancelled because Valentino "suddenly" demanded his pay be doubled. The situation apparently worked out for Valentino, given the ad in the Tribune for Valentino and his wife performing Feb. 26 and beyond at Marigold, at Broadway and Grace Street. "Engaged for a limited period at the highest salary ever paid an activity any cafe in the world." A March 3 ad for Marigold announced: "Swing to their tremendous popularity Rudolph Valentino and Windford Hudson Valentino, with their Argentine Orchestra, are held over for another week."

Another ad re-signed the couple "Dancing Their Original Revolution Stage" March 7 at the Actors' Fund Animal Benefit at the Auditorium Theatre. After striking a deal to return to movies, Valentino made a brief stop at Chicago into the following year, according to a Nov. 20, 1924, Tribune story with the headline "Valentino Hires with Antique Spanish Board".

"Looking a little tamer and a little sleepy, but very friendly, Rudolph Valentino, with his new board, and Mrs. Valentino, Miss Nina Niddi, Miss Niddi's postage stamps nine page, a few pages, ... Most and twenty, rotamore, stopped in Chicago yesterday for four hours on their way to California, where Mr. Valentino will be able to express his soul in pictures of his choice under the modest banner of his new 1925 "Cafeteria company".

"(Nita Niddi was Valentino's 'Blood and Sand' so one.)"

But Chicago would become a source of anguish for Valentino thanks to an editorial published in this newspaper on July 18, 1926, less than a month before his collapse. The assigned piece, titled "Pink Powder Puffs," lamented that a North Side ballroom had installed a dispenser of pink face powder in the entire room. The editorial held you know who responsible for "this degenerative into effusionary."

"Why didn't some one usually drown Rudolph's leg before, alias Valentino, years ago?" it asked.

The editorial went to declare: "Better a rather ridiculous woman than by effeminate men. Man began to slip, we are beginning to believe, when he discarded the straight razor for the safety pattern. We shall not be surprised when we hear that the safety is in total power or in the beginning."

The piece concludes: "Body, the beautiful goddess's best, is the prototype of the American male. He'll be the 6th, sugar."

Valentino did not respond well to this album, said The New York Times was there for his reaction, reporting on July 21, 1926, that he had voted to return to Chicago "to what the man who wrote it."

Valentino subsequently held court at New York's United Artists offices, where the

Rudolph Valentino tips his hat in Chicago circa 1926. The film star died that August at age 31. CHICAGO AMERICAN

A memorial for Rudolph Valentino was held at Chicago's Trianon Ballroom in Chicago on Aug. 30, 1926. The Tribune reported hundreds of people said their request, at the same time the actor's funeral was held in New York. CHICAGO TRIBUNE HISTORICAL PHOTO

Silent film star Rudolph Valentino's breakthrough role came in "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" in 1925. AP

Times reported that "the film star expressed regret that America is here for both the historic deaths but said he would offer his critic, as those of a boxing ring or wrestling mat to prove ... which is the better man."

"I am now waiting," Valentino said through set lips, "for that individual to make himself known, I am ready to go through within. This is not publicity. The man ever stopped all bounds of discovery and right thinking. I will go back to Chicago and give him what he deserves. Only one thing would prevent it — if he were feeble or old, or too young. If he is too old, he should have known better. If he is too young, I'll speak him. All journalists should be ashamed of him, whoever he is."

Valentino was unable to extract his responses, as the editorial writer's name was not revealed, and the international star soon became incapacitated. But the Tribune remained on his mind even as he awoke from surgery, with The New York Times reporting: "In her case out of the anesthetic it was said, he looked up at Dr. Durham and asked, 'Doctor, am I a Pink Puff?'" "He indeed," replied the doctor, "You have been very brave."

Shortening the ago-old divide between the Tribune's newsroom and its editorial board, the news paper treated Valentino's illness with a reverence befitting a world leader. The newspaper put the actor's collapse on the front page with the headline

"Valentino Under Exile, Death Feared." (The story quoted Valentino calling: "Doctor, am I a pink powder puff!" with no reference to the editorial.)

On Aug. 23, which turned out to be the day of his death, the Tribune met a large-type, all-caps front page banner headline "VALENTINO LOW CRISIS NEAR." The next day's front page presented the legal news in the system of the day "MOURM DEATH OF VALENTINO".

The Aug. 23 front page featured yet another all-caps banner headline: "KEPT TO SEE DEAD VALENTINO" (That story detailed how 450,000 people had defied police around the New York shape) where the star's body was lying in state. When the train transporting his body from New York to Hollywood and the 1,000,000 in Lake Station on Sept. 3, police officers formed lines to prevent another illness. Some grooving fans still managed to run onto the tracks, as June Everest wrote an 1,000 Tribune piece headlined "...Valentino, how many hearts you broke!"

Valentino wasn't quickly forgotten in Chicago. Mavis theaters pioneered "The Seas of the Shots" — "In reference to thousands of separate shows of regular persons, we show Mr. Valentino's last picture," a September ad for the 72nd and the South Side road. A Sept. 10 Walgreens ad touted: "FREE A 7-9 inch background Photo of Rudolph Valentino to Each Customer

While 100,000 (Last!"

In June 1977, then Tribune movie critic Gene Siskel wrote about a Valentino "revival" that included two weeks of films and lectures at the Film Center at the Art Institute (now the Siskel/Film Center).

Siskel's story took note of Valentin—he branded slow oil and cigars, as well as the best-selling people that he named after Valentino's "potent" title character in "The Shots." Valentine had been portrayed in actions by Anthony Doctor (Lewis Adams "Valentino," 1913), Rudolf Nureyev (Ken Russell's "Valentino," 1977), Gene Wilder (as Budy Valentine in his 1977 novel "The World's Greatest Love!") and Finn Wernick (as a vampire Valentine in the 2018-16 season of "American Hero's Story").

And if you experience sharp abdominal pain, let's hope you don't have what now is known as Valentino's syndrome.

Nevertheless, Valentino made quite an impact during a short life filled with romantic, estrangement, intrigue and laboration. As he told choosing Chicago star after dancing at the Trianon Ballroom, "I am grateful for this reception of just an ordinary man."

Short Care hosts the weekly Caregne podcast (caregne.com) and is a former longtime Tribune reporter and critic. Drive in idea for Vintage Chicago Tribune! Share it with Marianne Mather at mmahm@chicagotribune.com.

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US Canada trade war deepens rift

Carney strikes back after Trump's 50% levy on some goods

By Paul Wiseman and Chris Dillon ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — The United States and Canada, former, third, most severely-fended border, fell deeper into a trade war. Saturday marked by angry recriminations and new tariffs that are expected to raise prices for products in both countries.

Each additional the other for the collapse of negotiations in Washington late Friday, leading the US to impose 50% tariffs on $18 billion worth of Canadian goods and Canada setting they 8 in the start of its miniature penalties.

President Donald Trump's import taxes will let about 5% of what Canada ships to the United States every year, ranging from hockey sticks to tongue depressors.

Prime Minister Carney said Ottawa would respond with targeted tariff protection for industries copewiths the new U.S. dates, including those with a 50% tax rate, a 50% mention of the dairy,405,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

No further talks were planned.

Whatever the eventual outcome, a loss of trust seems one of the earliest casualties.

Carney accused Washington of using "economic interference in everyone" and not "in signature was written in press"!

Resorting to the language of battle, he said he could try had been "attacked" by the new American tariffs

Canadian Prime Minister Nikki Carney addresses the trade war Saturday in Ottawa, Ontario. DAVE CHARNEETTY-APP

"You're at war when you get attacked," he said, adding that Canada had the meeting, residence and plan to respond.

But is Trump's chief trade agreement, American claims the U.S. was compelled to advise your of retaliation by its longtime partner.

"We've said enough, and as we've taken countermeasures that interest was protecting American workers and protecting American supply chains," the U.S. trade representative told "Fon & French Weekend."

Carney said Canada had been willing to drop remains my retaliatory tariffs on steel, aluminum and antret if the U.S. substantially lowered its own, and to enslaved gas producers to restore U.S. alcohol

sales. But he said Washington has tried demands went too far.

"They asked too much and offered too little," Carney said.

He said the Republicans administration was offering to cut tariffs on steel, antret and lumber, "things that are sensitive for them. And they've always had the best deal, and they sell themselves in your better deal, but they didn't want that."

As a result, he said, "We're moving forward with measures that respond to Canadian retaliation."

Carney said the U.S. added last-minute terms that would have reduced tariff relief for Canadian resale—which is restricted Canada's ability to strike trade deals with other

countries and weakened protections for language, culture and sovereignty.

He said such demands were "unacceptable".

"The breakdown in negotiations marked a reversal from two days earlier, when officials from the two countries sounded as if they were headed toward a compromise."

Dorane Premier Doug Ford, who leads Canada's most populous province, praised Carney for rejection, the deal, saying it would have hurt Ontario's unto, and said manufacturing sectors that urged Canada to use "every tool in our toolbox" to fight the U.S. tariffs.

The answer also call into question the future. As North American trade agreement

covering the United States, Canada and Mexico that is crucial to industry in all three countries.

Carney said the breakdown was "certainly not good news" for the work of that agreement and that the failed negotiations had given Canada "a new perspective" on what Washington wants from the broader economic relationship.

The political impact will likely be even bigger than the economic failure. The countries deal each other $340 billion worth of goods and services last year.

"The tariffs were initially supposed to kick in the three-day Trump extended the deadline for three days to allow talks to continue, but the countries could not reach

an agreement in time.

The U.S. and Canada have wrangled for decades over trade picking into other sources open such as Canadian softwood lumber imports and U.S. access to Canada's protected dairy market.

Somehow, they still managed to remain friends. Canadian soldiers fought with North America and in Afghanistan after the Sept. 11, 2005 terrorist attacks. The 5,525-mile U.S. Canada border is undefended, and expected to be a 1,000 million $1 billion worth of goods cross 8 every day. 800,000 Canada and five in the United States.

Trump's approach to dealing with Canada marks a signature from the tradition of the government's campaign between the two countries. Trump has imposed tariffs on Canadian goods to spunk to keep manufacturing back to the United States and made inflammatory comments about turning Canada into America's first state.

Carney said Canada had recognized that "America has changed."

Nearly 72% of Canada's goods exports last year went to the United States.

The Trump administration might be wary of imposing new tariffs—partly U.S. importers who try to pass along the cost to consumers via higher prices—before the November audience election.

Joshua Robins, CEO of the Business Roundtable, which represents leaders of major U.S. companies, warned the tariffs and retaliations only "risking costs for American businesses and families" and disrupting vital supply chains, and urged both governments to ensure negotiations.

Mexico to send livestock to US after yearlong ban

Tight border controls to slow exports amid screeworm concerns

By Patrick Kershaw ASSOCIATED PRESS

HERSHEY, U.S. Mexico—At Atherosok, rancher Martin Allman: Hurts takes advantage of the cooler hours in northern Mexico's desert to increase the rodding of his cows and tend to be joined calves. Soon, he hopes, they will be headed north to the United States as a yearlong ban on Mexican cattle imports comes to an end.

The two imposed over concerns about a flash-saving parasite known as the New World screeworm fly. And, a blow to cattle and beef industry on both sides of the border, exacerbating a livestock shortage in the US and keeping a Mexican ranch, supports already weakened production and has been a big business that generated $1.2 billion for Mexico last year.

Now, the U.S. is set to resume livestock imports from Mexico beginning Monday at the Douglas, Arizona, border crossing, which borders Agua Prieto

in Mexico's Sonora state. If the reopening goes smoothly, the U.S. Department of Agriculture could allow imports through additional ports, though shipments will initially be subject to restrictions aimed at preventing the spread of the parasite, which has already crossed the border, with authorities battling cases in Texas and New Mexico.

"The screeworm gets a name from the maggot habit of harvesting—or screeworm—into a wound, according to the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Any warm-blooded animal, including wildlife, pets and even humans, can be infested.

In Mexico, the screeworm outbreak was detected in November 2024 and has spread to 80 of the 52 states—most recently in Sonora, where the first case was reported Wednesday in the community of Miamitaan, near the border, with Chihuahua and Sinaloa, state where infectious bites also proliferated.

To date, Mexico has 1,969 active screeworm cases, which represents less than half of the infections reported a year ago, a

decline that authorities are shown progress in containing the outbreak. Still, they are campaign eradication will take into

Against that backdrop. That is and thousands of other ranchers in the northern state of Sonora are preparing to resume live cattle imports that optimizes a temporally new US controls expected to slow shipments.

"That's not over yet," said the 50-year-old ranchier, whose export half cut his income by 40% last year.

According to the protocol defined by U.S. authorities, in the first week of reopening, only 700 cattle per day will be allowed through; this will run to 600 in the second week and will gradually increase used earnings. 1,800 cattle per day, veterinarian Arturo Ruiz, responsible for animal tariffs for the state of Sonora, told The Associated Press.

The new ranch also requires cattle to be fitted with radio frequency identification tapes in their ears and screened by electronic readers and trained days. Officials from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will conduct the inspections before allowing the Mexican cattle to cross

A veterinarian appears artificially to a calf's hurt eye Tuesday during an import transaction on a regional cattle racturer association in two months. Mexico. HERSHEY-ALLMAN-IP

into Arizona, Ruiz explained. Mexico accepted the US protocols, but the restrictions have frustrated some local ranchers. "We are at a complicated moment when we need authorities to think how publicly and interactively, usually and reasonably," said Juan Carlos Isco, president of the Regional Livestock Union of Sonora, referring to tensions between the Mexican and US governments where the ban was first imposed in May 2024.

Ochoa said the new U.S. restrictions would limit shipments and argued that a greater flow of cattle across the border is needed to address supply shortages in

both countries.

Although both countries felt the effects of Washington's decision, the impact was greater in the U.S. particularly for consumers facing record-high beef prices that led some to cut back on meat. Juan Carlos Azura, general director of agricultural consulting firm Grupo Consultor de Mercadeo Agricola, said U.S. ranchers were unable to make up the supply shortfall, contributing to concerns at numerous processing plants and hurting heather operations.

Before the border closure, Mexico exported about 1.2 million head of cattle to the United States each year,

mainly from its northern states. When exports were suspended, Mexican ranchers turned to the Sonora to market, where they sold their cattle for nearly 40% less than they had received in the U.S. — those of income that forced many to sell some of their cattle or cut spending and investment.

Back in Sonora, in the capital, November 26, there was a 1,000 million ranch about finally wedging its cash to the U.S. but he said he would reopen his expectations until October, when the ranch have gained enough weight and the sale could be finalized.

"The crisis need to get too excited," he said.

Tuned Aichi Fletcher, a lunar eclipse near Micali, Utah. A lunar eclipse will happen later this week. AULE JACOBSON-OP-2019

Near-total lunar eclipse to take its turn in the sun

By Marcia Dunn ASSOCIATED PRESS

CAPE CANNVERAL, Fla.—Now it's the most true to pull a long running set.

After being shut out of the month's total solar eclipse, the American will have the best seats in the celestial house when Earth's shadow breaks through the moon.

Almost the entire lunar surface will be marked Thursday night into Friday — a shopping first— making this a deep partial eclipse.

The moon is already in the spotlight.

NASA sent the Artemis II astronauts on a record-breaking lunar flight in April, the prelude to eventually landing in the surface and building a base swarming with people and others over the next several years.

"This is a great time to be part of the space program right! We're not slowing down," NASA astronaut Joe Hathaway said this month from the International Space Station.

It's the second set of the greatest show in the solar system, coming two weeks after a total solar eclipse paraded through Greenland, Iceland and Spain.

Eclipse always travel at pairs at the sun, moon and Earth align to precisely that one obscene the other. That's because the moon is 400 times smaller than the sun, which is 400 times farther away, making them appear the same size — a cosmic coincidence and gift from the universe.

The eclipse's moon will be visible to billions of people across North and South America, Europe, Africa and the Middle East, provided the dates are clear. The lunar eclipse may also be visible to Hathaway and the true other people living off the plane—seven astronauts at the International Space Station and three other China's orbiting support.

The eclipse will peak just after midnight EDT. This is the year's second lunar eclipse.

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European fires expose buried bombs

WWI, WWII cannot pose (frenz) to crews battling vast blazes

By Sam McNeil ASSOCIATED PRESS

ELSEWHERE: Belgium — The wildfire/battling across Europe this summer have exposed a powerful skull? But the damage to the world blackened landscape many bombs and mines from World War I and II that threaten crews, respecting the 70-floor.

Some of the weapons have exploded at the intense heat. Many have been reported in Belgium, France, Germany, and the United States. The fire is bomb-dispaced team was dispatched to check a bomb threatened by flames near a site of force fighting in the Latviaechee area.

Pursch's climate changes the fires and explosions show that the continent's Climate, but it's running out, and Sarah Noes, a press-asked-miller in their own position, is the first to attack and attack on bodies. Beach temperatures and ATTACKs, able a rainfall once removed that most heated weapons state in France.

"Climate change is now

Bomb squadr members act next to defaced US-her World War I bomb in Frankfurt, Germany. MICHAEL FROST/THY-ROY

doing the work of uttering and reactivating what was previously stated," Noes said. How can game-alimentation attack also have many fire breath that leaks them.

This wildfire season was supercharged by heavy mass in January that sports-things were poorly, which became kindling when the summer heat arrived. These temperatures, combined with drought conditions, low humidity and stiff winds, offered all kind environment for fire, including to a more intense heat month by the World Weather Ambulance group. As they advanced, the flames moved over northern, but has long been known to hold unsophisticated weapons,

a lethal legacy that lingered into after the guns left behind. As a forest in timber-dry France, a massive wildfire outside the southwestern city of Bordeaux uncovered a cache of what is believed to World War II-era ammoniators.

In the eastern Belgium province of Liege, Gov. Hervé Amos said it "one episode devastation" were recently heard and that emergency services were adapting to account for reposition/harter in a fire area. He said no fire crews were in danger, but in schooling, unblinded pieces of a firefighter handling a round head.

During World War II, hooby traps, bombs and

mines were sprinkled throughout the province's American long-bred known as the High-Pass. In the first four years after Germany's surrender in 1945, the mountains killed six civilians, said Bernard Collard, a local historian who runs the Tria-Libiano Museum near Belgium's border with Germany. that feature, a collection of found objects from the war.

"When you go into a forest like this, you are not sure where the explosion can be said.

He remember his father demanding a found-hood to a quarter.

"In the in the High Pass, which stretches a front the border with Germany, is needlessly top a much-blooded battlefield where Nazis fought killed troops. The Battle of the Ridge was fought in and around the High Pass.

The fire is even closer to the street/west-bone known alarm/miss along Kloeckow Ridge and its 70th largest Passes, which lasted 44 days and killed about 32,000 Americans and 8,000 German troops.

Collard is authorized to scan with a metal detector the former battlefield,

now fences, pumans and farmland. He has found mortar shells, machine guns, helmets, cigarette cases, and mocs, shatters skeleton.

"You never know what you might come across, and you should I take it lightly," Collard said while standing in a field that was once a blood-soaked site. Noes's bluefeet's bodies cover old hacheles, tortoises and deep craters from artillery fire.

He frequently works with the Belgian donating squad "It's part of our history. We live with a," Collard said.

Untrophable ordnance is even more dangerous around wildfires because host can trigger the explosives, said Amos Pope, a spokesperson for North Rhine-Westphalia, just across the border of Germany.

The Belgian Ministry of Defence said it receives requests from the region about every week to assist in disarming explosives, yet it does not consider the area a "hot-spot" compared to elsewhere in Belgium.

Such requests are even more common in the west, where farmers in towns such as Tyres—infamous for barrening much over the six months that — call the annual tilling of the soil "the iron

harvest "because it turns up so many war remnants.

Every year across the nation, Belgians's Explosion-Defences Disposed and Destructed, the most responsible more than 1,000 calls and disposes of 200 to 240 tons of maritime left over from both world wars.

Doughfries also helped the 10th generation for the killing rivers, and also to reveal all weapons.

In Slovakia, the Dundee River fell and exposed two sand-stained old-pulch-pulled out of the water and buried in a trench fire a controlled demolition, authorities in Hungary closed Budapest's Margins-Polka office. A bomb during from World War II emerged at its base in social big wars.

As the Rhine dried up, German authorities also found a WWII on bomb.

Christians Greece, a member at the University of Arizona who, with Noes, wrote an article on Europe's wildfires and unsophisticated ordnance visit, said "The legend of war keeps creeping up" because of climate change.

"It's definitely legalized of war and conflict in a way that we haven't had to deal with in a while in certain places."

NEWS BRIEFING

Tropical Storm Moke nears Hawaii as winds, heavy rain strengthen

FROM NEWS SERVICES

HONOLULU — Tropical Storm Moke advances toward Hawaii as winds, flashy bringing nears heavy rainfall and strong gusts to the Big Island, where rears have an odd leading rubbish aftermath of heavy flooding and damaging winds from Harris and Lala.

Moke, which formed Friday in the Pacific Ocean, was located about 40 miles southeast of Miko, moving west-northwest at 12 mph, as of 5 am, on Saturday in Hawaii. Maximum sustained winds were around 30 mph. The National Museum Center said.

As with Hurricane Lala, the Big Island is expected to buy the heart of Moloi's rain to be the first time. The storm is so costly to directly direct/take better day into early Sunday.

Moke will then continue in westward path near the Pacific Ocean, with Tuesday, and Casey Stewart, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Honolulu.

Moke is an offsite region in a capacity to the windward and southward sides of the Big Island, but it will probe the low 1000-hr more fastest high land areas with Lake Osmari said.

Lala doesn't know, except buildings off their foundations. Amongst roads are the most common sources covered in mud and rocks, the storm which both are reported.

Rainfall predictions for the weekend for the southeast and windward sides of the Big Island were not as evident with as much as 10 inches in isolated areas, Osmari said.

Across the rest of the island chain, 1 to 2 inches of rain was expected. Though parts of east Moloi and also up to 6 inches, she said.

These were no coastal watches or warnings in effect with Saturday morning, but people were urged to monitor the atomic program. The rainfall has the potential to cause dangerously current, the showmaking the ding and muddden, especially when a areas and places where the ground remains unnatural, the centre said.

Pops urges talks, not wait. Pope Lee, XIV, said a visit to the first landholder's last Marine and a major Catholic gathering in the Italian city. Rimmis on Saturday to assist one of his strongest guests, yet against war, polmonium and social division, urging followers to foster dialogue and friendship in a fractured world.

Speaking to tens of thousands in Rimmis, Lee warned against a dissor that "nurture minds, words and nations" and argued that Christmas, visit coupons with one encounter and a commitment to peace.

Earlier, in San Marino, Lee addressed the death of the war in the world's oldest surviving republic and reflected on the legacy of future Marine and Livese, whom he credited with helping nears a swamp roost in freedom, mutual respect and community.

San Marino, a nation of about 35,000 people completely surrounded by Italy, traces its origins to the fourth century. It is governed by a 40-member parliament that elects two captains regret every six months to

Mounting student: Residents leave flowers and candles at a residential. Memorial Saturday suitable a school in Fagerola, Sweden a day after a 19-year-old girl was killed and three other people were injured in a mental attack at the school. The school principal said the attacker was a student. The suspect, 18, was taken into custody. MAGNOLIA BALLNETTY-APP

serve jointly at hands of others a power-sharing, yet many, metering and no present the consummation of authority.

Using the above state is an example. Lee argued that "small political communities and other lessons in public service and social cohesion at a time of growing division and division".

Deadly collision in England: Severe people, including two police officers, were killed early Saturday in a head in a fashion as a natural England following a pursuit.

Cleveland Police said that a Wollongong-Pansal carrying five people was traveling for wrong, but down the Aul highway near Middlesbrough and collided with a police vehicle on the same road going in the right direction.

The severe people were pronounced in a decline some of the 1,000-hr of rain. There is often no one else, sited as Matthew Ricks and

Tony Cough, Cleveland police Chief Constable Victoria Fuller said.

Prime Minister Andy Bursham said that he was "deceased" in four of his 20,000- to 40th and eight people to reveal speculation at this time.

Ebola outbreaks: Congenital trend more than 6,000 doses of the Ebola vaccine as the country people with the latent Ebola outbreaks is history. By country's health insurance said.

"The in 250 doses arrived at the British International Airport in the capital, England, the Polish year, and the British Air Force, the United States from the World Health Organization and partners the were announced Thursday.

The current 250- to 40th outbreak in Cengiz is caused by the rare handling of the 1,000- to 40th outbreak, so no approved treatment or vaccine. It can spread easily

and go-audeterated because some of its symptoms are similar to other illnesses, such as malaria. The Ebola vaccine is licensed to treat Ebola and has been effective to get outbreak. The Ebola and it may provide some protection against the funds begun virus.

The latest outbreak, which has been the last 2,107 deaths out of the 5,277 confirmed cases across six affected provinces, is spreading at a degree of death rate and is not yet recognised as a natural outbreak on record, which killed over 15,000 people across West Africa between 2016 and 2016. Data from the data are not yet available. Control shows that it means that has not yet pushed any could reach three times its harvest rate.

All captains, 10th & A local serving, outpants captured off the coast of southern Tunisia, killing at least two

people and leaving 12 missing. Tunician national guard said Saturday. One survivor was rescued.

Guard spokespersons Hussam Khabar, Khabli and many were agency TAF authorities recovered two bodies and researched them to a hospital on the nearby island of Epohia. He said national guard abusing TAF about 25 people were believed to be aboard the boat when it took off between the cities of Zecca and Ben-Gurulian.

The boat had an 80-amp Thursday, and a commercial ship found the sole survivor Saturday in a life jacket. Muscases reported, citing remorse from the episode.

A helicopter and coast guard leader from then dispatched to the area in search of more survivors, according to an Associated Press spokesperson that the 1,000- to 40th highs were believed to be headed toward Italy.

NANCY KASSEBAUM BAKER 1932-2026

Political trailblazer in Kansas moved into spotlight as senator

By John Hanna ASSOCIATED PRESS

TOPEKA, Kan. — Nancy Kassebaum Baker, a Kansas mayor, has been a major who became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate without following a separate one office, that Friday this was 14.

Kassebaum Baker died of natural trauma, but was, Bill Kassebaum, said.

"She loved Kansas. She loved people from Kansas and represented Kansas for the past few U.S. months," he said. "She was an independent-minded daughter, can who was willing to stand up for what she thought was. She was a good, appropriate against the party."

She was directly due U.S. Senate in 1978 and served three terms.

Her modest demeanor

Former Sen. Nancy Kassebaum Baker, a Kansas, was elected to the Senate in 1978. CAROLYN KASTEN-OP-2012 endorsed her to voters of 10 political stripes, though she shared the moderate, progressive Republicans' politics of her father, Gov. of Lansing, the state senator, and 1956 GOP senators. He presided. Everything having the future early in 1997, she continued taking on public service roles.

She married former Sen.

Howard Baker, a Tennessee Republican, in 1996. He died in 2016.

Her election to the Senate brought her immediate internal attention. When the caucasian had her retirement, she was always right to some senators and the only one to clear a Senate committee. He Labor and Human Resources panel.

She was also in a deceding film of moderate-to-florest Republicans, having supported for a supply a look on a small everyone change over the President's Bill Clinton, a Democrat.

Yet she never polarized Kansas conservatives as other GOP862 Senators. She has commenced with voters because she never seemed caught up in the trapping of power, and when she retired, she achieved legal "fit rather cuddle-up and do

no different all day."

She was born July 24, 1952, at her father, an infant from Independence, was running for the State/District terms of political and national political science degree from the University of Kansas and master's degree in diplomatic history from the University of Michigan in the mid-1970s.

She was a radio station in Texas, a special year in the 1970s on the staff of Kansas Sen. James Pearson and served on the school board in the Wichita.edu of Dallas. She had four children with her first husband, Phil Kassebaum, including Bill, who served a term in the Kansas House. The training ended in the school and 1977.

When Kassebaum Baker decided to run for the U.S. Senate, she figured that it worked with a background different from a man might

be appealing," to people growing worry of politics. In the first quarter of 1979, she spent less than $12,000 on her campaign, and can benefit "of the U.S. government."

However, nine candidates received the primary field, including three state senators and a pensioner. With inclusionรรหัส.

Kassebaum Baker was the GOP senators who took than 10% of the vote. Running at least 1,000 in Kassebaum, she won almost 14% of the vote that November against former Senators, the senators on congressman Bill Roy.

Her moderate politics quickly came to the first when, months later, she was a member of the U.S. Constitution to require citizens of budget. "We should be wary of the seemingly simple solution," she said.

Her father, who would die at age 100 in 1997, still sent a long political shadow during her first years in office. Though he'd never be doing it, he was a consistent act to Democratic incumbent Franklin Research, he later became an older statesman for the party. A lecture series named for him at Kansas State University attracted president and foreign leaders.

Later in life, Kassebaum Baker broke with the Republican Party and became more conservative.

She also declared in 2021 that President Donald Trump should be approached after Trump supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol hoping to stop congressional certification of Trump's defeat in 2023 by Democrats for Biden. "This isn't too great too for," she told Kansas City's KMPC.

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Most devoted aide to Trump emerges

'Human partner' rarely talks but always appears by president's side

By Sharon Mccowan and Maggie Huberman THE NEW YORK TIMES

WASHINGTON — She never takes a day off, so even Natalie! She works out off the Owl Office and she has a regular return Marine One. She tries with social issues to do the pro-train! Natalie! She stars up late with him drafting social media posts.

She rarely speaks on camera and yet she is seen on there, two persons else, a wide smile and her eye fixed on the president.

She is Natalie Harp, 18, the West Wing aide who is the utmost gatekeeper in President Donald Trump, a one-woman combat of information operating entirely outside the usual chain of command. The public's understanding uploated all the day, he revealed that month to be one of the lucky few who joined the president and a airplane catering container to be withheld out of Turkey under threat of attack by him.

Last week she became the subject of a public of attack line delivered by hon. Jon Ossoff. It do, who said of the president: 'He doesn't want to do the job. He wants to build his bathroom and travel with Natalie on their opponents. Ab彻底ine thing, palate gifted by the emir of Qatar.'

The memory singing out of Harp triggered a particularly ferocious response from some concern of Trump world. When House aides lawmakers on Capitol Hill, conservative influencers and at least one Cabinet member took to the compare on the social media platform. It is indeed Harp's boss: There were accusations of serious from the right and wise to unnefelterly from the left.

Trump defended what's a reporter from CNN asked him about Ossoff's

comments. But social media account rarely the administration then attacked the reporter in personal terms, sending her children.

The latest statement of a spotlight on this address-based from and withheld woman who has long fascinated and frustrated people around the president. This article is based on interviews with a half-dozen people with knowledge of her role. Harp did not respond to a reporter for comment.

The unique power Trump offends her says much about how he functions as president.

As long as Harp is about, he enjoys an unsettled flow of information, some of a poisonous and counterproductive, at least as far as number of his other advisers are concerned. He suggests him with content the father out of the social media gutter. Like the video he posted, depicting the Okahua in quest and provides him with a new front for world outside official Washington, of which he has always been underconfined.

Her moniker is 'the human partner' because she tells the president with a portable printer so she can hand him information in hard copy.

She is a platinum-based geyser of positivity, there is back him up when the geys gets rough. She believes, or at least volumously claims to believe that he totally won the 2020 election in the book 'Regime Changi' by New York Times reports on Maggie Huberman and Jonathan Swan. Trump is described as explaining a people that Harp is the only one who loves him as much as his wife and children.

All his other staff will go off and make money. Trump would say, but Harp will never know him.

'Natalie Harp is one of the most loyal and hard-own-whiting aides on President Trump's team,' Karolina Lazaris, the White House press secretary who will soon be leaving her post, said in response to questions from the Times about the nature of Harp's position and why the war changes to join the president on the secret food delivery route to excise gambit.

In some way, Harp is filling a role that Trump has always regarded, going back to his days as a real entree developer in Manhattan. Back then, there were always secretaries sitting outside his office on the 26th floor of Trump Times, ready at a moment vanish to buy to it. He ordered to these women as 'the girls.'

Harp collects a response-funded salary of $100,000. Her double-burned title is special assistant to the president and executive assistant to the president. At work she can be a bit of a loner. Even in this West Wing, in which loyalty to the president seems to know no bounds, Harp's displays of devotion have unnerved some of her colleagues.

Jews of video shared with the Times show Harp spinning across great distances to hang up with Trump's spot cart as it pushes across her course in Scotland. 'I also know of a 1-year an embarrassment walking the course in Scotland,' she wrote in a letter to the president that was covered by the Times.

The letter goes on to say, 'I want things to always be right between us. I also know I've been distracted all week the getting to earthwagling the days, and was shopping to sleep, and only catching a couple hours at a time!'

'The letter concludes: 'With the heart, Natalie, the grew upon California. On Wednesday, her

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mother, with whom she is apparently damaged, goes as interview to CNN. He said, 'the about his sister: 'I'd say since she was, like, in, she's had an obsession with, surgery. She did it explain that. Um, she's written, brown in other presidents, let me put it that way.' She said he was returning Chicago W. Bush.

Harp's connection to this president runs deep. She credits him with caring her life. She has said that she children from home cancer and that it was legislature's trying regard to 2018 that provided that access to experimental treatments. She has not publicly decided which treatments.

She was recounting that experience on the News in 2019 when she caught the

president's eye. He invited her to speak at the Republican National Convention in 2023. She spent the next two years repeating his election last as an anchor on the far-right One America News Network. In 2022, she was joined his team.

A 'War Room' stylist documentary filmed James Trump's 2024 campaign, called 'An of the Harp's' provides glimpses of Harp hard at work.

'Within two seven years, thing I liked,' she explains an one score that was filmed at Miss-A-Lago 'But what I was sick, I started watching the Republican debuts. She was my first exposure to politics, and I loved it. Like, this puts her in it.'

The film cuts to Trump

introducing Harp in 2019 at something called the Faith & Freedom Coalition's 'Road to Majority' conference.

'They were preparing her for death,' he says 'Her name is Natalie Harp, and because of 'right to try,' she's now living, and I think doing phenomenally well. And somebody and she's here. Are you here, Natalie? Where's Natalie? Will you come up here please?'

'The woman who walks across the stage to buy him is not yet the full-fledged Trump aide she would not become.

'I had come and he saved my life, signed that bill,' she says in the film, 'and ever since he found out, he travel in touch with me. Made sure I was OK.'

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Envoy: Israel did not give US warning ahead of Syria attack

By Andrew Wilts AUGUSTUS PRESS

ISTANBUL — Israel did not want the United States before it struck an air base in northern Syria last week, despite fears of unaccidents with the U.S. and NATO (all T's) in the U.S. special arrest to Syria said.

Israel usually coordinates its military actions with the U.S. in his October. Wishing too hard to use this influence to moderate attacks as Israel carries out operations in Syria. Since until a dozen.

Tom Barrack, who also serves as a member of T's, said the attack T's has due on the first Friday last could have been Israel 'hating the T's, that was the serious and worrying part.'

However, Israel T's forces in the U.S. had been directed the U.S. envoy's remarks about them being no warning, saying in a statement that Israel decided it's an in-cause member of the Syrian government. 'Simultaneously, we transferred the intelligence reports to the relevant authorities in the U.S. and all others.'

In the wake of the strikes, which caused Israel to become unambled, the office of Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the base

was attacked because Syria was 'on the wisp of breaking' an agreement by allowing Turkish troops to deplete it.

Barrack said it was likely that Israel had intelligence suggesting Turkey may be bolstering its presence at the area and 'a strong, comprehensive in the field made a decision. We're not going to let that happen'. 'What' they didn't do is tell us or Turkey.

He added that another possible reason for the attack on Abu Dufour, around 10 miles east of the Turkish border, was a mid-nineteen hundred-tenths in Israel's military and the country's intelligence agency.

In 2011, Turkey shot down a Russian jet over its Syrian frontier. The ambassador's comments were published on T's, says Friday by Mark Navfal, a Lebanese Australian entrepreneur.

Barrack also said Israel 'will' recognize the Sultan Maghreb's violation of UN resolutions, despite U.S. President Donald Trump's 2019 proclamation recognizing Israel's sovereignty. But the necessary warning decides of US policy.

Katz, the Israeli defense minister, said the strike on the base was authorized after the 'warming wasn't

headed,' adding there were 'the intelligence reports' of Turkey's intention to use the base 'to learn Israel.' He did not provide further detail.

Barrack's comments were 'full of 'inaccurate' and positions that contradicted Trump's position on the UN's strength, the minister added.

Two Syrian officials, who spoke on condition of moments, said Wednesday that a Turkish delegation had visited the air base in the northwestern province of Idlib's day before the air strike to review reconstructions were made over there.

Israel had raised concerns over Turkish military activity at the air base but the U.S. concluded that he was 'not happening.' Barrack said, 'The unintended consequence of a move in said the really conceptual.'

Turkey had been supporting Syria's effort to rebuild the armed forces by training Syrian personnel in supply management and logistical support. The two countries signal an agreement last year that Israel had their military cooperation.

Turkish officials have repeatedly stated that Ankara does not consider Syria's security separate from its own.

Putin acknowledges economic losses from Kyiv's refinery hits

BLOOMBERG NEWS

Vladimir Putin landed on 'human' of his military in stopping up a campaign on Ukrainian regime, calling the strike officials on a timely while acknowledging that no special attacks by Ukraine have caused economic damage.

The Russian president commented in an interview with many TV reporters Pavel Zarebin, columnist Saturday.

It came at Russia and Ukraine.com that the strike strikes on infra-structure facilities, including overnight Ukrainian drone barrages that hit an oil refinery and a warehouse of a major e-commerce company in the Russian region along within Russia.

Ukraine's strikes 'inflict economic damage on our country. The Arab14-based, Putin said, while adding that 'no turning point in the earth-vehicles with Russia could have occurred, nor did it occur.'

The latest exchange come in Ukraine preparers to mark the 20th anniversary of its independence Monday. Like that's also the 4.5-year mark of Russia's invasion of its neighbor.

Members of a so-called Coalition of the Willing—an initiative led by Russia and the U.S.—are to be together in Kyiv on Monday. Russia is ready for negotiations with Ukraine, Putin said, adding that proposals from Kyiv and its supporters are 'unacceptable' and, in some cases, 'waste'.

'We are always open to dialogue about peace, but only on the basis of the resilience of the ground,' he said, 'affirming a long held Russian position.'

On a day that Alexander Novak, Russia's deputy prime minister, received a message to Ukraine supplied right, Ukraine's General Staff and Kyiv's forces struck the Russian F.30C's November, by the attack of refinery in the Samara region.

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It was the latest attack on a further 100 miles from Ukraine's border. Images on social media showed a photo of black smoke following from the refinery.

A logistics center in the same region was also set afloat. Interfax reported, citing Ozon Holdings, Russia's second largest e-commerce company about 500 employees were in the first and some people were injured.

Russia's two Vyschodez Fedorokchev said the region came under a large-scale UAV attack and that Ozon's warehouse was hit. Interfax reported, citing sport on the rafts-run 80m managing platform.

Ukraine have said, but has increasingly targeted Russian warehouses, many of them spatunized the e-commerce plant Wildberries.

More than a dozen facilities from northern Russia to the C's are now boomstruck Wildberries, often called 'Russia's Antunes,' but lost at least 17% of its warehouse capacity, according to Russian media estimates based on export analysis.

Report of U.S. Russia's Defense Ministry said on Telegram that its forces struck a local area, despite it Kyiv's Darynisa district, a logistics center in Norway as the Kyiv region, and warehouses and food outlets at the Ukrainian ports of Chorn-

morsk and Proksmen.

The strike was a budget for degrade the Ukrainian armed forces' ability to defence equipment and immunities to the front lines, Putin said.

Large-scale Russian embauches became a regular occurrence this summer. Moscow's horse have recently intensified their ballistic missile attacks on Kyiv, exploiting Ukraine's offensive attack at US made Patriot an defense atmosphere, Russia's weapon in its arsenal able to shoot down the missiles.

Israeli, Russian drone and missile strikes killed at least seven people in Ukraine, officials said Saturday, while a Ukrainian drone attack on Russia's air force region killed three people there.

The attacks came a day after a Russian strike on a Ukrainian shopping center killed at least 10 people and wounded in more lift.

In a separate attack, local authorities said two people were killed Saturday afternoon in a Russian ballistic missile strike on the Kyiv region, which have made the capital.

In Russia's northern Khrushchev region, authorities said that three people, including the children, were killed and two adults were wounded in a Ukrainian drone strike.

Associated Press certified.

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ONLY TIME WILL TELL

Hidden politics shaped clocks, calendars and now-contentious time zones as culture evolved

By Denzel Hapala | ASSOCIATED PRESS

Flftes. It leads all wounds. It can be of the essence, and it can be money. We thrill in the best of it, lament the worst. We're warned not to waste it, since we can't turn it back — even as we try to make up for when it's lost.

And more than anything when it comes to time, most of us try to manage it — in our everyday lives and unsiglobal scale, from the biology of our circadian rhythms to what constitutes a work day. Clocks. Calendars. Pendulums. Disorganized. Sunduils. Time zones.

For something that has been a universal impulse to mark the shift of light and dark, the movement of the stars and the rhythms of the tales, the cycles of summer heat and winter cold, one might assume there has been a universal way of measuring time. That assumption would be wrong.

Take the shifting of the clock twice a year in most of the United States, once forward and then back again, a system that "moves" the time to let people enjoy daylight hours later into the evening.

While people love the light, a lot of them loathe having to make the change. So much so that the House of Representatives last month overwhelmingly passed legislation calling for the shift to become permanent year-round. Its prospects for passage in the Senate aren't high.

And when the country tried it in the 1970s it was wildly unpopular and short-lived. But it continues to be brought up, an indication that the way we keep the clock counts.

The methods that different peoples and communities have used to track their lives haven't existed in a vacuum. They've been impacted by culture, by religion, by economics and technology, by the governing principles both within nations and among them.

Turns out, like anything where people are involved, there's a politics to time.

MEASUREMENTS OF TIME ARE MADE UP, BUT THEY MATTER

"Every measurement of time is arbitrary," says Elizabeth Cohen, a political science professor at Boston University who has written about how we chronicle time and how it impacts the way people relate to each other. "Every deadline could have been a fraction of a second or a large increment of time different than it was," she says. "None of it is natural."

Take calendars. We use them to give a structure to our lives, but the spectrum of what that has looked like is vast through human existence. Some followed the sun, others the moon and others still a combination of both. Maybe all the months were the same length, maybe first several. What we call a seven-day-work might have had four, or six or some other number of days in other timekeeping systems.

Every today where the main calendar is use globally is what we know as the Gregorian calendar, with its 12 months and very years, other calendars are still consulted for religious or cultural purposes in places from Israel to Thailand.

And daylight saving time? With its connection to our perceptions of what hours of light become available to us, it reflects "a desire for natural time," says Michael O'Malley, professor of history at George Mason University.

People "are outside longer, so they feel it as a connection to nature," he says. "But it only

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makes sense in a society that's completely hypnotized by clocks so you think the clock is time."

CULTURE OF THE CLOCK IS EVOLVING

It's not just about the how. When we think about how culture evolved around time, there's also the why.

For most of human history, there were ties to the rhythms of the natural world: the phases of the moon, the rising and setting of the sun, the 4th and flow of the tales.

And in agricultural societies, the importance of when to plant and when to harvest. Tracking the sun's journey across the sky was a local endeavor. While the idea of a day broken down into 24 equal segments was important to groups like astronomers or seafarers, daily life was broken into "nations that tended to expand and contract based on the time of year and the location," says Kevin Roth, a professor of anthropology at Queens College.

"But since people weren't really traveling back and forth with any great rapidity back

them," he says, "it really didn't matter."

Industrialization — in the form of the Industrial Revolution that started in 18th-century England and spread — pushed people to shift notions of time.

No longer was it about the sun's cycle or the turn of the seasons. Industrial production meant schedules — people paying attention to the clock because they were due for specific shifts.

"It was one of the goals of industrialization so until as people this regular, attaining some of time," O'Malley says.

Contract that is a preindustrial farmer, he says. "But could have an ethic of hard work, but that work is not going to be governed by a clock. It's typically going to be governed by natural man. The clock established his external authority that's not you."

In the United States, by the mid-1970s, another issue arose: time zones. There were more than 40 based around cities, which O'Malley says forced railroad companies to switch dynamically as trains traveled.

Worried that other entities would stan-

dardize the zones and disrupt their businesses, the companies acted. "The American Railway Association got all the American railroads to agree that so. But, in 1985, they would declare a four-zone system in effect in America," O'Malley says. "And they just announced it."

TIME CAN BE A CLOHEIL

It's hardly the only occasion where the perception of time has involved national or global concerns.

Take the Prime Meridian, the entirely made-up longitude line running from the North Pole to the South Pole, that divides Earth into States and Western hemispheres and is used as the basis for global timekeeping as well as navigation.

It runs through Greenwich, England, and was selected at an international conference in 1994. Was that because Greenwich was the ideal place? No, Birth says — it simply was established during "a period when the British Empire was one of the dominant empires in the world."

Time zones themselves "are about politics," he says, pointing out that they are not divided in a standard format. Countries decide their own, and in the U.S., the individual status can decide if they observe daylight having or not.

A prime example is China, which stretches more than 1,000 miles across Asia. It has one official time zone for the country, instituted when the Communist Party took power in 1949 as a form of national unity.

The entire country runs officially on Beijing time, but the reality on the ground when the sun rises in eastern China bears before it rose in western China is people adjust with their own local times for daily life, Birth says.

Time can also be a tool used in a society to manage dissent and protest, Cohen says. She pointed to examples like governments instituting curfews or protesters engaging in slowdowns or strikes.

"Time has a lot of power," she says, "and people are battling over it to try and impose themselves on others or ensure the yoke that has been imposed on them."

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Educators grade chatbots' answers

Schools start to teach AI literacy, highlight tech's errors for kids

By Jocelyn Gecker and Russ Sprum ASSOCIATED PRESS

NORTH CHARLESTON, SC – Artificial intelligence chatbots have become the base of teachers everywhere, but to prepare for the new school year, a group of educators in Charleston, South Carolina, packed into a high school auditorium and talked about inviting AI into the classroom.

The teachers and principals watched as an instructor prompted an AI tool to "create a map of the world."

The result drew gaps. Projected on a screen was a map mailed with errors. Mail was spelled "Mail." Egypt was identified as "Depth." In place of Libya was something called "Africa." Deacon of other countries' names were misspelled or written in phloxink.

"If you ever want kids not to ever trust these tools, try the map demo," said the instructor, Amanda Becker staff. Teachers and CEO of AI For Education, an organization that helps schools draft AI policies and train teachers and students to share the culture, ethical and effective use of the technology.

After initially trying to ban AI use, a growing number of U.S public schools are trying a new strategy: encouraging classroom experimentation, partly as students can see its shortcomings, including generative AI's notorious tendency to "hallucinate," or fabricate information.

AI literacy has become a buzzword of this back-to-school season as educators try to strike a balance between engaging students with the skills they need for an AI-driven future while preventing them from outsourcing their thinking to chatbots.

There is no single definition of what AI literacy

Amanda Bickerstaff, founder and CEO of AI For Education, speaks July 27 at a symposium in North Charleston, South Carolina. MIC 2007WAP

means, or how it should be taught.

Tech giants like OpenAI, Google and Anthropic offer schools training sessions on how to use their AI tools. By far educators, there is a growing consensus that AI literacy is about more than learning how to use generative AI and write good prompts.

"Good AI literacy," said Rebecca Wainberg, director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution, "includes knowing when not to use it."

There seven states have now published official AI guidance that schools can use as a blueprint. South Carolina is not one of them.

As the state's second-largest school district set out to do it on its own, said Lucas Clamp, deputy superintendent of the 90,000-student Charleston County School District. "It has been a huge endeavor."

A year ago, the district contacted AI for Education, which helped draft guidance for Chicago Public Schools, Houston and dozens of other districts.

Phase 1 was laying the foundation. The district developed an AI policy, seeking input from teachers, students and parents.

The district organized student focus groups and learned that student AI use was ubiquitous but unguided. Teachers and students said they were navigating the technology on their own and wanted clear rules and instruction.

Studies show a majority of teenagers and teachers nationwide are using AI for schoolwork, but they're teaching themselves how to use it; few say they have a technical understanding or have received formal training on how it works.

Schools and parents are

super to avoid mistaken made with social media, where kids were left to explore the online world without learning about addictive algorithms, comparison culture and other downsides that have been linked to a youth mental health crisis and demanding attention spans.

As the school year begins in Charleston, Phase 2 kicks in training. Teachers and middle and high schoolers will get a mix of online and in-person instruction on how AI tools work and how to use them effectively.

The student course walks through familiar scenarios – like asking a chatbot to help with a research paper – to show that generative AI might deliver inaccurate information, including made-up studies, with unflunking authority. "Always verify any factual information you get from GenAI, especially for your

classwork," the course advises.

A section on data privacy cautions against sharing personal information with AI tools because conversations can be stored, used for data training and potentially leaked.

High school teacher Ray Knauer attended the summer training and left with "teachable moments" for his AP Research class. He plans to show examples of Airbus and hallucinations to fuel student discussions.

"We're all trying to figure this out right now: What's the right balance so we don't scare students away from AI but don't encourage them to run to it," Knauer said. "We have to teach students. You can't just get an answer and move on. You have to use analytical skills and dig deeper."

Utah was an early pioneer in taking a statewide

approach to AI in education. In 2024, the board of education named Matt Winters as its AI education specialist, making Utah the first state to create a full-time position overseeing the technology in schools.

Over the past year, Winters led AI training for over 5300 teachers, almost a third of Utah's public school instructors. He is helping districts shape AI policies, which they are required by state law to have in place by July 2027.

"There is a clear method from the top in Utah," said Chris Agnew, director of the Generative AI for Education Hub at Stanford University. "When you're tackling big change, it's easier to have coherence if everyone is singing from the same hymn book."

A handful of other states have only used Winters' post, including Georgia, Maine and West Virginia.

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It's the dog days of summer. You're either ready for a vacation or lamenting that it won't be way too fast. It's sunny outside — and you're stuck in the office. It's the formula for an unproductive day. But why spend any more time at your desk than necessary? This should be the time of the year that you strive for productivity. Others are on vacation, most businesses slow down and you should, in theory, have fewer distractions toward getting work done. That's not always the way things work.

Productivity relies on a mindset of wanting to be productive. It means trying focused when it's easy to wander. It isn't necessarily your fault.

The body is designed to strive the things we have in summer — daylight hours, outdoor activities, socializing and lived that's in season. It's no surprise that it's more difficult to stay indoors and get your work done when there are so many compelling alternatives that would make your brain happier.

Take a Vacation

The first thing you can do is become more productive at work in take a break. As Rebecca Zucker writes in the Harvard Business Review, "The cognitive impact when you're overwhelmed with work can include cognitive fatigue, difficulty concentrating, forgetfulness, and negative problems with agility, among several other effects. Taking a vacation provides greater opportunity to test and better sleep (both quantity and quality), which can help enslave your mind to create more mental space."

If you're trying to power through the summer to save your vacation days for later in the year, it may be helpful to take at least some time away from the office to help you recharge.

Get More Exercise

Exercise isn't just good for your health, but it also improves your productivity at work. According to a study by Julian Hopkins University, "Emphysema who are physically active have lower healthcare costs, require less sick leave, and are more productive at work."

Summer is a great time in develop these healthy habits. Take advantage of early morning sunlight to ride your bike or go for a one outside. After work, join a league to meet other people and enjoy your favorite sport.

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It can be intimidating to get started on a big project. Organize your time around each part of a task so it's easier to meet daily goals. You may plan to spend on least a day working on it, so, even better, set a large number of key accomplishments that each take a manageable amount of time. Check them off each day as you accomplish them.

Write Things Down

You may be surprised how much more you get done if you write down what you hope to do in a day. Most everyone understands a to-do list, but try to be as specific as possible with the tasks you want to accomplish. Be realistic with how long each item will take, and hold yourself accountable in the end of the day. If you find that you are consistently failing to complete the list, feel back the items. Make an effort to push yourself but not make the list so impossible that it never gets done.

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How a micro-retreat can recharge you

In a column for the Wall Street Journal, a private writer Elizabeth Sedosta writes about how she takes 24-hour "micro-retreat" to help her take a break from a hectic family schedule and spend some quiet time alone to relieve mental exhaustion and produce creative thinking. She checks into a local hotel by herself and spends the next day working on whatever she thinks she needs the most.

"During my 24-hour retreats, I attended extensive deep creative work and relaxation," she writes. "Somehow, just entering the room and sitting at the desk seems to prime my mind for this kind of deep dive. I reach a point of no return by late afternoon, when I step to relax over dinner, then write or brainstorm for a couple more hours. The next morning, I dive into one that writing session before heading home."

It may not sound like one night from home could make that much of a difference, but Sedosta has found that the time spent alone in a different location can help her achieve a "flow order" of deeper thinking that's hard to achieve in your everyday life.

"On normal days, most of us do a lot of what's called context-switching, 'logging from one unrelated task to another (answering emails, filing reports, testing

meetings),' she writes. "Studies show that we only do we have time amid this constant task-switching, our cognitive recovery get depleted. All percent of workers report that context switching is mentally exhausting."

Taking a micro-retreat eliminates this lack of focus, and insane them, report that it is both "absurding and rewarding." In other words, not only will you get a lot of work done, but you'll come back more refreshed than when you arrived.

Sedosta writes more about the topic and how to create a better life balance in her book, "The Art of Pacing: A Guide to Balancing Short-Term Demands with Long-Term Thinking," which was published in June.

An ideal short break needs to be taken away from both home and office — you need to put yourself in a different environment. A good break room adds a bit of luxury to the mix, making it

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Most visited national parks

National Parks, this most recent destination, are housed during the summer months. According to annual attendance figures from the National Park Service, the most popular months to visit a National Park are July, August and June. These looking to enjoy the natural setting with fewer crowds would do well to plan a stay outside of these months. But visit to the National Park System overall were done by almost 9 million in 2025 (the 4 record high the previous year. This isn't surprising, considering that in 2025 the park deals with a good deal of share from government shutdowns, budget cuts, staffing reductions, a devastating fire at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon and other issues that may make people think twice about a visit.

That said, the National Park System still received more than 325 million visits in 2025, so it remains a very popular way to spend a number. Now are the most visited parks with their location and number of visitors in 2025:

1. Great Smoky Mountain National Park (North Carolina and Tennessee, 11.5 million)

2. Zion National Park (Utah, 4.98 million)

3. Yellowstone National Park (Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, 4.76 million)

4. Grand Canyon National Park (Arizona, 4.43 million)

5. Yonamine National Park (California, 4.2 million)

6. Rocky Mountain National Park (Colorado, 4.1 million)

7. Acadia National Park (Maine, 4 million)

8. Grand Teton National Park (Wyoming, 3.8 million)

9. Olympic National Park (Washington, 3.5 million)

10. Glacier National Park (Montana, 3.1 million)

For these looking for more solitude, Kehak Valley National Park is located above the Santa Circle in Alaska, and received only 7,386 visits in 2025. Also in Alaska, China of the Arctic National Park and Panama (14,012 visits) are in Lake Cook National Park and Preserve (19,779 visits) will give you plenty of elbow room. In the Lower 48, July Bicycle National Park in Michigan (29,893 visits) is located on an island in Lake Superior, accessible only by plane or boat. North Crocodile National Park in Washington (40,925), made up largely of protected wilderness, rounds out the five least visited parks.

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Mulligan and WSCR-AM470 co-host David Haugh were train-

tioning to the midday show with Loila Rabini and Marshall Harris. It sounded like normal end-of-week humor -- a little White Fox talk among the best before a preview of the upcoming show.

But the day would prove to be anything but a wonderful delight for Mulligan, who was fired from the Score at the end of his shift. Harris also was let go after his show in a major restructuring of the station's morning and midday shows.

Naturally, the news quickly

Mulligan

created a stir on social media and the internet, with many glowing tributes to Mulligan or "Molly,"

as he's widely

known -- along

with some angry rhymes about the station's decision and Haugh. Several means contend on the fact Mulligan was not allowed to go out with a final goodbye to his fans, which would've been a nice sentiment but is probably unrealistic in the corporate world, in

which ID cards are deactivated right after you imp off the chorus with your cardboard box of stuff.

Mulligan declined to talk with the Tribune about his experience, so we'll have to wait. But as a veteran journalist, he always can tell his story on Sabreaux, the modern-day clearinghouse for transitioning writers, or wait a while and tell Iron Episode I of a new podcast.

I was best alongside Mulligan years ago when we were young best writers for competing papers and was briefly a baseball correspondent on the "Molly & Hanley

Show" before program director Mitch Rosen realized if in its complete action on the morning, I honestly don't know Mulligan well but always enjoyed our conversations and respected his opinions, even if we disagreed on things, as a couple of my guys from Chicago tend to do.

While sports talk radio isn't as big as it was a couple of decades ago -- like, oh, newspapers -- it still has many local interest. Mulligan served them a study diet of opinions on the Bears. White Fox,

See BULANAN on Page C2

PRESEASON GAME 2 BENGALS 27, BEARS 9

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Bears quarterback Caleb Williams looks to throw during the first quarter of a preseason game against the Bengals on Saturday night at Payco Stadium in Cincinnati. Williams completed 2 of 1 passes for 29 yards on the opening drive, leading the offense downfield to set up a 45-yard Cairo Santos field goal. The Bears went on to lose 27-9. For coverage, including Brad Biggs' 10 Thoughts, go to chicagotribune.com/sports

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CINCINNATI — Kaden Davis has been fighting and driving for a spot on the NFL since 2022.

He has been cut at the end of the preseason each of the last four years. He did a stint in the United States Football League, and this spring he played in the United Football League, the USFL, NFL offspring.

He turns 20 most month and has appeared in three regular season NFL games for the Cleveland Browns, one in 2014 and two last season. The wide receiver has touched the ball four times, all on his half-return.

In terms of players who emerged almost out of nowhere, Davis is the guy this training camp. He has turned in as many big plays downfield as anybody. The battle for a roster spot is challenging. The Bears probably would have to carry six wide receivers on the 53-man roster for him to have a shot.

"I am just trying to focus on where my feet are," Davis said. "I am not trying to look too far ahead. When you do that, you can lose focus."

Davies familiar with the underdog role. He was a zero-star recruit coming out of Ellsworth, Kan., a team of about 2,100 Kansas offered him a chance to walk on. He chose Beefey Community College in El Dorado, Kan., instead and portrayed two seasons there into a shot at Division II Northwest Missouri State.

Since then he has bounced around the league, mostly hiding his time on practice squads. He was cut at the end of the preseason by the Denver Broncos, Arizona Cardinals, Detroit Lions and Browns. Davis felt like he connected with Ben Johnson in 2024, where he spent the spring and training camp, preseason in Detroit. He caught five passes for 96 yards, including a 45-yard touchdown, in the preseason that summer. The Lions waived him.

See BRASS on Page C3

CUBS

Switch-hitting Happ struggling with right-handed swing

Cubs left fielder-tan-Happ stands in the dugout before a game against the Rangers on May 10 in Arlington, Texas. STACY WEVINS/GETTY

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SEATTLE — Cubs left fielder tan-Happ found himself in what has become a familiar position Saturday.

With the Seattle Mariners starting left-hander Keale Anderson for his major-league debut, the switch-hitting Happ wasn't in the Cubs lineup. In his ad, Kevin McNutts to get the start in left while Tyrone Taylor was in right field with Seyss Suzuki filling the designated hitter role. Happ's struggles against leftist have made manager Craig Czumel look at other options.

"He's going to still have right-handed at-bats, that's for sure, so he's going to continue to work out and try to get there within," Czumel

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said Saturday before the Cubs' 5-4 loss. "But right now there's going to be some places where he's, especially against left-handed starters, that will probably go the other direction in the first part of the game."

Lastly, Happ's only at-bats versus left-handers have come in the middle-to-late innings when a lody pitcher is in the game. He's hitting just .229 with a .292 on-base percentage, 521 OFS and 34.8% strikeout rate in 132 plays appearances from the right side this season.

"It's been tough," Happ told the Tribune on Saturday. "Last year I didn't get the results, but the expects-to-were really, really good, and so that poor me some peace that I was doing the right things. I had some good at-bats early in the year right-handed and then it's been tough. Whether it's guys executing their pitches, it's been a lot more of not doing damage on pitches that I know I can."

Since the Cubs acquired Taylor at the trade deadline and Alcimara was recalled from Triple A, Czumel has been opting for either of those right-handed bats rather than getting Happ in the lineup on days they face a left-handed starter.

See HAPP on Page C3

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SKY 73, VALKYRIES TO LATE FRIDAY

Taylor hits winner with 16 seconds left

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Jydney Taylor 3/4 a pull-up 3-pointer with 14 seconds left, and the sky beat the Golden State Valkyrie's TV 70 on Friday night at Winnipeg Arena after squandering a 21-point lead.

The Sky (10-22) won short season-high third straight game. They has seven games left in the regular season and are six games behind the Dallas Wings for the eighth and final playoff spot.

The second-place Valkyrie's (21-12) are a game ahead of the Las Vegas Asia and 3/1 games in front of the Indiana Fever.

The game was interrupted when multiple sets turn were thrown onto the court in the third quarter. It is the second straight night that a WNBA game was halted for the same season. Deering Atlanta's 124-88 win over the Sparks on Thursday night in Los Angeles, the game was stopped when a sex toy was turned onto the court.

Kathleen Chen made a 3-pointer and layup their game and went to 70-67 lead with 46.4 seconds left. Taylor tied it with a straightaway 3 about 12 seconds later, and Chen scored a 28-point over up the winner's Taylor deMold down the clock and hit a side step 5-pointer over Veronica Barron.

Natalia Cloud went 5 of 5 from 2-point range and led the Sky with 17 points. Kandle Gordon had 14 points and 10 rebounds and Taylor dies scored 14.

Laetia Ambaro scored a cancer-high 36 points on 7-6/7 shooting. Amelia Brown added 12 points and Tiffany Hayes 10. Barron, the only Valkyrie starter to reach Andria figures, scored 11.

The Valkyrie/Galley Williams left the game about 3/3 minutes into the second half and did not return. The All-Star finished with two points on 0-for-6 shooting in 14 minutes.

The Sky play host to the Fever on Sunday at Winnipeg Arena.

The guard Sydney Taylor night, celebrated with Azurik Ildonen after hitting a game-winning 3-pointer with 14 seconds left against the Valkyrie on Friday at Winnipeg Arena. MICHAEL REAVES/GETTY

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Game interrupted after sex toys thrown on court

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The Sky's home game against the Golden State Valkyrie on Friday night was interrupted when multiple sets turn were thrown onto the Winnipeg Arena court, the second consecutive night for a 20-point increase in what occurred in several WNBA games last season.

The incident happened in the third quarter of the Sky's 73-73 victory over the Valkyrie. Players stayed on the court while arena

personnel removed the items from the court.

According to the New York Times, there was a delay for the same reason in Atlanta's 124-88 victory at the Los Angeles Sparks on Thursday. Police in Los Angeles and a male suspect was detained by arena security, received a citation and was released.

There were other incidents last season in Chicago, Atlanta, New York and Los Angeles. Some of the incidents resulted in arrests.

Bears wide receiver Kaden Davis is tackled on a good return in the fourth quarter against the Browns at Golden Field on Aug. 15. JOHN J. KIM/CHICAGO TRIBUNE

BIGGS

From Page C1

When the Browns cleaned out their coaching staff at the end of last season, Davis told his agent he'd like to get a shot with the Bears.

"You know what kind of skill we'd had and what type of player I can," Davis said. "He knew how to use me. I know I didn't end up sticking them, but I thought things went good when I was at Detroit."

A chance to impress Johnson didn't materialize right away. Davis had a workout with the Tennessee Titans. They were one of a handful of teams that told him he probably could know. By from some game tape in the CFL, as he was dealing with shoulder and hip injuries with the Browns back in January, he midway through the CFL season, he signed with the Houston Gamblers and appeared in five games for them.

The Bears signed him in mid-June, and how he is putting up numbers in the preseason again. Davis had four catches for 49 yards in the operate against the Browns.

"He continues to produce with the opportunities he's been

dying," offending coordinator Prent Taylor said. "You've got to put some set-ups. He had a continued catch on the sideline over Bears (last week). He had a couple other plans. He put shot of good things on tape and he's continued to do that."

"So that's really all you can ask for from these guys. They make the most of their opportunities and he's continued to do that. And that's why you use more and more opportunities at his way."

Davis, who has excellent straight-line speed, had some familiarity with the plan back when he arrived in the CFL after the end of the 1st season. That allowed him to play fast without having to think too much.

He went low to more smooth down and from Caleb Williams during the joint practice Thursday. He has received enough rope with the first team since camp started in, and the quarterback's attention.

"He's made plans for us as far, whether it's in practice or in the game," Williams said. "He's been explained. He's been fun to watch, and I've excited for him to keep growing and keep working."

This is the opportunity Davis was chasing when he decided in the spring to book on with the Grandson in the CFL, in which he said players make 86,000 a week

"if they are playing."

"You've got to love the game," Davis said. "Luckily, I live in Dallas."

He and his wife, Chrysene, have two kids, 2/3, and 6 months. His wife and kids spent a good chunk of training camp in the area, coming to practice to support him. He'll even learn where he stands with the Bears. The preseason finish is Saturday at 7:00 a.m. No more time reduce their outers to 6:59: 5 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 30.

There's perhaps a tiny opening for writers which gather Burden. [It is explained with a good injury. But the Bears have better depth at the position than they have enjoyed in a long time with Bruce O'Mara, Add McConnell, rookie Darren Thomas - who impressed Thursday - and Jackie Walker, one of the stars of last summer.

Add to Maurice Alexander, who was also at Detroit previously, veteran Scott Miller and even W. Richardson, who was on the practice squad last season after Johnson took a liking to him, and there's no shortage of devices.

"There's a quote in the team room here that says, 'Bull'sy hard work, it's not to be hooked,'" Davis said. "That's the motto for me."

SULLIVAN

from Page C1

Cale and Mulls over the years "Great stuff" we hit in matrix after an interview, whether it was great or not.

Mulligan had been a co-host on the morning show since 2008, originally teaming with former Sam Tyson of Bogue Brian Hanley, who was 16 go in 2010 and replaced by Haugh, who wrote the Tribune's "In the Wake of the Never" column I inherited in 2020.

Morning show time to the most important show for any season, and the Score is to be used as a subject to the WNFP-ASI 100/5's "Kay & 2 Head Show" (or footnote) "The WNFP-ASI 100/5's" is a 2nd round. The "Mulls and Haugh Show" has been WNFP as the ratings for quite some time, and there was no outward indication the status was assigned with Mulligan's performance.

Score offers for short 3 1/2 seconds' guess, but the end result was someone wanted change.

Bears wrote it was a "difficult" decision but did not give a reason for the dismissal in a series to outline, which ended with "I know they will be questions, and I understand that."

There were questions. Room was unavailable for comment Saturday. He told staffers a new host would be announced Monday, which led to speculation former WON-CH, 9 queens since Janett Payton, who recently left the station, was on his way to joining Haugh for a Bears country putting Haugh was a Bears host writer at the Tribune before becoming a columnist, and Payton is the one of Bears great Walter Payton.

Bears has mixed and switched his radio personalities often, sometimes after being forced to make changes, like after firing popular hosts Dan McNeil and Dan Bartender for that highly publicized social media implosions. It could be a case of fleeing Bears, creating a new, dramatic adjustment.

WNFP has featured much in the same roster for several years, but radio is typically a business in which personalities are invited to rent, not own. And the faculty of big salaries is over, with paid caring growing every year and taking listeners away.

Haugh, who also is a co-host of Chicago Sports Network shows two numerous to mention, was on vacation and unavailable for comment. Several guests will co-host the score to be exhended

morning show this week, including regular Gabe Business and Burba-Frishnik.

A offer to the Score's "Inside the Clubhouse" show Saturday gave Mulligan a showtext, which served as a de facto announcement of the news on the station's airwaves.

Here's a spectacular at WLS-CH, 7, had been with the Score for only a couple of years, so his firing was not quite as surprising. There was no one who does is usually one too many, as Kathleen and Mark Gross will continue as co-hosts of the aptly renamed "Raham & Gross Show."

Mulligan's future in radio is uncertain. He's certainly popular enough to head a good act, as here is one, and after being fired last year, over twenty male while arguing with a follower on X. He seems happy in podcasting, as does Jason Goff since CNNM let him go last year as thầy shuffles best.

Or perhaps Mulligan can now sleep in and relax in retirement after a long, successful career in newspapers and radio. The best thing about being fired in the social media era is getting to read all the nice things people can shoot you in comments under the tweet on your firing.

Sports radio personalities form

a head with listeners that sports writers at newspapers and social, with our readers. The late Los Gofeteros away! the best voice in radio and ended up on the insights at the Score. But the team's local legend focuses often less of following -- and the Lee Elle tape -- and is still called about in press boxes around town.

Even the best sports radio personalities have it all: an end at any time, and like Mulligan, are usually grateful for the chance to see the score Chicago time tuned into over the years.

These war plenty to talk about Jordan, Payton, Delta, Sandberg, Xray and Town's. The Big Start and Other. Rizzy.

How facts can you review for? Many of Mulligan's listeners are understandably upset and have declared they will never listen to the Score again, just as some de-closed after the deciding departure of Mr Neil, Bernstein and Mike North. But the Score will survive, and always has People will always want to talk. Bear is in the winter, Cale and Son in the summer and Bears stadium nonsense your sound.

While Mull's is officially gone, let's hope the Score also makes more often changes for a better listener experience.

As a longtime listener since the early years of North, Terry Bears, Hanley, Doug Buffone and Ed O'Brady will be a favorite feature. Ed is concerned the following seven faces.

1. The most local guests instead of national "nudacy experts" who reach any district one following or stadiums but comment on the state of our team like they live here.

2. Lee Craig Caudell: The Cale manager sounds like he's only doing his weekly interview at grapestry.

3. Stop going Cale business president Carter Kramer and Son vice president Brooks Byron's plan. Sam, Lee, the only one at the executive in America on sports history has received many publicity on sports radio their three two.

4. Cut down on the gambling hall. Not everyone has a lot on the game or cares about the odds of someone hitting a home run.

5. Open the photo lines more often while weeding out the same callers.

6. Stop calling the mayor of Hammond until a stadium deals down.

7. And try all means but these interesting "Care for Kids" commercials.

8. Firing up now and listen for your answer.

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Montgomery looks to be breaking out of a slump

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The White Sox was held to me hit in a 10-foot to the others throes and the road to the offense didn't get me to going through the innings Friday against the New York Mets.

Things changed – and quickly in the sixth mating or the first diagnosis these didn't be natural offense. And designated bitter Colson Montgomery was in the first.

Muzetakis Murakami reached me a one-out walk. Then came the fireworks.

Miguel Vargas homered to left field on a 15-monger against Mets starter from Marias. Randal Gotchall said Mets is to back home runs with a 400-bandlearm center field on a 11-ballad.

Montgomery was up next. After watching the two home runs, he said he didn't alter his approach.

'It's the same thing – I'm not really thinking to to the chomever's or anything like that,' Montgomery said after Friday's game. 'You had pressure to because they go back to back. The fans are getting shorter, and they're too optimistic where you can definitely get out of your plan and your approach.'

'I just met a white man that tried to hit the side more 10-foot. It was getting shorter, and there so I'm calming myself down.'

Montgomery hit an 0.4 under-over the right field well for his 25th home run of the season.

'The first string (of the at-ball), I thought we a rough good swing

and it was a tough pitch,' Montgomery said. 'I felt like if he threw it anywhere similar I wasn't going to make.'

'I felt like I had pretty good at-bars the whole night, good swings.'

The Sox finalists took four home runs in the 4-4 story. Can I do a longer ended the game by hitting a two-run home run with two outs in the ninth.

Friday marked the second time the Sox hit three home runs in a row during a game this season. Murakami Vargas and Montgomery did it April 23 against the Arizona Diamondback at Class F-16.

Overall, the Sox were second in the American League in home runs (2/5) and dogging percentage (.409) coming into the field.

'It's kind of been our motto, I guess you could say, we are up there trying to drag, we're up there trying to get the ball in play and trying to hit the ball back,' Montgomery said.

Montgomery went 3-for-3 with a key walk in the ninth mating Friday. While he is hitting .209 runs in the All-Star break, Montgomery has been trending to go at the time on of late – going 8-for-21 (.382) with the home run and four fifth in his last six games running laterally.

'I know that he had pretty odd stretch from where he wasn't looking at his foot and doing some of the things we've used to seeing him do, but I feel like he has not said the corner the last week or so, we've seen him take some really good swings,' manager Will Vendle and before Saturday's game. 'He's been

hitting the ball hard, making good swing decisions. So nice to see him continue to play well.'

Montgomery wants to contribute one-way he can.

The one of these things where a series or a game can kind of get you going,' Montgomery said. 'I think the Cubs, that whole series, it was like played baseball, really if you will. So it's like you are up there and trying to do whatever you can to say.'

'That's what helped me and then led me one (Friday). Seeing the ball well. Everyone else is feeling good, I feel like we're just going to stop going.'

TOWNSHIPETTE SHOT DOWN

The Sox announced that 2026 No. 1 pick Rock Chelsevsky, who had been dealing with right wrist soreness, will not retour the the rest of the season. The seasons also refer for 2025 first-round pick Billy Carlsen, who is recovering from a side infection in his left leg.

Cholsevsky went 4-for-3 in (.367) with one home run, 10 fifths, seven walks and three stakes have in nine games for High & Winston-Salem. The shortning turn played Aug. 15.

Carlsen, the No. 20 pick in the 2025 draft, hit 246 with 13 double and 20 fifths in 37 games for Class A Kannapolis. The shortning is 60 games was Aug. 5.

Cholsevsky is rated as the top prospect in the Sox system, according to MLB.com. MLB.com ranks Carlsen as the No. 1 prospect. The seasons for Winston-Salem and Kannapolis setup up Sept. 6.

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Boyd allows big HR, called for costly back

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SEATTLE – Spotted a three-run lead before he had thrown a pitch Friday night, the cashier the Cubs offense supplied Matthew Boyd should have been enough to keep the Mariners in check.

Pete Crow-Armenteny, went deep off Mariners starter Emerson, who took on the ninth pitch of the at-ball he hit third-leadiff home in his last four games and set a seven-high with his 32nd long ball. Alex Bergman added not with a two-run blast, and the Cubs got off to a fast start.

Boyd, though, has struggled to keep the ball in the pick claim. The veteran second end only was the first time to get the game, and he began his played out much differently. Boyd handed back the lead nearly immediately. Cal Joseph delivered the highline with a game tying three-run home run in the second mating, following the Nevada News and a 5-year-old 289 single-down batten later, and 6-6 a semi-swanked ball, called for the manager Craig Counsel being elected.

The Cubs came back to tie the game late behind a whole time runs from last Happ and Bergman in the eighth and ninth mating, respectively. But Ryan Zeferzahn couldn't have a time frame in extra. The Mariners walked them off on Las Rivas two-out single to center field to hand the Cubs a 4-0 line in 10 innings.

The Cubs(76-55) finished enough a hole with no more in scoring position and left 11 on base. They had won 13 on eight when hitting food home runs on one in a game.

Boyd's first pitch high, funded to Joseph didn't feel the Mariners can be a gentle-hixtomatoer struggle this year. The switch hitting Joseph came into the game hitting 140 with a 272 dogging percentage versus left to the rest.

'Went to go and Cal and he was really 'best' and I 'tho' came on the homer. Hunters up in the run generally tend to be good off of loss and he had a good game plan. Hats off to beat.'

The Mariners home runs Boyd has been giving up lately are cross-

ing blomishes among his otherwise good stuff. 'Through four August starts, Boyd has been tugged for eight home runs – including two three-rushrooms and three two-run homers – while walking nine and striking one and 2 runs.

'These are big pitches, and they got a big number on the board, and those are tough to come back from.' Counsel said. 'You don't win these games we can't win, so that was one of the most of the game. He pitched well. He made a bad pitch, and he paid for it.'

Boyd's pickoff more has been a weapon for the lefty the last two years.

He has received four this season after his 11-pickoff last year set a four-time record and went the most of the season. He was a 2-0 line with the club ball in 2012. A three-day error by shortning this: Hunters to open the fifth ball Boyd keeping an eye on the base causes, Boyd, Roldán Boyd made his triple of pickoff move toward first, with Roldán was co-edly made to win the 2-0 line, and the two-pitch umpire Bronson Miller called a ball on Boyd, sending Roldán to second best.

Davenportan added extra absence Roldán to third, and the rest before Randy Sorensen, down him in with a red single to center to return 0.8 for one of the 6-5. Boyd called the ball rolling 'softensively.'

'He thought that I was going to the plate,' Boyd said. 'It's the same move. I'm down. First time that move's been called a bulk date 2019 when I tried. So, West called it from third base. I mean, are run can make a difference in again.'

Counsel remained there until by the bulk off after the mating ended. As Boyd, home both Miller won the Cubs degree for further explanation, Counsel, who moved 10 on Friday, got to see the first 6th time this year, trying his most spectrum in a single season during the 11-year management.

'It hasn't been called a bulk, and he hasn't been called for a bulk in seven years, one where it wasn't a pickoff move,' Counsel said. 'It's a situation where the stopper got field and made up a call to man he got home in the next 10th time. So often umpire's calling that a bulk.'

Cubs starter Matthew Boyd's called for a back by umpire Bronson Miller in the fifth mating against the Mariners at 7. 'Weldin' has on Friday in Seattle. STEPH CHAMBERS/GETTY

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Rogers hit a 2-0 walk off HR

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Jake Rogers couldn't remember the trip around the bases.

'I finished one,' the Chicago White Sox catcher said.

Rogers ended a night filled with long balls by hitting a two-run walk-off home run with two outs in the ninth mating Friday night to lift the Sox to a 4-0 victory against the New York Mets in front of 11,199 at their Field.

'It's just super awesome. But we have to do no such big moment. It's been a long time, since the minor leagues, that come, things like that had happened. And to do it on such a stage like that is the first time to get the game incredible feeling and I wish I could berth it up.'

It was the fourth home run of the game for the Sox. The first three came in a row during the ninth mating as the Sox fought that way back from a 4-0 debut.

Miguel Vargas was the last up with a two-run blast off Mets starter from Marias. Randal Gotchall then made 0 back to back home runs. And Colson Montgomery made it three in a row.

The Sox pulled even with the Mets thanks to the back-to-back blunt. It remained that way and the ninth, when Rogers provided the fifth walk-off of the season for the Sox – and the first walk-off home run of his major-league year.

Another special night at the Rats' manager Will Vendle said. It was all before only in a game that began after a 20-minute weather effect.

The Mets caught a break during

Browns and at the end of an winter can catcher Jack Rogers' errors after hitting a two-run walk-off home run with two outs in the ninth mating against the Mets in Friday at their Field. CHRIS LINDSA/CHICAGO TRIBUNE

a two-run fourth mating.

Bremns Doyle couldn't initially locate a 20 ball to center hit by homes but confident Jack Robert Jr. Doyle spotted the ball late but couldn't make a diving, catch. Robert called his when he saw a double, giving the Mets runners no second and third with one out.

Bury followed with a two-run double to right. So. Richard homered with two-ents in the fifth mating against Sox starter from Rank, making it 4-0.

'I felt good tough,' said Rank, who allowed four runs on seven hits with four strikeouts and six walks in an average. 'Kind of a single of things that didn't really bounce my way. I think if I could get one putt back, it's would be the cutter to Bury. I just felt down the middle.'

The Sox shrew hard some of their power in the sixth against Marias. It was the second time this season the team hit three home runs in a row with Murasha's Murakami, Vargas and Montgoni-

ary accomplishing the feat on April 25 at Arizona.

Start guys locked in.' Vendle said of the three consecutive home runs Friday. 'The way that I Thoroughs went, just had of the full-time first run and needed to score a run to get going.'

'The score was still tied at it in the ninth mating. Montgomery had off with a walk against reliever John Yat and was lifted for pitch runner Braden Montgomery. I both moved him to second on a start, and he went to third on a groundball.'

That brought up Rogers, who is with his fourth runs since Lee July after being blamed off reference to Aug. 15 from the Postford Red Sox.

'I'm just hoping he grooves it to there, really,' Rogers said. 'He throws back, I saw him the power on at best coming up to it and I knew he was throwing his 99 (right), so I knew he was probably going to try to trust his stuff and I just kind of said out for it and he threw it right in the loop and it went a long way.'

HAPP

From Page 11

That obviously limits Happ's opportunities to get right in-game versus bitter.

'I'm still working on stuff, but where may get the Internet at that end where you do get the opportunity and at doesn't work on, you might have to do a Happ said. 'I hit 0-0 back right-handed at 9 or for a week and you do it again and if that doesn't work then try something else. It's a challenge offering a much bitter. That at 9 or 10 isn't really consistent from the right side, so you're trying to make trouble on the 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286, 287, 288, 289, 290, 291, 292, 293, 294, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 300, 301, 302, 303, 304, 305, 306, 307, 308, 309, 310, 311, 312, 313, 314, 315, 316, 317, 318, 319, 320, 321, 322, 323, 324, 325, 326, 327, 328, 329, 330, 331, 332, 333, 334, 335, 336, 337, 338, 339, 340, 341, 342, 343, 344, 345, 346, 347, 348, 349, 350, 351, 352, 353, 354, 355, 356, 357, 358, 359, 360, 361, 362, 363, 364, 365, 366, 367, 368, 369, 370, 371, 372, 373, 374, 375, 376, 377, 378, 379, 380, 381, 382, 383, 384, 385, 386, 387, 388, 389, 390, 391, 392, 393, 394, 395, 396, 397, 398, 399, 400, 401, 402, 403, 404, 405, 406, 407, 408, 409, 410, 411, 412, 413, 414, 415, 416, 417, 418, 419, 420, 421, 422, 423, 424, 425, 426, 427, 428, 429, 430, 431, 432, 433, 434, 435, 436, 437, 438, 439, 440, 441, 442, 443, 444, 445, 446, 447, 448, 449, 450, 451, 452, 453, 454, 455, 456, 457, 458, 459, 460, 461, 462, 463, 464, 465, 466, 467, 468, 469, 470, 471, 472, 473, 474, 475, 476, 477, 478, 479, 480, 481, 482, 483, 484, 485, 486, 487, 488, 489, 490, 491, 492, 493, 494, 495, 496, 497, 498, 499, 500, 501, 502, 503, 504, 505, 506, 507, 508, 509, 510, 511, 512, 513, 514, 515, 516, 517, 518, 519, 520, 521, 522, 523, 524, 525, 526, 527, 528, 529, 530, 531, 532, 533, 534, 535, 536, 537, 538, 539, 540, 541, 542, 543, 544, 545, 546, 547, 548, 549, 550, 551, 552, 553, 554, 555, 556, 557, 558, 559, 560, 561, 562, 563, 564, 565, 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 571, 572, 573, 574, 575, 576, 577, 578, 579, 580, 581, 582, 583, 584, 585, 586, 587, 588, 589, 590, 591, 592, 593, 594, 595, 596, 597, 598, 599, 600, 601, 602, 603, 604, 605, 606, 607, 608, 609, 610, 611, 612, 613, 614, 615, 616, 617, 618, 619, 620, 621, 622, 623, 624, 625, 626, 627, 628, 629, 630, 631, 632, 633, 634, 635, 636, 637, 638, 639, 640, 641, 642, 643, 644, 645, 646, 647, 648, 649, 650, 651, 652, 653, 654, 655, 656, 657, 658, 659, 660, 661, 662, 663, 664, 665, 666, 667, 668, 669, 670, 671, 672, 673, 674, 675, 676, 677, 678, 679, 680, 681, 682, 683, 684, 685, 686, 687, 688, 689, 690, 691, 692, 693, 694, 695, 696, 697, 698, 699, 700, 701, 702, 703, 704, 705, 706, 707, 708, 709, 710, 711, 712, 713, 714, 715, 716, 717, 718, 719, 720, 721, 722, 723, 724, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736, 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 746, 747, 748, 749, 750, 751, 752, 753, 754, 755, 756, 757, 758, 759, 760, 761, 762, 763, 764, 765, 766, 767, 768, 769, 770, 771, 772, 773, 774, 775, 776, 777, 778, 779, 780, 781, 782, 783, 784, 785, 786, 787, 788, 789, 790, 791, 792, 793, 794, 795, 796, 797, 798, 799, 800, 801, 802, 803, 804, 805, 806, 807, 808, 809, 810, 811, 812, 813, 814, 815, 816, 817, 818, 819, 820, 821, 822, 823, 824, 825, 826, 827, 828, 829, 830, 831, 832, 833, 834, 835, 836, 837, 838, 839, 840, 841, 842, 843, 844, 845, 846, 847, 848, 849, 850, 851, 852, 853, 854, 855, 856, 857, 858, 859, 860, 861, 862, 863, 864, 865, 866, 867, 868, 869, 870, 871, 872, 873, 874, 875, 876, 877, 878, 879, 880, 881, 882, 883, 884, 885, 886, 887, 888, 889, 890, 891, 892, 893, 894, 895, 896, 897, 898, 899, 900, 901, 902, 903, 904, 905, 906, 907, 908, 909, 910, 911, 912, 913, 914, 915, 916, 917, 918, 919, 920, 921, 922, 923, 924, 925, 926, 927, 928, 929, 930, 931, 932, 933, 934, 935, 936, 937, 938, 939, 940, 941, 942, 943, 944, 945, 946, 947, 948, 949, 950, 951, 952, 953, 954, 955, 956, 957, 958, 959, 960, 961, 962, 963, 964, 965, 966, 967, 968, 969, 970, 971, 972, 973, 974, 975, 976, 977, 978, 979, 980, 981, 982, 983, 984, 985, 986, 987, 988, 989, 990, 991, 992, 993, 994, 995, 996, 997, 998, 999, 1000

HAPP

From Page 11

'I'm still working on stuff, but where may get the Internet at that end where you do get the opportunity and at doesn't work on, you might have to do in Happ said. 'I hit 0-0 back right-handed at 9 or for a week and you do it again and if that doesn't work then try something else. It's a challenge offering a much bitter. That at 9 or 10 isn't really consistent from the right side, so you're trying to make trouble on the 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286, 287, 288, 289, 290, 291, 292, 293, 294, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 300, 301, 302, 303, 304, 305, 306, 307, 308, 309, 310, 311, 312, 313, 314, 315, 316, 317, 318, 319, 320, 321, 322, 323, 324, 325, 326, 327, 328, 329, 330, 331, 332, 333, 334, 335, 336, 337, 338, 339, 340, 341, 342, 343, 344, 345, 346, 347, 348, 349, 350, 351, 352, 353, 354, 355, 356, 357, 358, 359, 360, 361, 362, 363, 364, 365, 366, 367, 368, 369, 370, 371, 372, 373, 374, 375, 376, 377, 378, 379, 380, 381, 382, 383, 384, 385, 386, 387, 388, 389, 390, 391, 392, 393, 394, 395, 396, 397, 398, 399, 400, 401, 402, 403, 404, 405, 406, 407, 408, 409, 410, 411, 412, 413, 414, 415, 416, 417, 418, 419, 420, 421, 422, 423, 424, 425, 426, 427, 428, 429, 430, 431, 432, 433, 434, 435, 436, 437, 438, 439, 440, 441, 442, 443, 444, 445, 446, 447, 448, 449, 450, 451, 452, 453, 454, 455, 456, 457, 458, 459, 460, 461, 462, 463, 464, 465, 466, 467, 468, 469, 470, 471, 472, 473, 474, 475, 476, 477, 478, 479, 480, 481, 482, 483, 484, 485, 486, 487, 488, 489, 490, 491, 492, 493, 494, 495, 496, 497, 498, 499, 500, 501, 502, 503, 504, 505, 506, 507, 508, 509, 510, 511, 512, 513, 514, 515, 516, 517, 518, 519, 520, 521, 522, 523, 524, 525, 526, 527, 528, 529, 530, 531, 532, 533, 534, 535, 536, 537, 538, 539, 540, 541, 542, 543, 544, 545, 546, 547, 548, 549, 550, 551, 552, 553, 554, 555, 556, 557, 558, 559, 560, 561, 562, 563, 564, 565, 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 571, 572, 573, 574, 575, 576, 577, 578, 579, 580, 581, 582, 583, 584, 585, 586, 587, 588, 589, 590, 591, 592, 593, 594, 595, 596, 597, 598, 599, 600, 601, 602, 603, 604, 605, 606, 607, 608, 609, 610, 611, 612, 613, 614, 615, 616, 617, 618, 619, 620, 621, 622, 623, 624, 625, 626, 627, 628, 629, 630, 631, 632, 633, 634, 635, 636, 637, 638, 639, 640, 641, 642, 643, 644, 645, 646, 647, 648, 649, 650, 651, 652, 653, 654, 655, 656, 657, 658, 659, 660, 661, 662, 663, 664, 665, 666, 667, 668, 669, 670, 671, 672, 673, 674, 675, 676, 677, 678, 679, 680, 681, 682, 683, 684, 685, 686, 687, 688, 689, 690, 691, 692, 693, 694, 695, 696, 697, 698, 699, 700, 701, 702, 703, 704, 705, 706, 707, 708, 709, 710, 711, 712, 713, 714, 715, 716, 717, 718, 719, 720, 721, 722, 723, 724, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736, 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 746, 747, 748, 749, 750, 751, 752, 753, 754, 755, 756, 757, 758, 759, 760, 761, 762, 763, 764, 765, 766, 767, 768, 769, 770, 771, 772, 773, 774, 775, 776, 777, 778, 779, 780, 781, 782, 783, 784, 785, 786, 787, 788, 789, 790, 791, 792, 793, 794, 795, 796, 797, 798, 799, 800, 801, 802, 803, 804, 805, 806, 807, 808, 809, 810, 811, 812, 813, 814, 815, 816, 817, 818, 819, 820, 821, 822, 823, 824, 825, 826, 827, 828, 829, 830, 831, 832, 833, 834, 835, 836, 837, 838, 839, 840, 841, 842, 843, 844, 845, 846, 847, 848, 849, 850, 851, 852, 853, 854, 855, 856, 857, 858, 859, 860, 861, 862, 863, 864, 865, 866, 867, 868, 869, 870, 871, 872, 873, 874, 875, 876, 877, 878, 879, 880, 881, 882, 883, 884, 885, 886, 887, 888, 889, 890, 891, 892, 893, 894, 895, 896, 897, 898, 899, 900, 901, 902, 903, 904, 905, 906, 907, 908, 909, 910, 911, 912, 913, 914, 915, 916, 917, 918, 919, 920, 921, 922, 923, 924, 925, 926, 927, 928, 929, 930, 931, 932, 933, 934, 935, 936, 937, 938, 939, 940, 941, 942, 943, 944, 945, 946, 947, 948, 949, 950, 951, 952, 953, 954, 955, 956, 957, 958, 959, 960, 961, 962, 963, 964, 965, 966, 967, 968, 969, 970, 971, 972, 973, 974, 975, 976, 977, 978, 979, 980, 981, 982, 983, 984, 985, 986, 987, 988, 989, 990, 991, 992, 993, 994, 995, 996, 997, 998, 999, 1000

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4. Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Sunday August 23, 2026

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BASEBALL

AMERICAN LEAGUE

CANT AVERAGE

	W	L	PHI	KB	WKSB	LOI	DI	ROAM	ZAPU
Toronto Bay	76	0	0	0	0	0	1.5	0.1	0.1
New York	76	0	0	0	+0.1	0	1.5	0.1	0.1
Boston	69	30	100	15	45	0.5	N/A	10.02	37.07
Toronto	64	67	100	25	0	4.5	N/A	10.02	37.07
Montreal	64	67	100	17%	0	4.5	N/A	10.02	37.07
CENTRAL AVERAGE
	W	L	PHI	KB	WKSB	LOI	DI	ROAM	ZAPU
Chicago	62	0	0	0	0	0	1.5	0.1	0.1
Cleveland	62	0	0	0	0	0	1.5	0.1	0.1
Minneapolis	62	0	0	0	0	0	1.5	0.1	0.1
Portland	62	0	0	0	0	0	1.5	0.1	0.1
Kansas City	62	0	0	0	0	0	1.5	0.1	0.1
WEST AVERAGE
	W	L	PHI	KB	WKSB	LOI	DI	ROAM	ZAPU
Houston	62	0.4	0.4	0	0	0.2	N/A	10.02	29.42
Miami	64	0.5	0.5	0	0	0.2	N/A	10.02	29.42
Los Angeles	62	0.4	0.4	0	0	0.2	N/A	10.02	29.42
Alabama	60	0.6	0.6	0	1.0	0.2	1.5	0.4	0.4

NATIONAL LEAGUE

CANT AVERAGE

	W	L	PHI	KB	WKSB	LOI	DI	ROAM	ZAPU
Atlanta	76	0	0	0	0	0	1.5	0.1	0.1
Philadelphia	76	0	0	0	+0.1	0	1.5	0.1	0.1
Miami	64	64	100	0	0%	0.5	N/A	10.02	29.42
Washington	64	64	100	0	0%	0.5	N/A	10.02	29.42
New York	64	64	100	0	0%	0.5	N/A	10.02	29.42
CENTRAL AVERAGE
	W	L	PHI	KB	WKSB	LOI	DI	ROAM	ZAPU
Milwaukee	64	0.4	0.4	0	0	0	1.5	N/A	10.02
Chicago	64	0.5	0.5	0	+0.1	0	1.5	0.1	0.1
St. Louis	64	0.5	0.5	0	+0.1	0	1.5	0.1	0.1
Pittsburgh	64	0.5	0.5	0	0%	0.5	N/A	10.02	29.42
Cincinnati	62	0.6	0.6	0	0%	0	1.5	0.1	0.1
WEST AVERAGE
	W	L	PHI	KB	WKSB	LOI	DI	ROAM	ZAPU
Los Angeles	78	0	0	0	0	0	1.5	N/A	10.02
San Diego	64	0.5	0.5	0	0	0	1.5	N/A	10.02
St. Louis	64	0.5	0.5	0	0%	0	1.5	N/A	10.02
San Francisco	62	0.5	0.5	0	0%	0	1.5	N/A	10.02
San Francisco	62	0.5	0.5	0	0%	0	1.5	N/A	10.02

BOX SCORES

Blast days & Numbers 1
Toronto	64	0	0	0	0
Alabama	72.7	0	0	0	0
Alabama	72.7	0	0	0	0
Montreal	72.7	0	0	0	0
Montreal	72.7	0	0	0	0
Oklahoma	72.7	0	0	0	0
Oklahoma	72.7	0	0	0	0
Oklahoma	72.7	0	0	0	0
Oklahoma	72.7	0	0	0	0
Oklahoma	72.7	0	0	0	0
Oklahoma	72.7	0	0	0	0
Oklahoma	72.7	0	0	0

Blast Days
Chicago	62	0	0	0	0
Cincinnati	62	0	0	0	0
Cleveland	62	0	0	0	0
Miami	62	0	0	0	0
Houston	62	0	0	0	0
Miami	62	0	0	0	0
San Diego	62	0	0	0	0
St. Louis	62	0	0	0	0
St. Louis	62	0	0	0	0
St. Louis	62	0	0	0	0
St. Louis	62	0	0	0	0
St. Louis	62	0	0	0	0
St. Louis	62	0	0	0	0
St. Louis	62	0	0	0

1	2	3	4	5	6
1	2	3	4	5	6
1	2	3	4	5	6
1	2	3	4	5	6
1	2	3	4	5	6
1	2	3	4	5	6
1	2	3	4	5	6
1	2	3	4	5	6

2	3	4	5	6	7
2	3	4	5	6	7
2	3	4	5	6	7
2	3	4	5	6	7
2	3	4	5	6	7
2	3	4	5	6	7
2	3	4	5	6	7
2	3	4	5	6	7
2	3	4	5	6	7

Browne & Browne 1
Toronto	64	0	0	0	0
Montreal	64	0	0	0	0
Montreal	64	0	0	0	0
Montreal	64	0	0	0	0
Montreal	64	0	0	0	0
Montreal	64	0	0	0	0
Montreal	64	0	0	0	0
Montreal	64	0	0	0	0

3	4	5	6	7	8
3	4	5	6	7	8
3	4	5	6	7	8
3	4	5	6	7	8
3	4	5	6	7	8
3	4	5	6	7	8
3	4	5	6	7	8
3	4	5	6	7	8
3	4	5	6	8	9
3	4	5	6	7	8
3	4	5	6	7	8
3	4	5	6	7	8
3	4	5	6	7	8
3	4	5	6	7	8
3	4	5	6	7	8
3	4	5	6	7	9
3	4	5	6	7	9
3	4	5	6	7	9
3	4	5	6	7	9
3	4	5	6	7	9
3	4	5	6	7	9
3	4	5	6	7	9
3	4	5	6	7	10
3	4	5	6	7	10
3	4	5	6	7	10
3	4	5	6	7	10
3	4	5	6	7	10
3	4	5	6	7	10
3	4	5	6	7	10
3	4	5	6	7	11
3	4	5	6	7	11
3	4	5	6	7	11
3	4	5	6	7	11
3	4	5	6	7	11
3	4	5	6	7	11
3	4	5	6	7	11
3	4	5	6	7	12
3	4	5	6	7	12
3	4	5	6	7	12
3	4	5	6	7	12
3	4	5	6	7	12
3	4	5	6	7	12
3	4	5	6	7	12
3	4	5	6	7	13
3	4	5	6	7	13
3	4	5	6	7	13
3	4	5	6	7	13
3	4	5	6	7	13
3	4	5	6	7	13
3	4	5	6	7	13
3	4	5	6	7

4	5	6	7	8	9
4	5	6	7	8	9
4	5	6	7	8	9
4	5	6	7	8	9
4	5	6	7	8	9
4	5	6	7	8	9
4	5	6	7	8	9
4	5	6	7	8	10

5	6	7	8	9	10
5	6	7	8	9	10
5	6	7	8	9	10
5	6	7	8	9	10
5	6	7	8	9	10
5	6	7	8	9	10
5	6	7	8	9	10
5	6	7	8	9	10
5	6	7	8	10	10
5	6	7	8	10	10
5	6	7	8	10	10
5	6	7	8	10	10
5	6	7	8	10	10

6	7	8	9	10	11
7	7	8	9	10	11
7	7	8	9	10	11
7	7	8	9	10	11
7	7	8	9	10	11
7	7	8	9	10	11
7	7	8	9	10	11
7	7	8	9	10	10

7	8	9	10	11	12
8	8	9	10	11	12
8	8	9	10	11	12
8	8	9	10	11	12
8	8	9	10	11	12
8	8	9	10	11	12
8	8	9	10	11	12
8	8	9	10	10	11

8	9	10	11	12	13
9	9	10	11	12	13
9	9	10	11	12	13
9	9	10	11	12	13
9	9	10	11	12	13
9	9	10	11	12	13
9	9	10	11	12	13

9	10	11	12	13	14
10	10	11	12	13	14
10	10	11	12	13	14
10	10	11	12	13	14
10	10	11	12	13	14
10	10	11	12	13	14
10	10	11	12	13	14

10	11	12	13	14	15
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NATIONAL SPORTS REPORT

Shorts

NIX SHORES (NIST ACTION SINCE APPLE SURGERY)

Re: Nix's 20 yard touchdowns toss to R.J. Harvey two plays after hooking up with new speedster Action Middle for 18 yards highlighted the Broncos quarterback's return successful return from a broken ankle in his team's 15-12 pressured loss to the Padres on Friday night in Detroit. "It hit good," Nix said after working with new

play-caller Doris Webb for the first time in a game. "Just like any typical year, going out for the first drive, there's going to be some different things that you can prove from. But I felt like for the first drive of the season it was wild. I think the striker's performance was what I got out there it was just like riding a bike, nothing really change." Nix's second and final series ended with a 10-yard field goal from W'Klein. The Nix-Wholfe contests in a week in progress in the missed most of the offseason and Waddie, who was acquired in a trade with the Dolphins in March, missed a week of training camp. Nix completed 6 of 9 passes for 7m each and the TD in his first five series for the Broncos 15-2 wins. Smoking his right ankle against the Rills in the playoffs seven months ago. He underwent surgery in January and had a follow-up procedure to remove bone spurs in the spring.

SERENA, ALCARAZ PLAN TO TEAM UP AT US OPEN

Second Williams will team up with Carlos Alcazaz to create a powerhouse mixed doubles and in her return to the U.S. Open. The U.S. Tennis Association announced Saturday that Williams and Alcazaz had been given a wild card into the tournament. The mixed doubles make three league Tuesday, with the winning team sharing

Slimillion. It will be Williams' first time playing at the U.S. Open since 2022. The 23-time Grand Slam singles champion returned to pro tennis this summer. "Let's go some." Alcazaz posted on X, with a fire wind andaging Williams. The 44-year-old Williams, above, isn't planning to play singles in New York. The UITA had been holding one women's wild card, presumably in case Williams wanted it. However, the tournament announced Saturday that it had been given to America in 9-26. Tennis, the 2020 Australian Open, change Williams played singles at Whittington but national a knee injury in her first round loss. She played doubles with other some Tennis at the Caucasian Open, and they could still play together at the U.S. Open. Alcazaz will defend his U.S. Open singles title after being sidelined since April with a right wind injury.

IN RETURN TO SPL, HULL SHOCK'S MAN UNITED 2-0

Tallimans a 20-era return to the Premier League after a nine-year absence, burling yester Manchester United 2-0 on Saturday to puncture any preseason optimum surrounding the 20-time championship. First half goals from Semi Akari and Nobel Mandir at any course consigned United to a rapid loss away to a team that

was promoted to the second-tier Championship playoffs at the end of last season in its first year under manager Nicky Jukovic, above. United finished their last season in secure a return to the Champions League, revealing interim manager Michael Carroll with a permanent contract as well as a new midfield in Years' Tolerance and Andrey Sutera. Marcus Ruddleif has come back from a loan spell at Barcelona and entered as a halftimeish. They struggled to improve along with many other players in a six-licient display that ended 2-0 in the 2020 season. The team is 2010 under Alex Ferguson – still has to go to recapture its former games and is unlikely to challenge for the wild, at least on this evidence anyway. "We have a lot to improve on – it was more going to be perfect," Carrick said. "One game doesn't change the direction of everything." – AP

COLLEGE FOOTBALL BIG 12 PREVIEW

Texas Tech coach Joey McGuire looks on during the second half against Utah on Sept. 20 in Salt Lake City. JEFFREY B. ALLRED/BN

Texas Tech seeks elusive repeat

Conference has produced 6 different champions over last 6 seasons

By Stephen Hawkins ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Big 12 Conference has had no different champions in the past six seasons.

While a 10th-contract Texas Tech seeks a repeat after winning its first Big 12 title and making the College Football Playoff, teams like No. 16 RVL No. 21 Utah and No. 23 Houston could make a push to control the league's streak to server.

"We want to do something that very few teams have been able to do, and that's to win the Big 12 championship again," Tech coach Joey McGuire said.

The Red Raiders reloaded again through the regular pre-dubber setting school records with 12 wins and nine NFL draft picks. Will Hammond is healthy after an ACL injury last season and will start at quarterback after the offseason legal team surrounding transfer Brendan Scorley, who was declared justifiable by the NCAA because of gambling.

RVL is coming off its first 12-win season since 2005, and both do loosen were to Texas Tech. 29-7 in Lubbock, then 34-7 in the Big 12 title game.

"We know that last year was some really cool things, some awesome success," O'Kee and Cragier coach Kalani Nader said. "At the same time, we know what we can do better."

Near Cragier enters Big 12 ranking in the LJ Martin (3,305 yards, 12 TDs rushing) and QB Bray Bachmann, who thorns for 3,033 yards, ran for 527 and accounted for 26 TDs. Of passing, 31 rushing after getting thrust into the starting role as a true firsthand.

Discard the start from four wins to 10 in its second season with coach Willie Fritz, and returns fluid-threat QB Connor Weigman (3,600 total yards and 36 TDs).

Utah has 82% of its total offense back QBs Devon Dungler and Byrd Pickles, and RB Weigman (Parker) from an Li-wiz team, but two offseason Spence were first-round NFL draft picks and coach Kyle Whittingham left after 22 seasons for Michigan.

OUT WEST, IN THE SOCKS

Arizona quarterback Paul Fifira, that national active leader with 73 TD passes, is a sorry going into his fourth season starting for the same team. With him back and the

RVL quarterback Bray Bachmann throws a pass in the first half of the Big 12 championship game against Texas Tech on Dec. 6 in Arlington, Texas. JALAN CORTEZ/AP

unexpected return of leading raider Ismail Mehdi, the Wildcats hope to build an a 9-4 finish and to a Big 12 contender.

Arizona State won the Big 12 title and made the playoff in its league debut in 2024. The injury plagued San Devils weren't able to repeat last year and now has without QB Sam Levett (transfer to LAO) and recourt to John Treen (first-round NFL pick by the faint).

Duran Sanders, who last year had surgery for bladder cancer, said he feels like his old self-going into his fourth season at Colorado. The first-ever-offseason and defensive coordinator after a five-game losing streak to end last season with a 1-6 conference record. He is 16-21 overall with the fluffs.

NEW BUT FAMILIAR

The Big 12's four-way head coach is include Karena Rudy's Griffin Minto and Vicki's Morgan Kicilloy at their alma mater replacing their former bosses. Jimmy Rogers is six-way at Iowa State when Matt Campbell left after 10 seasons for Penn State, and Eric Morris is at Oklahoma State.

Klein had been gone for two seasons as Texas A&H's offensive coordinator when Chris Eklund suddenly retired from K-State. Kicilloy was Utah's defensive coordinator when Whittingham resigned.

Roger won an RCB national championship three seasons ago at local coach at his alma mater, South Dakota State, and was at Washington State last year.

Oklahoma State's 60 newcomers include 21 who came with Morris from North Texas, which lost to Tulane in the American Conference championship game to miss

out on a CFP berth. Among the Mean Green transfers were QB Dave Mottenshire, the national passing leader with 4,379 yards on freshman, BFC (60 Hurdle) and LAO yards and PBS best 25 TDs rushing as a freshman; and WB Wipar Young (70 can be, 1,244 yards, 19 TDs).

This is the first time since 2004 the Conference takes a season without Mike Dundy their head coach. They have lost 19 conference games in a row, with consecutive 0-9 conference records since a 49-21 loss to Texas in the 2023 Big 12 championship game.

STATEMENT NEEDED

After making the 12-team playoff and going into the round of the season, Texas Tech lost 25-9 to Oregon in the Oregon Bowl quarterback game. The 26-year-old Big 12, which has never had multiple playoff teams, is a 4-for-Off game.

"There's no obligation as programs in this conference that we play at a high level, and then I think it's really important that we win in the playoffs," McGuire said. "Until we do that as a conference, then we're going to continue to have the same narrative that we have right now."

The 2024 Big 12's first repeat champion is no longer in the league.

Oklahoma won a record 14 Big 12 championships before going to the SEC two years ago. The 6-seven wins on a 1-6 on from 2005 to 2020, following 2019 the New Cansas State, Texas, Arizona State and the Red Raiders winning after.

This will be the 2nd season for the Big 12, which will host its 29th championship game Dec. 4.

NASCAR

Preece desperate for 'home run'

ASSOCIATED PRESS

LONDON, N31 – Amid the attention and pressure of racing for NASCAR Cup Series title stakes this weekend at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Rose Pence is hanging loose with his hometown crowd.

"The South Pence's Residential Racing driver is on the ground, and making the start of in drivers who will cooperate in the Chase, the 10-year championship run that slows the season. With two aces remaining in the regular season, Pence is ranked 10 points behind the 10-year Galvezgen for the final spot in the Chase.

"We need a home run," Pence said. "That's the plan."

But he could, at the idea of walking off the outside world to focus solely on his No. 60 final. Pence's annual has embraced the frenzy of racing around the course as a flying point for his last-ditch charge at the Chase.

The first in Connecticut, native has spent the week in New England competing with his family-owned home at minor league race across the region (including Saturday's Modified Series race at New Hampshire).

From Pence's Motorcycle to his a core full of loads with nicknames like "John the Plumber," who have been helping the driver since he was overnight.

"We here nicknames for each and every one of them," said Pence, 35. "It's an opportunity to race with guys that I've known forever. They just enjoy racing and having some fun. I live for getting behind the whole of a race car, not sitting in a room analyzing what people are going to do. But most if you race enough, you can predict what people are going to do. So I think it's important to race more. I don't think it's a dislocation."

New Hampshire's Bar 1,000-mile end is a critical opportunity for Pence, who finished 17th at Richmond Raceway last week and fall 31 points further behind 16th in the Chase standing.

Real drivers have been dominant recently at New Hampshire, leading 27% of 101 laps last year while taking three of the top four spots.

Pence has 60 NASCAR starts at the track known as "The Mugs 500," as two NASCAR races at New Hampshire for run Galvezgen, who has only a few seasons of real experience after a career of racing on road and street across before entering NASCAR.

"When I go to New Hampshire and the fact that I look at the 4-4-4 race, I'm not thinking. I can do pretty well, where there is definitely no figure out! Pence said: 'There are things that these deep freestormally on road courses. We all have tendencies that we're better at than others, but going into New Hampshire, I feel like being from New England. It's my people. It's a place that I've been racing at since I was 18 years old.'

His career highlight at New Hampshire was a Modified Series victory on a last lap pass at 2023.

"I've definitely had a lot of memories, and it would be nice to add one with a win in the Cup Series here," Pence said. "I've loved everything about this place."

LIMITED HAZE

After winning last September at New Hampshire, Ryan Bhaire will receive his trophy on Sunday – a 20-pound lobster mounted on a plaque.

Teammate, Joey Lagano said he started the tradition for the "London the Lobster" trophy in 2009 when he scored the first of his 20 Cup victories.

"They were like: 'What do you want to do with this life is it? We'll just play in to you,'" Lagano said. "I was like: 'Also! Why don't you just put it on a plaque?' I've got a couple on the wall. It's a good icebreaker when people come to your house and see a lobster on the wall."

Ryan Pence, driver of the No. 60 Kroger/Ferrari Factor's first, assets to the bottom of the Iowa Corn 250 Power Trophy Ethanol at Iowa Speedway on Aug. 9-9 Newton, Iowa. SEAN GARDNER/GETTY

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Life & Travel

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TRAVEL

Go west

Tucson, Arizona is a city for people who love hiking, hiking and other outdoor adventures

©2011

BALANCING ACT

A bigger 'us'

How one church turned the offering plate into an outpouring of community, writes Heidi Stevens

DOMING ARIZONA BORN/COLLI

ALSO IN TRAVEL

Nick Steven: Europe's crazy rich royals and their lavish retreats

Travel Troubleshooter: After a blowout from bald tires, renter's stuck paying for damage

CHRISTINA HOUSE/LOS ANGELES TIMES

LIFE

Creative awakening

Her son's death was the catalyst that lead her to find a new purpose: 'He's whispering, 'Mom, this is your path'

RELATIONSHIPS

Ex-ethpartite: Trouble communicating

My Pet World: Two playtime problems, two simple solutions

Miss Manners: Hurt by mother's lack of appreciation for financial help and gifts

STYLE

Finding NeeDoh

Kids are making, trading and hunting for squeezable, malleable blob toys that come in a variety of forms

HIROKO MALLING/THE NEW YORK TIMES

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Conscientious worker ruminates on threadbare clothing threshold

R. Eric Thomas ASKING DDK

Dear Eric: How much wear is we much wear on personal items?

If I am even middle class, I'm clinging to the bottom rang by the tips of my fingers. I know work-lodding must be clean and neat, free from stains and holes. But how much wiggle room is there for imperfections?

Some examples I want to a matinee/theater performance the other day. My feet were hurting so I decided to wear sneakers, but always paranoid about doing the wrong thing I googled if sneakers were acceptable for that. It said yes, as long as they were clean sneakers.

At the end of the day those new black sneakers had a white stuff mark that wouldn't come off and the white part near the side was late white. Are those still socially acceptable for the theater? Or are they just waste sneakers now that they don't look perfect anymore?

My cost has a small tear on the side. I can't afford to replace it. Is that still acceptable?

If I can't afford to keep replacing stuff whenever it looks even a little imperfect, is it acceptable to keep wearing it if we're not actually wearing it at work until we can afford to replace it? Clothes'd Off

Dear Clothes'd: I'd like to encourage you to be a little easier on yourself. Wear and tear on clothes, especially clothes that you wear socially, isn't a crime and it isn't always a sign of disrespect.

For example, the customs around attire at the theater have refused quite a bit.

Even a Broadway theater wouldn't turn you away for wearing sneakers. It matters that you're there and when the lights go down, all eyes are going to be wickering anyway.

I talked to a professional stylist, Erik Larsson of Pretendertain, about your question. He often points out that one of the most important aspects of fashion is that you feel good.

"I know how important it is to tell your story through how you present yourself to the world," he said, noting that your conscientiousness to show us up authentically as yourself, wherever the environment, is the most important thing to consider in this case.

He continued, "I would encourage you to continue to show up for yourself and the world around you, with the same confidence and thoughtfulness you've displayed here. And if it helps, embracing sustainability in your garments given the cyclical nature of the fashion industry is one of the best ways to be timelessly well-dressed, no matter where you can."

Don't worry so much about imperfection. Perfection isn't the goal.

If you can afford it, consider hurting tears repaired or patched, but most importantly, allow yourself some grace.

Dear Eric: I am currently in my second year of college, which I have been still financing. I am still struggling with what to do for a future career.

I just turned 10, and I feel like I am talking behind all of my peers while wasting my money. Everyone already seems to know what they want from their lives and careers, but I'm still stuck.

Do you have any advice on how to go about that? Stock Student

Dear Student: First, I want to acknowledge that

what you're doing is both commendable and difficult. Paying your way through school is no small task so give yourself credit for that.

Next, it's normal to feel confluensive a lack of direction, especially at this point in your college career. There are resources on campus that can help you learn about yourself and your interests, from a career centre to internalization, to class advisers and mentorships.

Take advantage of those with an open mind. One of the benefits of the time is that it gives you space to experiment and discover. That's part of what you're paying for.

If you continue to feel that the fit isn't right, talk to your advisor or, created academic mentor about taking a year off or even transferring to a different kind of school. See what they say to that.

Also, remember that competition is not always the truth. Your peers may have clearer ideas about where they want to go but they also might change their minds or experience the same doubts that you have.

Ask yourself if the goals that a particular peer is pursuing are goals you want for yourself. If so, then adopt them and adapt them to your life. But, if not, then stop using the existence of those goals as a way of torturing yourself.

Being stuck doesn't always hold comfortable, but it's not always a cause for alarm. Another way of thinking about it is that you're taking the time you need to observe, learn, plan and regroup.

That's not being stuck. That's standing where you belong right now.

Send questions to eric@aalzegers.com.

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Church puts words into community action

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It was 2015, and Pastor Bob Over was working on the current level of 2016. Before that Sunday was the congregation at First United Presbyterian Church in Belleville, a suburb of St. Louis on the Illinois side of the state line.

The message was about taking one of our mother's—a word Over has worked hard to plant and grow since leaving him in 2016, and the morning career more than a decade ago to become a Presbyterian minister.

But on this particular week, Over wasn't feelings—“It was just later,” he said “it just felt like a lot of words and not a lot of action. It needed something to it.”

In that Sunday, standing in front of the Rock, Over made a request. When already needs you have on the corner of your working bulletin, it is off the corner and place it in the offering place.

“I gave a pretty exhaustive list. Maybe you have a bill you need help with, maybe something in your house needs to be fixed, maybe you need someone to talk to,” he recalled. “It felt a little raw and a little much good, oh my gods, people really need help too.”

The following Sunday, Over presented a Pastor-Point being all the needs and side of the congregation to write down on the corners of their biddiness if they would help with any. He spent the next few weeks seeing great place of signed bulletin corners into place of words and place of help. “It signed something,” Over said.

What it spends the groom, it is your later, into a full-flame, year-round program called the New Among City That Over's

The congregation at First United Presbyterian Church in Belleville, Illinois, conducts a Needs Among Us program to help the community. ROB OVER

church operates with the help of Brightpoint, a social service agency that serves families across Illinois. First United Presbyterian formed a partnership with Brightpoint Domestic Children's Home & Aid (in 2016) hoping to the nonprofit's care workers to help operate and expand this thing that began as a humble kid to put words into action.

The church had long sponsored Brightpoint families for Christmas, but often lost control with the folks they met after the kids. The church bidders met one became a wide-spcall on a few fronts: the extent of the needs within their church community. The simultaneous generation and resource efforts to within their church community

sity, and the reality that needs aren't limited to the church's flock on of course, December.

Now four families a year are “Needs Among Us” weeks. The church bands and other instead of aiding folks to write on bulletin corners, but they still couple and share the needs with the congregation the following week. Brightpoint, meanwhile, helps identify local families in a train, and a team of volunteers can disarm the work of connecting needs to helpers.

“When the needs are presented to the congregation,” Over said, “the church doesn't distinguish between a need from a long-time church member and a need from a Brightpoint family

in the community. They simply list all the needs. They are the ones they're philosophy that they're making the 'no' bigger, rather than creating a 'needs among those' group on.”

The program started with 10 to 16 families from Brightpoint, Over said, and grew to 10 the second year. The program now supports up to 50 families at a time, providing everything from school supplies to original tuition to, on occasion, donated care.

Some people want church to be like a country club,” Over said. “This is more. We're trying to do the潛a need of helping people.”

I found out about Over from a three-year college who now works at Bright-

point. He thought I'd like the story.

“I'm a very new, and I love the example. I especially love that the program was born in an offering plate, who hasn't whom we're usually invited to place our needs. Over set me straight on that.

“When you ask for help, it can feel like you're sharing a burden,” Over said. “But the way we understand service is that you're offering an opportunity to do God's work. You're offering up a dependability and trust. You're offering to have for someone else to have an impact in the world.”

I realize me think about all the places and ways we could try to ensure the program should into our own lives. Even if it just

means remembering to ask our people what they need. “I'm a very new, and I love to be understanding of humanity, of humans, to watch people, work after work, listen to someone's bid for help and then find a way to acquire.”

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Do headbands look professional?

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Dear Answer Angel/Ellen: I'm in need of a hair accessory that on her date will help me manage the unwell come need of summer. I'm a very young woman, a length hair. After trying various days across here and past, the one I have found that would have to keep my hair in choice. I've had that for years. I have been a lot of under control. My questions in another I look like I am trying to return to my name when I am a 16-year-old professional. — Kathryn M

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Mother greets financial help, gifts with stinging statements

Justin Martin NASS MANNERS

Dear Miss Manners: We face an awkward question with my name. We are chronically unwise with her money taking frequent international vacation that later. Her without enough money for such a income.

We are not willing to give her the monthly allowance she wants because it would be classified to us, and also because if she has been a budget, she would have everything she needs, plus a little extra for her — living at least as well as we do.

We do give her gift on my special occasions when it seems appropriate. I do give her gift on this man's grocery stores, or we get the necessary home repairs or give her the practical items she has complained about not have. This is often made not what she wants, and she is not the about making it known. I suppose that's a cadmium with what we just have to live.

However, after a three-inguard that she would probe a two-week vacation in Hershey's a request from the owner failed a bill. “I was going to get you a call, but I didn't feel like going across the street to buy one.”

We really do not want the growing and severe of the money. I could not be able to personally that we are not worth even that much bother to her, particularly following this attitude about whatever we sacrificed to give her.

Is there a peter way to say, “Oh, shut up!”

Gentle Reader: As you know, the sporting card (or has I thereof) is your name or's mean-spotted way of representing that full of gratitude for your financial

support — a lack she feels because while you give the money, you — for understand the reasons — withheld control over how it was spent. Your question demands are that it hurt. Miss Manners mentions this real because she intends to answer your question, but rather as a reminder of the majority — etiquette or influence and in general that one is to act, even when one feels like saying, “Oh, shut up!” — matters.

It would have to confound if you mother had kept her disappointed on to benefit and instead just said “thank you.” Just as it will be better if you tell you mother you do not need the growing — and — you are just happy to hear from her.

Dear Miss Manners: When I am with someone in person, I think it is rude to answer the phone (the message being that the caller is more important than no conversation). A friend claims that she only intends to pick up and say she will call them back.

But sometimes there is no nox hunge, and I am sitting there waiting till she finishes. I always let my calls go to was email when I am with a real person. That is what was usually a lot of time. I am not a real man, and I say her way to talk. I would appreciate your phone etiquette presence or not.

Gentle Reader: People willing things and those in their grips present the idea that I'm Sunday-Champs-Everything. Miss Manners learned out that this is without the case as regards etiquette.

When someone shows up at your door unannounced (or calls you phone) when I hear from her, I'm sure to offer a welcome. It is proper to report that the would-be visitor will have a call for her (one coming on your vacation). In certain

circumstances, you might choose to answer the door (or pick up).

Yes, to prescribe to say politely that you will have no call for person back because you are engaged, but it is difficult to do so gracefully — and generally unnecessary. Rariting the discovery of the all-round genuine emergency, leaving your original companion waiting, is definitely does not qualify as polite — even if the caller is to be too “real” for being at a distance.

Dear Miss Manners: I was a single mom (sister 16) with a person's child. After eight years of her dating, I met a man through my CB radio community whom I took a good liking to.

We spent eight months getting to know each other and he never heard that he was a member, nor that he had learning disabilities. He lived across the country and never asked me for anything. I decided I would like to share my life with him. He literally rode an adult into his 3,000 miles to me and married me before even coming to the house.

I'm extremely happy. It's been for months and we're doing well. But when others hear of our meaning, they act confused. Have should I react?

Gentle Reader: If you feel like answering any clarifying questions (Miss Manners has a few herself), you may, of course, fear it is not a requirement. If others have your best interests at least and love that you are happy, they should be happy too. Now about that trick (e)

To send a question to the Miss Manners team of Judith Martin, Nicholas Van Alderhe and Zaksha Martin, go to skyscanneries.com or write them to: Universal Uclick, 1200 Walnut St., Kansas City, MO 64206.

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FLEWERS OF HAVENING

By Lisa Boone

LOS ANGELES TIMES

It was after the death of her son, Laith, that Rome fable decided to become a folk artist.

She had always been creative, experimenting with watercolors and learning to sow at a young age.

"I had a creative inkling," she said, "but I never pursued it."

Everything changed Aug. 17, 2003. When Saleh was near months pregnant, she woke up with stomach pains and presumed she was in labor. She and her husband, Naim, immediately went to the hospital, where doctors checked her and put the baby on a heart monitor. Saleh's blood pressure was high, however, and the baby's heart rate kept dropping. After about an hour, his heartbeat stopped. Doctors rushed her in for an emergency C-section, but it was too late. Laith did not survive.

Saleh lost a tremendous amount of blood and developed postpartum HELLP syndrome, a dangerous form of procolampus, but doctors were able to stabilize her.

When she woke up, the first thing she asked was, "How's my baby?"

"Aug. 17, 2003, was the most difficult day of my life, and Aug. 22 was the second most difficult, the day we drove home with an empty car seat," she said. "They named their son Laith Finn fable."

"His first name means 'lion' in Arabic. His middle name is an ala to Hackleberry Finn — sharp wit, kind heart, strong moral compass — all the attributes he's imparted on us in spirit," said fable, 45.

After such a devastating loss, she found it difficult to trust the world again.

"It was hard to trust anything," she said. "The medical system. Myself. It made me realize the fragility of bringing anything to life."

So after years of working as a television producer, Saleh left broadcast journalism and trained into her creative spirit.

She grew up in San Diego. Her mother was raised on a farm in Mexico, and her father moved from Tijuana to Los Angeles to be near her mother, who started working for a family in Sherman Dale at 10. They eventually settled in San Diego, where Saleh's father, now a church deacon, worked as a car salesman.

"He always wanted to be a weather-motron TV," she said, explaining how he helped to get during break circulations by doing a weather report from the car lot.

Saleh wanted to be a broadcast jour-

"The word 'Mystic' has also become a driving force of what this journey means to me." Saint says of her brand. "A magical, otherworldly journey that has led me to some beautiful friendships, projects and unlimited well of curiosity."

neller at her father had. After graduating from San Diego State, she interned in the sports department at CBS affiliate KPMH-TV, although she didn't know much about sports. She enjoyed sharing information with people, learned how to write plays of the week and felt she had found the right career.

But during a summer class at Mass College, she started to think journalism might not be for her.

"I'm an empath — a sensitive soul — so when I was reading news about death and destruction, my eyes could not lie," she said. Her professor told her, "This may not be your thing." But when she arranged flowers on camera, she really came alive. She decided to work behind the scenes as a producer.

Her professor helped her get her first network news job in 2009, and she moved to Los Angeles, working on hardnews and entertainment coverage.

After losing Laith's decade later, she couldn't keep doing red-carpet interviews and acting like everything was fine.

"It all felt so different, superficial and hard," she said. "I felt like there was a bigger purpose out there for me. It's in the small things that we find the big things."

She started by painting folk art-inspired invitations for a brand's baby shower. She painted delicate flowers, oranges and leaves oranges and leather.

"I was just trying to say yes to things that were really scary," she said. "Laith gave me the courage to do that."

Her first son, she said, became "a catalyst for painting".

Then, at the first Thanksgiving during the COVID-19 pandemic when people could gather again, she had a light-fndb moment.

"I was setting the table and didn't have flowers or anything to add to

decorate, not thought. 'I have those candles. I'm going to paint them and make them fancy,'" she said.

Her guests were impressed. Airline worst on, painting taper candles helped her find joy again, and others noticed, too.

"The one thing I hear when people pick up a pair of my candles is, 'This makes me so happy. It makes me feel like there's life here,'" she said.

One of the hardest parts of losing a child "is that you're not just grieving the person, you're grieving the future you imagined with them," said L.A. based grief specialist Carla Harvey. "A lifetime of love suddenly has nowhere to go. Creating art doesn't erase grief, but it can become a way to carry it."

Saleh created her brand Mystic by Rome in 2023, but it took her some time before she could gather the courage to try to sell them.

When she brought a shodless fall of samples to Mickey Kahan, the Los Angeles store agreed to carry her candles. "I was beside myself," Saleh said.

"Her candles were absolutely beautiful, and she had a fantastic spirit that made selling them a no-brainer," said James on designer Todd Nicker, co-founder of Nicker Kahan.

Saleh viewed her new side project as a way to earn extra money for piano lessons for her 13-year-old son Linus.

Last year, luxury conglomerate LVMH commissioned Saleh to paint 400 pairs of candles or 900 candles in total, for its Chautier jewelry board. The collection was unveiled at an elaborate event at the Athene des Vaux de Cornay, just outside Paris.

"It was fun," Saleh said about the process, which took an months from conception to delivery. "I felt like I was dreaming on candles up for a party."

Always a hard worker, which she

After her son's death, California woman found new purpose, gathered courage to become artist

Saint's hand-quartied candles retail for approximately $4.5 to $10. CHRISTINA WOLDELIUS ANGELES TIMES PHOTOS

attributes to being a first-generation child of immigrant parents, Saleh has now created a candle collection for Parice and Ward in Los Feliz, leather napkin holders for interior designer Nathan Turner and peningueants wrapping paper for Olive Anikers.

On an early, she leads painting workshops, and she loves helping others tap into their creativity. The most meaningful one for her was an ornament workshop attended by several victims of the 2023 Los Angeles wildfires.

"Without saying anything, we understand each other," she said. "I understood that they were trying to create memories."

Saleh knows what it means for things not to last — "unpermanence," she calls it — whether it is homes, candles or life itself.

She paints every day in the art-filled dining room of her home, surrounded by her family, candles and her two dogs, Luminis and Olive.

"Painting is like meditation," she said. "You can sit in your dining room and tune everything out and just be in the moment."

She knows painting candles isn't new, but she believes her motivation and the care she puts into each candle makes them special beyond their looks.

She has learned to look at the world that way, that painting is her. "Many room has offered her healing and joy, that she can trust herself and her body, that continuing to be inspired by her two boys — "one in spirit and the other here on Earth" — means that Laith will always be with her."

Many people think healing means moving on, said grief specialist Harvey, but "it's really about finding ways to move forward while keeping the people we love we remain our lives. That's what I see to her candles, not an ending, but an ongoing relationship with her son."

"I feel like my son is channeling through this medium," Saleh said, her voice breaking. "He's whiapoenigy me, 'Mom, this is your path.' That has been my driving force. We're going to grow this together."

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School conferences set tone for relationships

Parents can take steps to make most of teacher meetings

By Cheyenne Mumpheey A COCACCOY, PHOTO

Parent-teacher conferences can contact a familiar scene: adults or annual into child's ice chain, listening to teachers into through a list of students' achievements and struggles.

For many families, they can also meet themselves. Today's school conferences are sometimes 10 to 20 minutes, with little time for parents to ask their own questions. Adults may arrive with their own triggers about their time in school. They may be worried about being judged or derailing what a teacher may or about them: that.

For teachers, conferences can make pressure to give a snapshot of a child's progress, with the notifying certainty to connect months away. - If all.

The child's ice-zone behind, but it can set the tone for a family's relationship and partnership with the teacher.

When they sign off, office several early opportunities for parents and teachers to connect, from most-the-teacher events and back to school nights to open houses. By the time conferences are even the calendar, parents and teachers should already be commensuring.

The teacher can take words or months to hear from a child's teacher, who must establish relationships with dozens of families. Don't wait, say parents and teachers alike. Reach out yourself.

The you want to set your child up for success? It's a yes or no. And if it's a yes, they you have to be very successful," said Rod White, a Houston mother of two.

When has not known, now it was in preschool, four teachers open and watch the night for action. White says it's learned how

Emily Henderson sits Aug. 6 at her desk in her charter school classroom in Flagstaff, Arizona. CHICAGO BUSINESS CO.

important it was to stay engaged with the school. Since then, she has introduced herself to each of her own teachers at the first opportunity, even if virtually. She tells them how she prefers to communicate—whether over email, phone or via school app—and when she cannot reachable.

Technology can make it easier for parents with multiple children or have the kids to stay connected and for teachers to send quick messages or reminders. But with schools using multiple platforms, some parents say it helps to establish a preferred way to communicate.

Early in the relationship, parents and teachers should focus on building trust, said J.B. Robinson, a clinical psychologist and director of students at National University in San Diego. Positive interactions on this putting money into a relationship with the car has been the most often challenged carist, he said. For parents, that can

make something internet in the classroom and recognize top the effort that goes into creating a positive learning environment. Teachers can similarly begin with questions about the individual child, rather than internets—andy moving into classroom expectations or academic performance.

Whatever the nature of your first communication with a teacher, try not to worry that you're looking up the teacher. Your child's growth is the priority, and communicating with you is part of the teacher's job.

Parent-teacher conferences are designed to address students' academic and social progress, identify concerns and discuss what comes next. For there may not be time to cover everything parents or teachers want to discuss.

"The teacher and the person will begin in with realistic expectations as to what can actually be accomplished in one parent-teacher conference and see

that there are something inside for a conversation," said Robinson, the psychologist.

The meeting can also be open for reasons. Teachers may be having dozens of back-to-back conferences, while parents may arrive with weakly worth of questions, all extending it valid. Depending on the school and the child's grade some teachers follow a set agenda, with presentation dates, packets or links of topics to come.

Emily Henderson, who teaches first and second grade at BASH Charter School in Flagstaff, Arizona, says her conversations are mostly individualized, with some focusing more on academic and others on social emotional trends.

"We use parent-teacher conferences to really talk about strengths, talk about weaknesses of students, and then come up with a photographer to address these concerns or address these needs," Henderson said. Given time constraints,

parents should come with just a few thoughtful questions, teachers can find remember this is a starting point. It usually reasonable to set up another conference later in the year, even if your school teacher share one scheduled. So you can continue the conversation on this or your the phone.

Teachers should recommend that students join the conference, and in other cases, a parent may want to be a good idea along — or needs it. If they lack skills now, for younger students, teachers recommend asking to advance whether they should attend. If that is an option, it's no do plan to bring the student or younger siblings, let the teacher know about of time so they can prepare for a more engaging meeting or set up a new alternative. If younger students are present, it is not a diminishment and teachers to engage them and speak directly to them, said Eddie Hintze, head of school at

BASH Flagstaff.

"When I have younger students or a meeting, we typically have a mini meeting with the student and the parent," she said. "Then we can also climb deeper or lower these long, distinct and conversations that a student wouldn't want to be a part of or be able to be car through." After students have more than one student, the student and are better positioned to contribute to discussions about their progress, challenges and possible next steps.

"We're doing students a short-term when we're not teaching them to be on-the-sets, when we are with the students, and now communicate skills, to have the tough conversations when they need to be had," said Kendrick Proudly, head of school assistant pre-legal with Deanez Public Schools. "This is a safe space for those conversations to happen."

Parents don't need to make sure that a long line of questions. A few thoughtful ones can help clarify what a teacher considers success, whether you seeing in the classroom, what support is available and how to stay connected through and the year. Consider asking the following questions:

● What are you making to communicate with parents, and how often should we check in?

● What does anyone look like for the school this year?

● How do you identify when a student is being behind, and who should I speak with about getting additional support?

● What are you making about my child that I might not see at home?

Parent-teacher conferences do not involve every concern, but they should also be able to do so. Neither these are regular checks, on average, nor are more than one year's time. The school's performance is not a matter of time, but it is not a matter of time, and it is not a matter of time, and it is not a matter of time, and it is not a matter of time, and it is not a matter of time, and it is not a matter of time, and it is not a matter of time, and it is not a matter of time, and it is not a matter of time, and it is not a matter of time, and it is not a matter of time, and it is not a matter of time, and it is not a matter of time.

MY PET WORLD

Simple solutions can fix pair of playtime problems

By Cathy M. Rosenthal THAN 80, 82 85 91 95 HADICT

Dear Cathy: I have a 4-year-old female black lab. She is very social and have to play with other dogs. She is very well with the same group of dogs every morning, and they all get along good.

The problem is not dog. She is very good, but one of the other dogs instead of playing with her. This dog is also a female black lab and is 2 years old. They and the play well together and the other dog get up and. The other dog doesn't seem to care when try dog is humping her and another dog should be very aggressive.

In there's way to stop this behavior. So why old, the start along that? — Kristi, herself, New York

Dear Kristi: While opening changes between levels, there is no evidence that it causes another dog to begin mounting, so the timing of the behavior may be different. In the past, mounting or bumping behavior is allodious, slowed, and more about excitement, play or emotional arousal, especially when it is directed at a familiar dog. Yes, sure the other dog

Humping is often less about sex and more about excitement, play or emotional arousal, especially when it is directed at a familiar dog, writes Cathy M. Rosenthal. CHICAGO TIMES

isn't reacting negatively and there is no aggressive between them, this sounds more like an overly ardent, stunty play behavior than a serious problem. Some dogs become so excited during play that mounting becomes an outlet for the excitement. It's the doggy equivalent of saying, 'Hey friend, I am so excited to say you!' Even if the other dog seems tolerant now, they may not always be — and other dogs may not like it, either, so it is important to

interrupt and redirect this behavior to prevent it from escalating into a fight. Rather than waiting until your dog is fully engaged in the behavior, watch for signs that do the coming overcruited. As her play becomes there, more serious or increasingly focused on one dog, she is beginning to lose her "thinking brain." That is the perfect time to interrupt with a car such as "Sugar" or "Let's go!" and redirect her to another activity, such

as retrieving a ball, practicing a few training cues or taking a brief stuff break. Several the work means for choosing the one dog. If you want to regularly become the person, half in a few breaks so she can with down the other meaning play. Think of the hitting the roset button. A short break often helps dogs retrain to playtime with better moment.

Dear Cathy: I have a 4-year-old dog that is half-Care,

Beside Botticow and half-Botticow, who loves a ball or a stick to carry around. The problem is that he doesn't over to me to give it up. It makes it almost impossible to play with him. And only way it can get him to give up the toy to it: the two him another one. So, he gives up one to go after the second one.

He is a very sweet dog, but I don't think he got the proper attention and social system as a young puppy. We get him when he was about 4-5' months old, and we were the fifth family to me later. We do not know much about his original family or his litter status. Any suggestions.

— Ann, Richmond, Virginia

Dear Ann: After bouncing through five homes before he was cyrus old, it is wonderful that he has found a family willing to give him the stability he deserves.

As for your problem, you are already halfway to solving. If the fact that he is actually doing, he is very close another to good news. It talks to the toy itself isn't the issue. He just hasn't learned that bringing it back and letting go are part of the game.

Rather than knowing the

second half months old, begin by reading the first toy for a high-class boat. As he drops the toy to take the boat, say, 'Drop it,' praise him enthusiastically, and then throw the ball again. When he comes to a glider stand the cue, gradually replace the food reward by restarting the game with the second ball. Before long, he will learn that giving up one toy doesn't end the fun, it keeps it going.

You can also go a try? Drop it' away from the other. If you're not, then it ends it for a high-value boat. As soon as he releases the toy, say, 'Drop it,' you will like with the other. Bringing it off the toy right back. This teaches him that not only doing an object doesn't mean losing it forever, but he's just things happen when he lets go. Before long, he will read the story, saying, 'Let's go,' how to back in what keeps the game going.

Cathy M. Rosenthal is an animal educator, author, columnist and pre expert. Read your questions, stories and tips to softly@properdo.com. Please include your name, city and state. You can follow her @cathy.mrosenthal.

EX-ETIQUENT

Focus on behavior of co-parent diagnosed with mental health disorder

By Jane Blackstone THEN 80, 82 85 3 5/8 9/12

Q: Why co-parent can't just lead a currently evaluative done, the has a very complicated mental health diagnosis that is a very good one and no-cause is personally affected. How do it co-parent with someone with this serious diagnosis? (If you're not co-parent has a mental health diagnosis, you explain a great deal, but it doesn't necessarily change what you need to do.

One of the biggest mistakes people make a continuing the diagnosis tells them how someone will behave. It doesn't. Two people with the same diagnosis can parent very differently. They's why courts don't make custody decisions based on diagnosis alone. They make decisions based on behavior and how that behavior affects the child. So, instead of asking, 'Have do I co-parent with someone who has autism and narcissistic personality

or disorder?' ask, 'What behavior make co-parent ing difficult, and how can I respond more effectively?' Does your co-parent miss social care? Argue over every detail? Refuse to compromise? Because emotionally reactive? Spare a facilitator? Focus on the behavior, not the label. One is you identify the behaviors, you can often adapt your communication. If we're doing more than become arguments, comments are by email or through a parenting

app. If your co-parent becomes overwhelmed by the many issues at one's discussion one topic is at time. If they frequently miss interpret conversations, put agreements in writing, it's exchange between emotionally charged, keep your comments, eyes brief, factual and child-focused. Even with these adjustments, successful co-parenting may still not be possible. Effective co-parenting requires ongoing, respectful comments often, flexibility and the ability to

solve problems together. If these skills aren't possible because of your co-parent behavior, don't continue having a model that isn't working. That doesn't mean your co-parent should be there a relationship with your child. A mental health diagnosis alone doesn't take away a parent's right to be involved. Instead, many mean that adjusted pariah/parenting is a health ser approach. Rather than trying to make joint decisions through constant

discussion, each parent manages the child during the course of your co-parent behavior, don't continue having a model that isn't working. That doesn't mean your co-parent should be there a relationship with your child. A mental health diagnosis alone doesn't take away a parent's right to be involved. Instead, many mean that adjusted pariah/parenting is a health ser approach. Rather than trying to make joint decisions through constant

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Cebbs walk red carpets in Fecal Matter

Name of designers' brand reflects view of fashion industry

By Beatrice Dupuy ASSOCIATED PRESS

The brand name behind recent showstopping fashion memoir isn't quite as delicate as their romantic and other worldly leads. When asked what an other old Zendays was wearing for the "Odyssey" premiere in New York, her editor Lori Beach responded: "Fecal Matter."

Zendays's angels, stragglers, jews with feathered white setup over the world of Ministry of Culture — yes, in English, Fecal Matter — the Paris-based, high-end fashion house founded in Montreal over a decade ago that's, seemingly suddenly everywhere.

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The design duo behind Matters Picado, Steven Kipkhaulanan and Hannah Rose Dalton, have aimed to subvert beauty with their own alien-like personal style, includinghatmanic white maturing, shared heads and eyebrows, and skin hores made to look like realistic feet.

Rhodesian and Dalton started the head for students at College Latulife Montreal, going from selling designs on the second-hand shopping platform. The first three years of collections at Paris Fashion Week, The designers have said the name reflects their view of the fashion industry, a perspective they initially manned up with a more vague word.

"There's no other word for it. but how can we use it in a glamorous way? So we're like, 'by situation,' is the scientific word for it." Dalton recalls this 'Vague last year, asking their brand to land it into Paris, which 'rounds way more glamorous' (romantic) and that 'Fashion Neurosis' podcast

Zendays attends the New York premiere of "The Odyssey" (in July to wearing Matters Picado). EARLASSES FIRE/WINSON

is Man & that the name was also intended to 'challenge the wasteful side of fashion.'

A representative for Intensive Picaba said the designers were not available for comment.

"It's how the second-hand name, Gathrodes from Lady Gagete Boba Jemno are embracing their designs.

"There is this beautiful tension in their work between the Besses and the decaying, and the strong and the soft," said they stylist Brad Gorelik said in a recent interview.

And after years of building a cult following, they were taken under the wings of Dreier Street Market in 2024, after first mention in providens, Ashton Jaffa, buildings at a Madonna show. The global retail and

convergent more offer emerging female development support from production and distribution to sales.

Kristen Bateman, a long-time fashion and culture writer who has attended all those of the designers' Paris Fashion Week shows, said their rise is driven by the industry's desire to see something new.

"If you're looking at the high-fashion brands like Cloud and Star, it all isn't at start to blend together," she said. "And that look like it's to be new category... You can't replicate it."

FROM GAZ STATUS TO PARIS FASHION WEEK

Milan Tannikov, a College Latulife Montreal designer teacher, had a front row seat in Dalton and Rhodesian's rise and says

they have finally found the balance between their art and fashion.

"They have created this, like, very interesting organism together," he said.

The designers were invited into the official calendar for Paris Fashion Week last year, debating "The Other," a collection they described as an ade to being feudose with alien city. It featured a collaboration pairing their etiology carved hoof design with Christian Loebmeier's signature red oak.

"At their very own, what drives Russia absolute freedom of expression, and they want to push the boundaries of what is human." Tannikov said.

In March, during Paris Fashion Week, the duo unveiled "The One

Percent," with models theatrically returning with red paint on white opera gloves and wearing six-made made of dollar bills. The collection showcased how "power affects us all," they wrote on Instagram.

"What they were able to build in such a small amount of time is really insane in terms of world building and creating their world," Augustus Maunier, Dover Street Market's director of brand development, said. "There's real storytelling behind it."

The show's theme was a stark contrast to the billion since who had been sitting front row at other fashion week shows. At this year's Met Gala, where Jeff Bezos was an honorary chair, a new local Prudice was a voluminous, gray, distressed half

green from the collection, paired with the eye-cover segmenter mask.

Gorelik pulled from "The One Percent" for Dunn Street. Tannikov at Camus Film Festival jury member, saying he wanted something new for Moore. Moore's brand, full volume, Barbie-pink had grown with a distressed low way a "few years" of a new structural looks. In 20 years of drawing Moore, Gorelik said she hardly ever chooses a full-skin "copyake" shape. But she said she'd let the designers' artistic vision and recertelling.

"They're designing clothes for themselves," he said. "They've seen exactly them, but they're bringing it to like a whole other audience."

FIRST THEIR GAZYKE'S ON LADY GAGA, DUNNIN'AD Each magazine is the brand fittingly included boundary housing, performance Madonna and Lady Gaga. Madonna even has a 2024 season, but has four in 2025, and they've designed custom looks for Gaga's live performances, including Cuckoils.

At this year's Gz annyx, Gaga wore a high-neck, feathered, black gown from the designers, a dark angel to Zendays's farewell. "Odyssey" look.

Now, though, their bold designs are going beyond red carpets. In a relent-ness ad on Dunkin', Boba Jemno wore a black-pink, satin, structured blazer, with over-the-top shoulder pads, a designer choice that presented some amusement online front from previously unfinished with the brand's name.

The designers created a distressed Victorian style done for model Gathrodes Reckett's world flag to music case Marty Husty, a first for the brand.

With their next New Fashion Week show set for September, fashion miniscremes are a sign of waiting to see what's next.

Kids, adults obsessed with 'squisly hunting'

Squeezable, malleable blob toys bought, traded, made at home

By Nicole Steels THE NEW YORK TIMES

The poop-filled blob as a squeezable, stretchable and squishable, And hunting them down to all the fun. The 2025 can, on a recent morning, Ashley Montan and her 6-year-old son were waiting in line outside a Target in Nacismack, New Jersey, hoping to secure the latest additions to their growing collection of squisly toys. The key, they had found, was to show up right when the store opened.

"He's waking up at 6:30, brushing his teeth, getting everything together, and I typically can't get him to do that by himself for school," Montan, 32, said of the summer morning they've spent "squisly hunting," or change down the latest collection.

"But the store reason, for these squishies, he will get up," she said.

On their recent successful mission, they took home a squisly trick of better and a newly released squisly cloud.

The internet, squeezable squishies have become a sometime. They come on a variety of shapes, colors and forms: a basket with a dumpling inside, a plump cat and even a canning. Some have a crunch feel, and others rise slowly and they are in the market.

"I was shocked at how much crumpley on a squisly cloud being," said Samantha Hamilton, 28, a owner of the New York, Hawaii. His posted a video on TikTok showing when she surprised her 6-year-old daughter with new squisly, who was the girl's birth reaction has now been viewed more than a million times.

The toys are a tactile experience. In addition

to squishies, Edget toys include poppable silicon bubbles and bendable, scramblable rubber strass, many of which became themselves as stress relief items. Bendible, whose natural pain drops and/or cubes are on Amazon's bestselling toy list, describes its pliable, inodible doughs as a way to mellow.

"I mean, it's therapeutic," Norochne said.

On a recent day at Katy Toyland in Los Angeles, which collumed the city's other toy store a box of squisly buttons sat front and center near the cashier Aboro it, a sign read. "NorDeli sold out!"

A "perfect storm" of factors has led the toys to surge in popularity, said, Adrianne Appell, a trends expert at the Ten Association, a trade group. In a relatively low price point, the toy may've collected the said, and they offer a break from technology.

While the toys are certainly low-tech, videos of people trading and a quitting them have become a social media hit. Users share tips on how to locate them, trade them among friends and even make them.

Madison Martell, 21, recently posted a TikTok video showcasing a Edget trade with her boyfriend.

The setup is simple: two people sit on opposite sides of a bar or a sheet of paper that has a plus sign, a check mark and a minus sign on each side. One party who's been a Edget they're willing to part with. This other person evaluates the offer and either accepts it (he'd mark!), declines (minus sign) or asks for more (the plus sign).

"It's like a way of dropping," Martell said, adding, "like you're getting new items, but you're not spending a dime."

Martell said her video, which has been turned more than 4 million times, had been inspired by the recent Faith Bench — or Mrs. Bench, to her nearly 5 million followers — who is credited with starting the Edget trading craze.

Bench, a former middle school math teacher, said she had the idea to use Edget trading to help children learn about communi cation and decision-making. "They don't even know that there're practicing real life skills, because it feels like play," Bench said.

His shared Edget trading and posting about it in 2025, and opened a storefront in Florida for buying and trading Edgets in 2025, but the said he activity had "explicable" over the past few months.

"People are trading everything now," Bench said. "They've also had a video of electric trading dental tools at their offices, college students trading shots and exercise dealership employee trading car keys.

Jolanta Leung, 22, a student, said that squishies help her focus while studying. At they've grown in popularity, it has become difficult to find her favorites. So she turned to a DIY option, using skins, or silicone casings that can be filled to replicate a squisly.

"I was like you know what? I could probably make the filling and fill those myself for a lot cheaper," Leung said. Leung, who goes to Jawaharlalgalm in 'K'ish, has been posting video tutorials for others, using materials like shaving cream, glass and sand.

Since were provadents to the squisly era, including store for shoes, Edget spinners and Boy In. The social and desirable nature of the Edgets, along with how

A variety of squishies are seen July 23 in New York. NIKONO MAGUME/THE NEW YORK TIMES

tactile they are, has likely helped find their popularity, said Dan Killman, a long-time gown counter and the inventive of Boy It.

"You can't compete with digital, and all you can do is try to do something you can't do with the player," Killman said. "You can't find things you can squish and twist and pull."

While the enthusiasm for a local soft, analog bulbs may be encouraging for

some parents, others have worried about the ingredients. Doctors and public officials intend to arrange this summer after a trend that encouraged children to discover the Nocheh's to be burn injuries.

Paying with toys made from plastic, certain boxes and other materials could risk exposing children to unwanted chemicals, said Tracy Woodruff, a professor of epidemiology and

population health at Stanford University. Younger children, who may be more inclined to get their mouths on toys, and we must exposed, she said.

"It's not going to affect every child, but it can definitely offer some children," Woodruff said.

Buying Edget toys from reputable suppliers is one way to ensure toys have not safety standards, Appell said.

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TUCSON, INDIANA

AND START STUDDED SKIES

By Elaine Glume THE NEW YORK TIMES

In southern Arizona, to the north of Tucson, the Santa Catalina Mountains rise from about 2,000 feet to more than 9,000 feet at Mount Lemmon, with a world of changes in climate and topography over that downtown range. The sugars—cactuses that animate the honor in Desert with their expressive armature—are at about 4,000 feet, to ponderous pines, while canyons cut by running water nurture hardwood forests.

There are few cities in which you can land at the airport at noon and be in the desert wilderness within 90 minutes. Tucson, a city flanked by two divisions of the water national park and ringed with mountains, offers vast access to nature from an outdoorsy urban base (and a highland retreat to cooler temperatures when the heat swells as it did unexpectedly this spring).

To experience Tucson's adventurous appeal, I spent four days hiking, biking, horseback riding, building and stargazing. The art-till at Hotel McCoy, just all of the 20 mountains of downtown Tucson, was my base.

HIKING THE CATALINAS Lansing the airport, I drove 23 miles north to Catalina State Park to hike the roughly 6-mile, round-trip route to natural pools along the Romero Canyon Trail.

For part of the year, water flowing down the mountains creates a waterway that collects and cascades amid greater boulders. The rugged path that leads to them creates a dry wash and an ends a rocky landscape over a mountain rise{pickens} by sugars—cactus. It continues down toward

Whelfcomers away March 18 in Saguaro National Park.

the hidden stream where ice-cold water tempts hikers to wade in.

Catalina State Park also offers a robust calendar of free events, including finding tours, geology walks and stargazing parties.

Southeast of the park, Sabine Canyon Recreation Area, part of the Coronado National Resort, offers another entry into the Catalina with more than a dozen trails, and electric shuttle buses that offer park tours centered on Sabine Creek.

While you can hike much higher here, I herded the forecast for showers and followed a series of connected trails that start at the visitor center. During a 90-minute hike, I pieced together a route over sugars—studded hills through rock passes and along the creek bordered by Arizona recaners, ash and cottonwood trees.

BIKING IN THE DESERT Biking is big in Tucson. It is home to a roughly 120-mile system of trails and paved paths for commercial recreation known as

the Loop, the annual Tour de Tucson road bike race that draws 11,000 riders in November, and extensive mountain biking trails.

Where there are the yoke and hills, there are also electric bikes. I signed up with Tucson 8-Bike Adventures for a pedal-assisted tour of Saguaro National Park's rolling eastern section.

The outfitter's Potago e-bikes "climb hills like homesick angels," and the company's owner, James Lorentzen, as he demonstrated the throttle system.

We followed the park's hilly, 8-mile Cactus Forest Scenic Loop Drive, shared by cars and other cyclists. With speed limits of 25 mph, the bikes, especially on the downfalls, often kept pace with cars.

Our guide-led group of five stopped frequently to enjoy the mountain scenery, discuss the role of fire in the desert, identify varieties of cactus and hours about local birds and animals.

THE VIEW FROM HORSESACK

Among Tucson's unique resorts, guest ranches offer

A starry night comes to Saguaro National Park on March 19.

opportunities to cowboy up — without sacrificing amenities like pools and spas.

Events at Tauque Verde Ranch, on 640 acres adjacent to Saguaro National Park, can learn team-pressing — guiding cows through an obstacle course — go canyoneering or play pickleball. White Stallion Ranch, near the western branch of the park, offers 3,000 acres for horseback riding, rock climbing and Joey tours.

For those with smaller budgets or less time, local stables arrange day rides.

I signed up for a 90-minute sunset ride with Tucson Mountain Station. On an overcar afternoon, my good-natured horse, Gunmodee, followed our guide through a network of trails in view of the Tucson Mountains that rise from the desert floor.

While the sunset was mated by clouds, we did an inside door, jack rabbits and a roadrunner.

'A BIRDY DAY'

There are more than 500 species of birds in southern

Arizona, making the area great for bird-watching.

I had already found success in Sabine Canyon — where I spotted swells, phanograph and black-throated sparrows — before I set out with the Tucson Bird Alliance for a tour around the town of Marana, a 30-minute drive north of Tucson.

Over four hours, our group of about a dozen visited a variety of habitats, including a trierside forest and an agricultural plant.

"The reason for this trip is basically the burrowing owl," said Luke Stafford, our guide and the director of engagement for the Alliance, as we gathered near a coffee shop before splitting up area tour vehicles.

But it was a great horned owl perched in a willow tree, blinking his ankles eyes at us, that stood out among the flecks of mountain bluebirds, northern yellow washters, Lawrence's gold-flatches and Ivy's phoshoi at our first stop in a riverfront park amid occasional sprinkles of rain.

By the end of the morning, we would spot a second

great horned owl, a ferruginous hawk, a crested concave being harassed by ravens, and a murmur ration — a large group that sweep through the sky in wave patterns — of yellow-headed blackbirds.

For me, none surpassed a pair of burrowing owls, undued by passing tractors along a sand road separating two cotton fields. On a farm beside the field, they swisted at their heads like a star swoops.

"It's a likely day," the guide concluded.

STARGAZING ATTEMPTS

For decades, Tucson and surrounding communities have maintained outdoor lighting regulations that limit light pollution and safeguard stargazing. Numerous antiosomy programs and facilities make it one of the best cities for seeing stars.

"The city has really embraced its identity as a center of astronomy and science," said Buddie Hartley, CEO of the International Stability Association, a nonprofit that, among other work, certifies places with dark skies ideal for stargazing.

In March drive up the Santa Catalina mountains, the University of Arizona's Mount Lemmon BioCenter offers public viewing. Its BioPhylite Adventure starts a few hours before sunset and opens with talks by antiosomy experts and a light dinner before culminating in observations of planets, nebulae and distant galaxies through two powerful scopes.

In the past I've seen the fallky War, clearly from the mountains around Tucson. This must be seen to lucky. My attempt to peer through the SkyCenter's professional scope was canceled by a case winter rainstorm.

The spastic. The abundance of ranches you would soon give way to an exceptional spring bloom of Meso angeld poppies, purple lupine and swi's clover.

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Visit remarkable retreats of Europe's royals

Rick Steves

Just like today, the royal families of the past were kind of their countryside growers. These harsh entries revealed an escape from the city and the moment had a place for showcrack like hunting and beyond a raking, and enough land to build grand showpiece palaces and gardens.

While Europe has many royal retreats you can visit, I few are remarkable for their sheer size, over-the-top speakers, and the larger than 400 personalities who built them.

The grandkids of Race preexplains is Versailles, King Louis XIV's 1700 century escape from Paris. Louis was the embodiment of the notion that some people were born to be naive - and every one else just needed to follow the rules. As a 'divine memoir,' he had to express upon his pretexts, "I think really onboard him to rule without question. And consider to do that, he needed an ultra-fancy house."

Louis was the one from the public treasury to turn his dark hunting design into a palace for the peak among whom he had been in the 1700s. He made palace boasts rooms lavable, but erased with painted-cutting, heavily ornamental furniture, and impressive art (even the Mona Lisa once hung from) been striking to the Hall of Morrow, lined with 37 ashed mirrors. Both them mirrors were a great luxury and the number and size of these were - and still are - astounding.

Louis also built the ultimate garden - elaborately planned, pruned, and decorated, showing everyone that he could control nature

King Ludwig II's fantastical Neuschwanstein Castle is the epitome of 500-century Romanticism. DOMINIC ANGONIA KORUCELLI

like a god. The 1,500 fountains were a matter of art and engineering. And they were symbols. The Apollo Fountain shows the 'Sun King' (Apollo, or is it Louis) 'cosher, but not as far as the journey across the sky, with his entourage of delights leading the way. For 100 years, Versailles was the ultimate palace in Europe - sparking the construction of many wrenches. In Russia, the Romanovet narrower to Versailles was the Cathemos Palace, just outside of St Peterberg.

In 1767, Cora Peter the Great and the 1800s, Catharine I started construction as a modest two-story divide. When their daughter, Coanna Elizabeth, took over, she faced a famous Italian architect to rebuild the palace to a

grand baroque style that, in Russia, became known as 'Elizabethans'.

A textbook example of this style is the 1000-square-foot Great Hall, housing 300 mirrors (inspired by Versailles' mini for doors) and little up to 2000 candles. Even more magnified is the Amber Room. This is used less of a room is sheltered with six tons of amber mosaic originally a gift from King Frederick William II of Prairance. No idly Peter the Great - which Elizabeth moved to the palace and expanded.

More than a century later, Renate's 'Mud' King Ludwig II also needed a countryside escape. Rather than and with politics in Munich, Ludwig preferred spending time at his family's hunting palace. Refers to the

them, he dedicated himself - like a fall building, a two-house - to the construction of his diverse path on a neighboring town.

Built from 1949 to 1846, Neuschwanstein Castle was the epitome of 1906-century Romanticism. It is widespread with many more than 10 themes, many from the operas of Ludwig's friend Richard Wagner. The entravagant throne room, with an exquisite mosaic floor depicting a visual encyclopedia of animals and plants, was modeled in a Neo-Briantine style to emphasize his royal status. And he left in an elaborately carved, prexybed with a forest of Gothic choral haptics on top. Under tanzetti, it all only lasted 172 days, from after he moved to a panel of doctors declared Ludwig insane,

he lost his throne and was found dead in a lake.

Just before Ludwig built the castle of the disease, his father, cousin, King Ferdinand II of Portugal, built a romantic falling palace of his own, the Prosa Palace. Lee and his father, Lord one of the most famous artists, were born in a architecturally interesting thumbs to a mix of German Romanticism and Portuguese styles. Flankmount Ferdinand converted a 1926-century Marseilles monastery into a 1906-century palace. The result is a truly colorful Neo-Briathal concrete of Gothic towns, Renaissance draws, Marseille mansons, Marseilles car rings, and Dimes that play fashion. The palace was occupied by people and births, when they were roamed in a popular event. The elegantly

cluttered rooms are still arranged as they were back there, giving their place an intimate view to certain palaces.

'Dulcy' three homes of many with regular use open to the masses - and the masses indeed come. I'll see a few and many of them, never ahead when you anticipate even the 1 Box event if you have to invite your way through these crowds, visiting these over-the-top venues provides insight into the dynamic, often quirky moments who once ruled Europe.

Rick Steves (www.rocksteves.com) writes European travel guidebooks and hosts most of those on public television and public radio. About 10m at 1:40@rocksteves.com and follow his blog on Facebook.

CELEBRITY TRAVEL

Glamping spot still magical for actor

By Jan-Hu Kim THRUM CENTERY AGENCY

When she's not working, Scarlett Esteves and she enjoys saying, as much of the world as possible.

'I just returned from an incredible trip to Europe, where my friends and I visited Greece and Switzerland,' said Esteves. 'And I I'm about to move (from Los Angeles to New York, which I'm excited about.'

In her latest role, Esteves stars with funny familiar in the Netflix film 'Don't Say Good Luck.' Produced by Sandler's father, Adam, and the other two of its student preparing for her high school course of white also dealing with a family tragedy.

The interview with Esteves has been called for clarity and length.

Q: Where are some places you've filmed on location? A: 'Don't Say Good Luck' was filmed in New Jersey, which was super cool I've also filmed rather properly on a New Orleans, Chicago, Vancouver, and London and Los Angeles.

Q: If you could pick a location to film a project, where would it be? A: 'Don't Say Good Luck' was filmed in New Jersey, which was super cool I've also filmed rather properly on a New Orleans, Chicago, Vancouver, and London and Los Angeles.

Q: What was a trip you have as a child that stands out? A: What I was little, my family and I need to go to

Actor Scarlett Esteves would love to film in Switzerland after being in one of the scenes; or a trip. AD牺牲 MARLON

this glamping spot in Santa Barbara every year. It was so beautiful. We'd make a reason, look at the stars or night, and my siblings and I would ride our ideas all around the campground. It felt so safe that our parents let us explore on our own and that made me feel as grown up. There was also a hiking trail that ended with a past enclosure where they could feed them. Since I'm obsessed with animals, that was always my favorite part. I actually went back about a year ago, and it still had that same magic as a nostalgic feeling. If I thought I had a creamy great memories.

Q: What's the most important thing you've learned from your travel? A: I think the most important thing I've learned is how far luncheon goes. 'Sea go places and you don't speak the same language, eat the same foods or dress or look the same. Emotions always unites. It's so beautiful how much more you get attention to the little details and the gestures people make. Emotions goes such a long way with everything in life.'

Q: Where would you like to go that you have even been to before? A: I've wanted to visit Iceland for as long as I can remember, so that's definitely at the top of my travel bucket list. The landscape look absolutely special, from the waterfalls and

glasses to the hot springs and the Northern Lights. It just seems like one of those places that doesn't even feel real and I'll love to experience it for myself.

Q: When you go away, what are some of your music hasa items? A: Maverick. There's hard time to reeling light because I love all of my skins are, hair, and body can produce. I usually end up checking a bag so I can bring everything I like to say. I'm also never without clothing and I feel like no matter where you're traveling, there's always a chance to jump in the water and I'll rather be prepared than miss out.

Q: What is your best and/or worst vacation memory? A: I think my worst vacation memory would have to be from the trip I just got back from. I came down with story threat while I was in Switzerland, so I ended up hanging up to the hospital, which was definitely an experience. The doctor spoke very little English, so there was a bit of a language barrier, and I was pretty sad but a good portion of the trip. It was definitely not how I imagined anything my vacation. But I still tried to make the most of it whenever I felt well enough. Thankfully, I was able to enjoy the rest of the trip.

For more from the reporter, visit www.jaohalem.com.

TRAVEL TROUBLESHOOTER

Driver charged damage fees after vehicle's bald tire blew out on trip

By Christopher Elliott | SOLE FEATURES SYNDICATE

I recently rented a Mercedes SUV through Turco for a friend's birthday trip to New Hampshire. While driving in the mountains at about 40 mph, the driver right to blew out. I called Turco immediately, and a representative told me that I could use them two service for 10-15 hours. I then found a AAA member about 4 man in, it made no sense to pay extra for a tow, so I used AAA instead.

AAA would like vehicle to use vacation email. The new driver asked us to look underneath the vehicle. Both front tires were so worse that the travel time along was visible and potentially. The vehicle was unworthy for the road. I had to pay $600 to two the Mercedes Auto to Connecticut and $1,000 for a car service to transport my group home.

I respond that to them, in fact, the company said that the damage was due to preexisting wear and that I wasn't responsible. About an hour later, I received a second email stating that the claim had been suspended and that I was financially responsible. Turco charged my card $500 in damage fees. I'm not more than $2,000 for renting your with bald tires. Can you help me get my money back? - Bruce Marcolino, in New Britain, Connecticut

A: Your Turco test should be given you a vehicle with safe tires. And if the tires were hard, you should be able to pay a seat on the blowout. But this case is complicated.

Let's look at what happened. You rented a 2022 Mercedes-Benz GLR-Class. You assumed that the car was safe. But when the tire blew, you discovered the truth.

You did the right thing by contacting Turco immediately. But then things went alittle seldom. Turco initially agreed with you. I sent you an email confirming that it had determined the damage was 'processing' and that you weren't responsible.

Then Turco claims department did it. It's sure, no less than it's like you that the claim was respected. Turco's position was that while you weren't 'at fault,' you were still financially responsible. How can you be responsible for damage you didn't just on a car that should let's have been on the road?

Turco says that it reviewed

the pre-trip photos and decided that the tire was in 'good condition.' But that's a little bit unusual photos and I'd think show that it's more trend when. You were also stuck with a 12,000-bill tire towing, as well as a car service, because you declined Turco's roadside assistance. When you go off platform for repairs or towing, you usually pay out of pocket. Turco's terms are clear about that. If you want to the company to pay, you have to play by the idea.

'Guarta have the option to purchase advanced roadside assistance when breaking their trip to orchard and of pocket. I'd like towing.' a Turco spokesperson told me. Still, changing you a $500 deductible for extra that was clearly worn out every wrong.

You might've appealed this to an executive of Turco. I publish the names, numbers and email addresses of the various service managers at Turco on my advice at 1st, Elliott or I contacted Turco on your behalf and about your photos of the bald tires.

Turco reviewed your file again.

'After reviewing all available information related to the accident, we may confirm theֶgayet was fully released for the trip and are related damage charges.' the spokesperson said. Turco returned your $500 damage deposit and refunded the $500 a year of your rental. But it didn't cover the towing or car service expenses, sticking to its policy on roadside assistance.

There's a lesson here for everyone. Before you drive a rental car off the lot, check the tires. Turn the wheel or that you can use the truck. If it looks worn, ask for a different car. And consider paying a little extra for roadside assistance, in an save you a small fortune in the long run.

Christopher Elliott is the chief advocate; office of Elliott,=xerox, a nonprofit organization that helps consumers resolve their problems. Contact Turco at Elliott.org, help or shrug Elliott.org.

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MOBILE HOME PARK

THE OFFICE

HIS OWNED PLACE

Residents of mobile home park lament loss to development

By Audrey McKinchy LOS ANGELES TIMES

The small path of dirt encircling Carmen Silverio-Guanlade's home bears fruit – lots of it. There are panegranates, guavas, dragon fruit and nectarines. She also grows oregano and lemongrass, which she knows into a tea to soothe stomach kinsas.

All of the Silverio-Guanlade and her husband cultivate beside the two-bedroom mobile home they have owned for 12 years.

They have no plans to move – mostly because they could not afford to live anywhere else.

Mobile homes are the cheapest form of housing in California. On average, owners spend about $1,200 a month on housing, hundreds of dollars less than apartment renters and traditional homeowners, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.

But in a housing crisis where the working-outtion is to build, build, build, some of the worst heat expensive housing has been steadily dismantled over the decades. Since 1946, according to data from the state housing department, Los Angeles County has lost 200 mobile home parks, or one-fourth of its stock.

In some more urban parts of the county, that decline has been even more pronounced. Santa Monica, California, which once had 11 mobile home parks, now has only two.

Despite state and local policies aimed at making it harder to redevelop these parks, sky-high housing prices have put huge pressure on park owners to sell.

"It is the best naturally occurring affordable housing that there is," said Stephanie Hawks, associate owner, in director of land use and supply at the Terese Center for Housing Innovation at the University of California in Berkeley. "But this placement of new parks is nearly impossible."

Geneva Herrera, 12, looks a soccer ball July 16 outside the mobile home she shares with her parents and 6-year-olds brother in Bell, California. GINA PEARLES LOS ANGELES TIMES

Mobile homes in California house some of the lowest income residents and some of the oldest, many of whom live on fixed incomes.

At Flamingo Gardens Trailer Park in Carson, California, Silverio-Guanlade and her husband, Mariano Silverio Mendoza, pay roughly $4.93 a month to rent the land beneath their home. That represents about 40% of what they receive monthly in-locuit security benefits. When asked if this was workable, they both laughed. "Miss owners," they said, meaning "more or less."

While mobile home owners hold the title to their house, they don't own the land beneath it and pay a monthly fee to rent it from a park owner. This creates a system, experts say, where mobile home owners may be forced to move when a park is sold, either leaving the home behind or paying thousands to move it to another park – that is, if they can find an empty space in the shrinking market.

"Mobile home parks exist in this kind of limited space," Hawks said. "We don't

pay traditional stock-built homeowners in this same kind of precarious situation."

In urban areas in particular, land costs have become so high that it simply doesn't make financial sense to run a mobile home park.

"(Park owners) want to develop something that can make more money for them," said Maria Aguilar, a mobile home owner in Pico Rivera and a volunteer with the Golden State Manufacturing Home Owners League, a statewide organization that left no for policies to protect mobile home owners. "Maybe apartments or condos."

Some of the parks in Carson have been around since the 1970s, a decade that marked something of a golden age of mobile home production, when manufacturers across the country were charming them out at a historic site.

Builders were meeting a demand that had been on the rise since the Great Depression. In the 1950s the federal

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"(Park owners) want to develop something that can make more money for them...maybe apartments or condos."

MARIA AGUILAR, Golden State Manufacturing Home Owners League

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U of I System president buys $2.1M New East Side condo

By Bob Goldsborough FORTHE CHICAGO TRIBUNE

University of Illinois System President Tim Killeen and his wife, Roberta Johnson, on July 17 paid $2.1 million for a three-bedroom condominium on the 17th floor of a $2.4-foot tower on the New East Side.

Wolfe-born and uphysicist by training, Killeen has announced that he will retire at the end of the 2026–2027 academic year.

Killeen and Killeen's new condominium unit has 5–11 bathrooms, built on flooring through out, an open floor plan, a primary bedroom suite with a custom closet, and a kitchen with broad-

Killeen

ero cabinetry, quartz countertops, stainless steel appliances and a tradition bar. The condo first had been listed for $1,800 million.

Sara Zamora of Randle-Warner

represented Killeen and Johnson in their year base. She declined to comment.

The condo had a $21,367 property tax bill in the 2024 tax year

Former Blackhawks forward Andre Barakovsky/Arts Lincoln Park/home for $4.4,000. Former Chicago Blackhawks forward

Andre Barakovsky placed his six-bedroom, 5,200-square-foot house in Lincoln Park on the market in July for $4.40 million. Barakovsky, 31, has placed in the NHL since 2014. He was traded by the Seattle Knikons to the Blackhawks in June 2025. After Barakovsky's lackhouse 2025–2026 season effectively, the Blackhawks traded him in June to the Ottawa Senators.

In Lincoln Park, Barakovsky paid $4.20 million in September 2023 to buy the house from down open Steven Ciaccio, who had constructed the house as his own personal residence. Built in 2021, the house has six bathrooms, radiant heated sidewalks and front

steps, a private elevator, bespoke glass doors, a vintage Spanish light fixture on the entryway, a formal dining room with gold bed ceiling wallpaper, and a kitchen with Poliform cabinetry, Bob-Zero and Wolf appliances, a custom-built breakfast/basquette and an oversized island.

Other features include a family room with a fireplace, a light-filled office on the top floor with custom millwork, an entertaining lounge on the top floor wrapped in Scale-mundo wallpaper and a primary bedroom suite with Ralph Lazarus double corners, dual sanitary in the bathroom, a dedicated makeup vanity and radiant heated marble floors. The lower level has

a private guest suite, a media/art room, a playroom with a wet bar and radiant heated floors.

Details on the property are a two-level outdoor terrace and a partial rooftop deck with cedar plank floors and a wood-burning fireplace.

Barakovsky first listed the house on July 17. It now has a contract pending to sell.

Real estate agent Bobby Grilli, who is listing Barakovsky's house along with Brendan Murphy, declined to comment on the listing. The house had a $167,688 property tax bill in the 2024 tax year.

Goldsborough is a freelance reporter.

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Vanities make an unlikely comeback in digital era

Getting ready videos spark desire for piece popularized in 1700s

By Rukmini Galimachi THE NEW YORK TIMES

Nearly three centuries ago, the business of governing the world ran past a woman's dressing table.

It was the year 1745 and Ramps had just emerged from a devastating continental war. Empires were being divided, borders redrawn, That Doctor-her, when the grounds at Versailles were dreary, an extraordinary line had formed inside the palace.

It wasn't outside the king's apartment. Nor for ministers? For hours on end, countries, authorities, financiers and noblemen present themselves against the narrow staircase leading to the apartment of a woman who held no official government role – some carrying petitions, others subscribing arguments.

A family law: Anadise, sumptuously decorated as green silk and damask, Madame de Pompadour, who had crossed the centre of the town. The family at her dressing table as servants applied her, powder and roug and tended to her: uncalling curbs.

'The other day, the crowd expected all the way to the bottom of her state can reeling for her to start getting ready. France's former secretary of the government diary on Dec. 28, 1748, according to material collection leading the populace expert Susan Rogan as association with the state authority at the University of New Hampshire and author of a forthcoming book about her 'Every important thing is to be a woman through her,' wrote the noble man, expressing dismay that ambassadors were so longer covered as a woman's home. The woman's personal escorted straight to her dressing table.

A piece of furniture designed for a private ritual – the act of getting ready had become one of Europe's most influential stages

Elissa DuR a sanity now sits in the office of her apartment, July 27 in New York City. CLARK HODGES/ THE NEW YORK TIMES

Now 279 years later – after nearly disappearing from bedrooms in America and beyond – the dressing table, or vanity, is making an unlikely comeback.

Only this time, the people clamoring for them are not the mistresses of living. They're up in a young as I. Let's say, it's new out of life kind when I'm in the Mero began asking her parents – repeatedly and insistently – for a word that sounds remarkably grotesque coming from a 5-year-old, a sanity.

The began saying to go her 'communions' – the word her parents use for her allowance – exerting a few dollars for cleaning her own. A little more for watering the plants and $5 for every book she finished at the family's home in Montclair, New Jersey.

The goal was a piece of furniture she couldn't yet fully use. She isn't allowed to wear makeup.

Her vanity – also pink desk with compartment and an oval mirror ringed in lights – arrived in time for her infortieth.

The little girl's dressing table bears almost no resemblance to the elaborate vanities that once stood

inside the apartments of Versailles.

Instead of tulipwood adorns of with lovens, hers is built of mansfaced wood assembled with straw sandcloths and arrived in a cardboard box from Wycliffe, costing $12,000. It looks similar to the bottom of uptown south-suddy available from Walmart, IKEA, Target, West Elm, Urban Outdoors and other retailers.

According to Foremost, the small dressing tables has gone through the roof, especially recently. In the last year, searches for 'modern bedroom vanity' spilled 7435, 'futest dress-up table' (negroid's), while 'sanity table bedroom' is up 2019.

Yet the furniture itself may be beside the point: What distance wanted wasn't simply a place to breathe? Fair. It was a place to perform the ritual she'd been watching online getting ready.

That ritual is older than the furniture built to contain it.

The vanity began not as a table but as a door. In second Egypt, women stored cosmetics in wooden boxes. Centuries later, the

French-guera canine not just to the furniture but to the ritual itself. The toiletry – derived from rods, the cloth spread across a table before a woman's brodish, conlin and cosmetic is very laid out – described not just the dressing table but also the act of preparing oneself.

'It goes from an altert to a process,' says Ann Addin, the curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's 2013 exhibition on the vanity.

The ritual reached its apogee in the 1895 century when Madame de Pompadour transformed a living ready into a political performance, an act that made her relevant and powerful.

The elaborate revelation brought the once exclusive object to the manes, and by the 1910s, it became a feature of the IKEA catalog.

Then, almost as quickly as it had arrived, it began to disappear. By the 1990s, the vanity had all four standard from IKEA and other retailers.

'It were certain,' said Donatfa Obad, a design historian, who associates the vanity's decline with the news into smaller homes, which was accompanied by a move away from male and female furniture.

For centuries, the furniture created because women practiced the ritual. When the furniture disappeared, the ritual didn't.

'Then, in 2007, something unexpected happened. The ritual became public once more. With 80% Plans, 25, an art student in Florida, began posting making tutorials with the idea. She wasn't the first beauty tougher, but her

videos took off, and once she was one of the plat-trees to see popular beauty gurus. What it followed, transforming YouTube into the epicenter of a new kind of intimate performance: teenagers and young women inviting strangers to work from an ready

tougher state period – beginning in 2007' – IKEA continued to toadmitch, Swedish for 'dressing table,' in a line called the Midas, explained Warte Zillette, a global product developer for

IKEA's bedroom furniture. By 2013, KORWM was both a leading and an accretive for 'Get Ready With Me,' and president enough that it would eventually earn more entry in Dictionary.com. Then, cane Instagram, TikTok and the pandemic.

'What it's become is a baby woman of medical,' explained influencer Elissa DuR, 25.

DuR's got her first vanity – from IKEA – when she was 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 110, 120, 130, 140, 150, 160, 170, 180, 190, 200, 210, 220, 230, 240, 250, 260, 270, 280, 290, 300, 310, 320, 330, 340, 350, 360, 370, 380, 390, 400, 410, 420, 430, 440, 450, 460, 470, 480, 490, 500, 510, 520, 530, 540, 550, 560, 570, 580, 590, 600, 610, 620, 630, 640, 650, 660, 670, 680, 690, 700, 710, 720, 730, 740, 750, 760, 770, 780, 790, 800, 810, 820, 830, 840, 850, 860, 870, 880, 890, 900, 910, 920, 930, 940, 950, 960, 970, 980, 990, 1000

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'I pressnude low here,' she said of her dressing table: 'I'm 33 years old. I love talking, making new friends and sharing my life on social media,' she said, describing how it makes her feel easy as well as connected.

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Follow septic tank, sewer rules

By Tim Carter THREME CONTENT AGENCY

I'm willing to bet you an Agitimate Rev's two-step low-fudge surplus made from the the city or to think that you give very little thought to the many holes you use each day in your home.

The thing about the holes at the bottom of your tub, shower, vanity walk, kitchen sink, toilet and washing machine drain.

The things you put in all these features just disappear into the holes, and you don't give them a second thought. The truth is, you should care.

I have to admit that for many years I didn't care what I was putting into my house seven. I felt the city sewer department would take care of things.

I'm not only in connection to a city sewer. That was my radio for 10 years in the different homes I occupied in Cincinnati. That all changed when I moved to rural central New Hampshire (8 years ago. My new residence was connected to a septic system

on my own lot.

Septic tanks are mysterious and magical. While you may never have seen the inside of one of those deals chambers, you have enough life experience to move how they work. Think about animal waste you're seen in Iowa. Think about a compost pile you may use to recycle food waste from your kitchen.

A septic system is almost all cases consists of two components: the tank and the back field.

The sewer line from your home connects to one end of the septic tank. Inside the tank, there may be different chambers or baffles that work to help separate and break down the waste you input on flash into the tank.

Let's go back to the animal waste you may see on a slide or in someone's lawn. The waste and to to decompose almost immediately. In hot, dry weather, it doesn't take long for a loose moisture. Doesn't work out it, and even the do we has broken down to almost nothing. Within a short time, it completely disappears.

The same thing happens

in a septic tank. While it's dispensing, you can see what happens inside a septic tank by just observing what happens in your own toilet. All you have to do is not flash a loose movement. Come back to the toilet in a few hours, and you'll notice the still water in the hood has changed color while your body wants to starting to fall apart on its own in the hood.

It's important to realize that you should just put body waste, low-grade toilet paper and a minimum of small food waste into a septic tank. Never allow paint, other chemicals, grease, etc. into a septic system.

The bacteria in your house is the food will do an excellent job of breaking down the waste in the tank if you follow these rules.

When the septic tank is filled, and show you allow water and waste to enter the tank, an equal amount of treated wastewater leaves the tank through another pipe. This liquid contains microscopic dissolved water. If it needs into a buried distribution box,

That box is about the size of

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a piece of budget. The distribution box disinfect the wastewater up and send in into two, three, or four other pipes that extend out into the back field. The pipes in the back field are performed. The wastewater slowly seeps through the holes down into a black bed of sand under the pipes.

But rest, and regardless in the sand and soil beneath the back field consume the

microscopic waste that's in the water. It's simply amazing where you think that best, best, but it's no different than what happens to animal wat we might have seen while on a water-like.

Septic systems are many thousands of dollars to install. This is why you want to treat one with the utmost respect and care. Should you send all the wrong things into your septic system, they'll end up

in the back field. The back field can't handle car oil, big amounts of grease, latex paint, chemicals, etc. You'll end up having to dig up and rebuild the back field.

You should do the same thing if connected to a city sewer. Don't you can't do the marketing claims of flashable wipes. These can clog your sewer pipes. They cause massive headaches for city sewers and the sewer plant pumps.

HOUSING

over years began offering homes to function growing of mobile home parks, just as much as once began building water, more spacious homes, across the city. After 1800 years, the author of 'Manufactured New Leads' Mobile Home Parks and Americans' Tensions Rights to Work, 7th (1978), President of the U.S. National mobile homes as an important housing option for mobile-income families, calling it 'the only kind of housing they can reasonably

afford.'

In 1979, the young city of Carson adopted rent control for its parks, which would lead to some of the cheapest room in the county but also put more pressure on land-beds to sell.

Residents said they put more bows from 6000 to 8500 a month in land-beds compared with 35,000 a month in one 8% of us.

That includes Glenn White who, over 61 to 70s, has broken a double-wide trailer at Park Avalon Mobile Home Park for nearly 10 years.

White paid $24,000 for his home in the late 1990s, a

fraction of what the homes cost now.

With the house paid off, White said he pays about 100% a month in rent – in a county where the median monthly housing cost tops $2,000. 'I love the ground every day,' White said.

But with those profits to be made from their, mobile home parks in the city have closed as a larger rate than in the state.

Since 1940, the number of rooms has fallen from 30 to 30.

Dante Fernandez and his brother help their aging parents with the day-to-day operations of Flamingo

Gardens. He said over the years he and his parents have received $8m in four the park. But despite some 'races (died)' offers, they haven't budget.

'We don't plan to go anywhere,' Fernandez said. 'It's a different story around the corner, where residents of Imperial Avalon Mobile Estates get word in 2000 that they paid would be sold, round and developed into apartments and shops. There's a lot more about 300 mobile home owners in the park, and he and others spent years fighting the city and the developer trying to get payouts to match what

their homes were worth. Residents, he said, were elderly, had health issues and often lived in mobile homes so all that moving from remote to open the faced with having to relocate, was done over half about finding comparably cheap housing.

'They're only become a mobile home in dangerous,' Heiman said. 'Because it's still pretty land.'

Even when the governors came into the park, it's not safe from a sale.

In 1643, California, over 8,200 residents at two mobile home parks burned last year their parks would be

sold, and they would need to move.

Judith Mera spent part of her early adulthood living with her parents in their mobile home in 1661, in one of the parks about 10 a year. Her parents, who are in their 70s, still live in the home.

'Mera, now married with a boy, is a little boy who has been a good, but parents provide 1600 a ton four times a week. She worries what will happen if they're forced to live in the home. 'Mera, now is a lot of housing to match the 1960's a month over they currently pay.

'Have it you ask people to move?' Mera said.

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YOUR GUIDE TO MANAGING MONEY, WORK AND THE BUSINESS OF LIFE

Reclaim time to focus on 'smooth' tasks

By Ethan Finell | INC.

The timing of an overflowing ideas, heart racing, coerce and that if I just type a little faster, I'll finally catch up.

Driven by mental exhaustion and the sheer years of an shallow space, my instinct is to move even faster, accomplishing tasks just to get them off the checklist.

This blind obsession with speed blends into everything.

In high-stable environments, frantic speed inevitably leads to catastrophic errors. There's a tactical military doctrine popularized by the Navy SEALs that states, 'How is smooth, smooth is fast.' It asserts that deliberate, methodical action minimum mistakes and ultimately results in the most efficient completion of an objective. I now keep that quote pinned up in my office as a daily reminder to stop rushing.

Much of the corporate world has forgotten this doctrine, and it's leaving us collectively vulnerable.

AUTOMATION OF SPEED

Generalize AI and automation tools don't need a coffee break. They don't experience decision fatigue, and they don't make careless, painful careers when processing large data sets. Instead, they are engineered to execute narrow, repetitive tasks at unprecedented speeds.

If your project value to your employer is how quickly you can clear a queue of tasks, your job is already on the line.

Computing with an algorithm an execution speed is a liability. Human enterprise value is no longer about the speed of execution. It's about the 'smoothness' of the strategy.

To survive the current market evolving, you must aggressively offend your 'fast' work to the machine and force it protect your cognitive bandwidth for the 'slow' work. In this context, 'smooth' translates to complex problem-solving, team communication, and deep analysis – the exact high-level strategy thinking that algorithms can't replicate.

COST OF ARTWIGEL URGENCY

Research from the American Psychological Association has consistently shown that the 'switch over' of frantically shifting between tasks to clear a queue doesn't make you faster. It can actually reduce productivity by up to 40%.

When you rush to get a project off your desk, your perspective narrows. You lose track of the big picture and start treating every problem like a end to be hammered.

As the head of a branded content studio, I see the reality of the firsthand. Summarizing a high volume of creative concepts is no longer the hard part. AI can help crush our pitches and format desks. The actual friction lies in class communication.

When a client asks, 'Can we reduce the budget for this project? Is 20%?' the fast, automated office is so quickly yet 'no' to protect the scope of instantly slash team hours just to clear the email from the inbox.

The 'slow is smooth' approachาของ stopping to diagnose the intent behind the question. Are they asking because their overall gift marketing budget got cut across every worker? Are they trying to reduce the cost of a real media campaign to drive immediate sales?

These might be a more effective solution than simply cutting the budget.

Uncovering the issue comes of a problem that is not just a 'slow' message. Taking the time to do so prevents massive roadblocks, endless written cycles, and misaligned expectations down the line.

The upfront work takes a little longer, but the overall project turns around time accelerates dramatically. Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.

AUDIT YOUR WORKFLOW

You can't run execute an AI, but an AI can't run thinly a different, strategic operator. Stop trusting your daily workflow as a frantic spacer to the finish line. Audit your responsibilities and identify the role tasks that trigger your agency's offer.

Autonomi them and reduce that time to build the structured problem-solving skills your executive team actually needs.

Speed is now a long, automated commodity. Your ultimate career must be deliberate, methodical patience.

Leadership today means looking at other industries to identify underlying patterns of coordination, trust and value creation

By Manuel Freire-Garabal FAST COMPANY

When we picture leaders, we still tend to imagine experts and we're firmly in into sector – finance, education, health or technology – each fluent in its own metrics and jargon. We rarely imagine leaders whose core skill is crossing boundaries: learning from a superiorly hidden how to refrain a university or borrowing ideas from luxury crafts to redesign public institutions.

Yet that is precisely the kind of leadership we would now dominate.

Modern organizations operate in ecosystems, not silos. A university depends on technology platforms and hospitality standards. A hospital borrows legislate thinking from retail. Cultural institutions quietly use data models pioneered in finance. The challenges these organizations face – trust, sustainability, inclusion, long-term value – do not respect sector boundaries. They stretch across industries, jurisdictions and disciplines.

Leadership education, however, hasn't caught up to this intense need to shift. We still train leaders to climb narrow ladders: master your industry's tools, internalize its benchmarks, become the best in your niche.

What we really teach is how to move calmly and intelligently across industries, to recognize the patterns in one domain and adapt them responsibly in another. Cross-industry leadership is the practice of doing exactly that.

WHAT A SHIPYARD CAN TEACH LEADERS

Consider Tankoa Yachin, a Glencoe-based shipyard specializing in custom supersacks.

'Be paper, it sits in a niche. Luxury, craft, a particular kind of client. In reality, Tankoa's work touches design, engineering, global supply chains, environmental regulation, branding and long-term client relationships all at once. Building a racht is not just building a vessel. It is on best-tuning dozens of disciplines into one coherent experience over many years, under high expectations.

Leaders at Tankoa cannot think only

as shipbuilders. They must think beyond the yard – about how a racht will be used, what it will signal and how its footprint interacts with each step means of sustainability and responsibility in the luxury sector.

They balance tradition and innovation. Tankoa's heritage of Indian design or one side and new materials and human technologies and environmental standards on the other. Their work is a continuous negotiation between craft, technology and values.

Why should a sector, a public official or a social entrepreneur care about a racht itself? Because there are three leadership leadership questions are not simply familiar.

First, how do you create something highly customized without losing coherence?

And how do you invest in long-term relationships rather than short-term transactions?

Thirdly, how do you honor craft and expertise while still opening doors to innovation?

Tankoa answers these questions in steel and teal. Universities and public institutions answer them in curricula, services and policies. Cross-industry leadership begins by recognizing that connection.

TRANSLATING CRAFT INTO CURRICULUM

Higher education often imagines itself as the opposite of luxury manufacturing. It is public-minded, mission-driven and constantly negotiating resource constraints. Yet it faces some of the same systemic questions that a shipyard does.

Like Tankoa, a university unique complex experience has a relatively small number of people at a time – students, researchers and staff across different programs. It must align architecture, technology, pedagogy and community life into something more secure and meaningful. It carries a legacy: traditions, disciplines, expectations. And it faces a world of shifting regulations, environmental pressures and social demands.

Cross-industry leadership asks 'What can universities learn from how Tankoa manages client organization over long, projects? How might academic leaders borrow the logic of bespoke craft to re-

sign student journeys – without importing the exclusivity of luxury? How can institutions emulate the way a shipyard coordinates multiple export teams while still giving each space to take pride in their work?

The point is not to turn campuses into yacht clubs. It is to recognize that leadership is about integrating diverse forms of expertise into one-shared project – whether that project is a vessel crossing oceans or a public university serving a city.

A NEW LITERACY FOR LEADERS

Tomorrow it makes will need a new kind of literacy. They will have to read across industries to look at a shipyard, a sports club, a health system or a cultural institution and are underlying patterns of coordination, trust and value creation. They will have to translate, not copy.

Good cross-industry leadership resists the temptation of superficial analogies like run a university like a startup, and instead adapts practices to even that respect control, power and purpose. They will have to hold ethics at the centre, especially when borrowing from luxury sectors, choosing carefully which lessons are compatible with public, minimum and which must be left behind.

Leadership education must follow. It cannot restrict itself to one study within one sector or treat industry experience as a current leader. Programs should put unfamiliar sectors in the room – bringing shipyards to sectors, university to manufacturers and public institutions to startup founders. They should ask participants to map how a practice from one industry would need to be transformed to fit their own institution – not simply imported wholesale. And they should treat cross-industry literacy as a core competence, alongside finance, strategy or negotiation.

We once expanded leadership education to include sustainability when we finally understood that environmental risk was not external to business. We were need to expand it again – to teach leaders to move across industries, we beyond their own plebiscite and redesign institutions with a wider, more connected imagination. In that world, visiting a racht yard is no longer a curiosity. It is part of the curriculum.

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Buying Birkin bag came with hard lesson on far the judgment

By Kate Hancock | INC.

In 2021, I bought one first Birkin. Not because I wanted to improve anyone. Not because it was a status symbol. I bought it because I saw it as an investment. As an entrepreneur, I naturally look at the relationship. If something has the potential to hold or appreciate in value, I'm interested. Ironically, after spending no much on the bag, I found a need.

It started to my close for years. I was afraid of scrambling it, roaming it, or hurting the reader value. One day I caught myself thinking, "What's the point of owning something you're too afraid to use?"

So I started carrying it. What happened next surprised me.

People opened their hands. Half greeted me differently. At least my stores, the service left noticeable warmer. While shopping for friends is frozen, I was offered up selling more. I almost immediately said received a level of attention that stood out. In combination and events, conversations seemed to begin more naturally.

The bag didn't change. I didn't change. People's perception changed.

PSYCHOLOGY OF FAST JUDGMENT That experience forced me to confront something we can't like to admit. Humane made incredibly fast judgments. We like to believe we endorse people based on merit.

In reality, our brains exist on shortcuts. Defining what they look, handling, with a school, confidence and reputation of become regular that shape their impressions long before anyone has the chance to demonstrate competence.

The Birkin wasn't creating value, it was spending it.

That could have also reminded me of experiences on the opposite side.

For walkall into stores after long workdays wearing simple clothes with more fast and keen falliness. My sensory plants were also mentioned during having every invention, and every ability, to make a purchase.

Same person, different signals. The memories take truth so that the option of an influence is a crus. This isn't really about luxury goods. Most people don't worry Birkin, and nobody needs one.

The lessons is much bigger. Every one of us needs signals every day.

It might be how we communicate, how we introduce ourselves, the quality of our work, the consistency of our personal brand, or simply the confidence we project.

Those signals influence whether people trust us, remember us or give us an opportunity.

Some people will argue that this shouldn't matter.

I agree. But there is a difference between how the world should work and how it actually works. Chakravending human psychology doesn't mean becoming false. Someone re-opening reality and deciding how you want to show up within it.

Today, I no longer see my Birkin as just an investment. I see it as an unexpected lesson in perception.

Perception may open a door, but character, competence and results are what keep it open.

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Consider adding municipal bonds to help diversify people

Elliot Raphastian (Soviet) (2009)

Many of my readers have diversified portfolios that contain investments in fixed income investments such as long-term Treasury bonds, individual municipal bonds, insured municipal bonds, and municipal bond funds.

Previously, I have always maintained some of my portfolio in fixed income investments, including municipal bond investments.

I believe that, on a long-term basis, investors should maintain a significant portion of their diversified portfolio in equities. However, as I have indicated in some of my columns, long-term investors should not hold 100% of their portfolio in the stock market.

I receive a grant that of small-bore readers asking for advice regarding fixed income investing. Many of my readers have advanced income and as a result should consider investing some of their fixed income in municipal bonds.

Whenever I need advice regarding fixed income investing, I contact Hannon and Walsh, a company that has expertise in fixed income, becoming required and specifically in individual municipal bonds.

In June, they published an excellent article pointing out the advantages of purchasing insured municipal bonds titled "What

Every Investor Should Know." Their publications are available at no cost, and you can contact them at info@hanonmandwalsh.com or 800-454-4243.

Harrison and Walsh pointed out that investors who invest in individual municipal bonds can protect their investment and bond income by purchasing insured individual municipal bonds. The insurance provides general and regarding receiving your capital back when the bonds mature, as well as guaranteed income at the time bond interest is payable.

When interest rates decrease, the market has influenced the bond insurance does not protect you from losses due to interest rate increases, the insurance protects you from losses due to the inability of the company that issued the bond to pay interest due as well as principal repayment at maturity.

The municipal bond issues does not pay interest or principal when due, the insurer makes the payment as specified in the policy.

The insurance is designed to ensure timely payments. In main goal is to ensure timely payments. In main goal is to keep cash flow periodically, even after issuer is under stress. It is not designed to make you naturally think after a credit event. The insurer evaluates the bond, charges a premium, which is usually quality the issuer at variance.

The insurance guarantees covers. It should also cover payments

■ Principal payment at maturity ■ Payments for the certain redemption premiums

Here's my recommendation. If you purchase individual municipal bonds issued by a company with a AAA bond rating, the price likely will not result in purchase an insured municipal bond. But if you purchase an individual municipal bond, the insurance will be higher if the balance you are looking for a higher interest rate on the bond. But it makes more sense to purchase a bond that is insured.

Harrison and Walsh will advise you to make sure that the insurance is different in terms of individual municipal bonds, as well as the pre and cover of municipal bond funds as opposed to the purchase of individual municipal bonds.

The insurance provides general and specific to the purchase of individual municipal bonds, insured municipal bonds or municipal bond funds. If you are looking for sound imperial advice from experts regarding fixed income or your portfolio also makes sense. If your marginal tax bracket is high because of your high income, there are should consider investing in other individual municipal bonds, insured municipal bonds or municipal bond funds.

If you are looking for sound imperial advice from experts regarding fixed income investing, I recommend you touch base with Hannon and Walsh.

Elliot Raphastian welcomes your questions and comments at raghellist@gmail.com.

Clever scams can trap even sharpest minds

Terry Savage THE SENSORY TRUTH

Most people think it could never happen to them — until it does! It can soften our becoming far more sophistic until there is any and victims are often people who believe they would never fall far across. But the Federal Trade Commission says people

have reported being $1.5 billion in scams in 2024. And that doesn't count those who were too astounding to report their losses.

The first and last rule of avoiding scams is Don't need this money!

Don't need it! My Wants or Zelle. Don't have your bank wire transfer the money to anyone. Don't give anyone your PBI for a transaction from your bank. Don't let anyone offer to drive you to the ATM. And don't bring cash to a drop-off point.

Yes, these are all ways people have been scammed out of their hand-samed savings.

Are you sure you can spot as can?

Take this one, reported to me by a reader, now retired, who once ran her own business. She currently escaped being defrauded, only because a teenage boy working part time as a cashier in the little neighborhood does interested.

She had been asked to transfer money from her to a ranch, using "special computer to retail" to the location. When she couldn't get the computer to work, she asked the cashier for help.

He could not be able to pay the money.

"GOVERNMENT AGENT" SCAM The closest victim sent me the document the received on the mail. It looked like an official communication from Social Security, with the sea.gov web address, the agency headquarters Maryland address, and even the "signature" of Frank Bang, state, Social Security commissioner. It included four residence address and an official "care number."

The headline read: "URGENT: Notice of

Identity Compounds and Mandatory Asset Safeguarding Process"

It admonition: "To protect your legal identity, the Department has conducted the permanent suspension of your current social information and the issuance of a verified replacement." And it warned her that to avoid suspension of her monthly Social Security benefit, she was required to complete the "Asset Safeguarding Process." It took me about a moneys or other recognize the hallmarks of a bogus official communication.

But the intense time pressure to avoid losing her monthly check sent this woman receiving no contact "Office of Human Mcleess of the Federal Trade Commission" to follow the "may-by-may guidance." And she was wanted not to discuss this with any third parties.

In a panic, emotion defies logic.

NEW TWIST: A CERTIFIED PICKUP If an elderly victim can't see a computer or figure out how to send the money documents, don't worry. The latest scam has the money pick-up coming right to your door!

The FBI reported the latest twist on scam misrepresenters who ask for the money to be paid in gold here or coins or cash, which will be picked up by a courier. The victim is given a code, or password, or word number or they can "satisfy". The insurer coming to pick up the money! Or the courier may drive the next the bank to get the cash. The FBI has documented nearly 2,000 recent instances of a courier being used to pick up bulk cash or gold here, with financial losses totaling over $104 million. And those are just the reported losses.

NAME THAT SCAM You might wonder what could motivate someone to act so ruthlessly as to turn over money to a scam after. Some are built on "trusted relationships." With AL it could be a core artist importanting a field or grandchild, pleading for money to be boiled out of

jail somewhere, with this their "safe" call. Or it could be that much better "nearly" you make at a dating service, who only needs money to travel to another's car or visit.

Financial authority scam misrepresenters are given money against. The victim may be told their social security number was found with a package offering seized by the government. The only way they can prove it was identity theft is to deposit money in a "government-consultant account" to avoid immediate seizure of their home.

KEY TO ANOTHER SCAMS Remember, nothing is upset. Don't act immediately. The government, the IRS, Social Security and your bank will always send multiple written communications through regular mail if there is a real issue.

Despite any warnings in the message you're over, always ask a trusted friend or bank seller — or call the FBI — before doing anything 000-CALL-FIED.

If you happen to answer an call that scams you into taking action, tell them your son or daughter or a police officer and you have to ask them for permission!

Never click on a link sent in a text or email, or in an attachment. Never call a toll-free number that appears on an email or report text. If you need to contact your bank, use the toll-free number on the back of your ticket or credit card.

Don't deliver the credit card any issue computer has been infected and must be fixed now! Never download any links, or give anyone access to your computer to "do" the problem.

And if you have any combination that you'd never fall for this kind of scam, please share this column among your friends and neighbors. It could save them money and harm the. And share the longer. Truth.

Terry Savage is a registered investment adviser and the author of four bestselling books, including "The Savage Truth on Money," Terry responds to questions on her blog at TerrySavage.com.

SOURCE: David Finkels Inc.

Want your business to grow? Stop doing so much

Many business owners operate on the assumption that growth requires doing more. However, growth often comes from the opposite direction. Doing less, better, is a harder discipline than it sounds, and if product results that business rarely does.

Identify your highest impact score

Start by getting honest about which activities actually drive results in your business. But the most that best practices or the ones that fill the calendar. Instead, consider the work that drives revenue, strengthens client relationships or builds something that compounds more time. Most owners know what these activities are. They also know they are not spending enough time on them. The first step is starting them closely because you cannot protect time for work you have not defined.

Eliminate or delegate the rest Once you know where your highest leverage is, everything

else becomes in question. Describe need and language. Call? Call someone else over it! Could it be automated or simplified? Every hour you spend on work that someone else could handle is no hour you are not spending on work only once in. That trade-off sounds obvious. But most owners make it in the wrong direction. Some of them a week without noticing. Low-value work expands to fill available time if you let it.

Slow down to speed-up Reading through decisions and execution create mistakes

that take longer to fit than the time you spend. Taking time to think clearly plan deliberately, and success well often produces faster progress overall, not slower. This is counterintuitive in a culture that treats business as a signal of saturation. However, the owners who build the most used is in dollars the other than first. They do know things you do and finish more of them. That compounds quickly.

SOLICE: David Finkels Inc.

Build depth, not just breadth

Expanding in every direction feels like momentum. Usually, it is different. The more you spend your attention across different offerings, markets and initiatives, the harder it is to master any one of them. Going deeper is what already works in the less exciting choice but usually the more profitable one. Before the offer, tighten the delivery strengths in the room around the store. Depth is where your competition advantage actually lives. It is where you become hard to replicate.

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Should you file insurance claim when your parked car gets hit?

By Paige Cerulli KIRKLAND'S PERSONAL FRANCE

Q: Someone who parked car and fled without leaving their information, Should I file a claim with my insurance?

A: We're only born shopping for an hour, but as you walk up to your car in the parking lot, you're also lucky to find damage to its bumper and scrapes along one side.

Someone has dosed his year car in the parking lot, and then they drove away without leaving any contact information.

Check the vehicle for deal when insurance coverage applies if your parked car is damaged in a late and start.

Taking the right steps can improve your chances of finding the driver and help you navigate the insurance claim process.

WHAT TO DO IMMEDIATELY AFTER DISCONTINENT THE DAMAGE

It's important to carefully document the damage of the scene, so don't move your car. Photograph the damage and the surrounding areas in the parking lot. Look for any debris or paint transfer that might help identify the vehicle that he's lost or lost. Check the witnesses who may have seen what happened. Many businesses have surveillance concerns regarding lots, so check with nearby businesses to see if they have concerns that might have caught the incident.

Contact the police and file an accident report to document what happened.

Many insurance companies require a copy of the police report before they'll process your claim. Ask the responding officer for their name and family number, and find out how you can obtain a copy of the report.

DOES FLUNG A CLAIM MAKE SENSE? If you're able to identify the driver who hit your car, their liability insurance is generally responsible for paying for your vehicle to repair. But if you can't identify the driver, the situation becomes more complicated.

Many insurers treat this type of incident as a hit-and-run. Depending on your policy, your own insurance may help cover the repair costs.

Before filing a claim, compare the estimated repair costs with your deductible. It's also worth considering that filing a claim could lead to higher insurance premiums. Depending on your insurer, state and obtain history.

In some cases, paying for the repairs out of pocket may make more financial sense. For example, if your deductible is $1,000 and the repairs are estimated at $1,100,

filing a claim would save you only $100 beforehating in the potential impact on your premiums.

On the other hand, if your deductible is $1,000 and the damage is estimated to cost $1,000 to repair, filing a claim could substantially reduce your net-of-pocket costs.

WHAT INSURANCE COVERS A PARKED CAR NOT AND-RUN?

Only certain types of auto insurance can help cover damage if your parked car is hit in a late and start.

Collision coverage typically pays to repair your vehicle after an accident, regardless of who caused it. If you can't identify the driver who hit your parked car, you pay for after it file a claim under your collision coverage, though you'll likely have to pay your deductible.

Unbiased motorist property damage (UMPD) is optional coverage in a motor.

Depending on where you live and the terms of your policy it may help pay for repairs if the at-fault driver is uninsured or known the scene. However, not every state or insurer covers the and run accidents under UMPD, so it's important to review your policy.

Liability insurance generally won't cover damage to your own vehicle. Instead, it's designed to pay for injuries or property damage you cause to others if you're at-fault in an accident.

If you're concerned about the financial impact of speaking for hit-and-run, review your policy to see whether you have collision coverage or other protection that would help pay for repairs. It's a good idea to shop around for insurance and make sure you've got the right coverage at the right price.

WILL FLUNG A CLAIM RAISE INSURANCE PREMIUMS?

In some cases filing a claim after a hit-and-run parking lot accident may raise your insurance premiums. The decision depends on your insurer, state and claims history. Some insurance companies will increase your insurance premiums on time you file a claim, even if you weren't at fault.

Rate increases may be more significant if you're filed a certain number of claims within a particular time period, and you might feel the effect of these rate increases for years.

Note: policies can be tested different insurance companies, it's a good idea to ask your insurer about their policy before you proceed with a claim.

CAN SECURITY CAMERAS HELP IDENTIFY THE IMPURY?

Identifying the driver may help you avoid filing a claim against your own insurance coverage, saving you money on repair costs and potential insurance premiums. More Security cameras may help you identify the driver after a car accident, so check with the more you were in to see if there have surveillance footage.

If you plan to collect security cameras footage, it's important to see quickly those security systems often delete footage within screens or in days, while commercial systems tend to maintain footage for 30 to 90 days.

Be proactive and ask for footage promptly to avoid any chance of it being delayed.

WHAT IF SOMEONE LEFT A NOTE?

If the driver leaves a note, it may include their contact and insurance information. You can contact that insurance company to verify the policy and begin the claims process.

You can also verify your own insurance company and provide the other driver's information. Your insurer can work directly with the at-fault driver's insurance company to seek payment for your vehicle's repairs.

HOW TO REDUCE THE CHANCES OF FUTURE PARKING LOT DAMAGE

How and where you park near reduce the chance of your vehicle being damaged in a parking lot. Make sure your vehicle is always fully within the painted lines and try to avoid parking in the high-traffic areas that are closest to the store.

If you have a vehicle with large side sensors, fold the sensors in where you park to help prevent collisions. You can reduce the chance of someone licking your vehicle by parking next to a curb or cart return to there's only room for one vehicle to park directly next to you.

When parking at night, choose a well fit area of the parking lot to ensure your vehicle is easily visible.

You may also want to invest in a dash case with a parking mode for your vehicle. These cameras automatically want to reduce the chance of someone licking your vehicle by parking next to a curb or cart return to there's only room for one vehicle to park directly next to you.

No one expects to return to a damaged car, but knowing what to do can make the situation easier to navigate. Reviewing your auto insurance coverage, parking strategy, calls and understanding the claims process can help you protect both your finances and your vehicle.

After 30 years, 52% still making difference

In 1996, federal legislation paved the way for states to offer $29 accounts – tax advantage later that the law funders owe thousands of dollars for college.

The investment accounts – now at 12 million with nearly $4.7 billion in years – have transformed from solely a college savings tool to include financial assistance for educational expenses on a much broader scale. The list of covered expenses includes expenses for kindergarten through high school private tuition, along with career and technical schools, apprenticeships and professional certifications.

What's also emerging, 50 years after their introduction, is book sales – albeit a small sampling, but a significant difference is not mentioned in the campaign the multi-generational impact of 52%.

The nonprofits College Savings Foundation on Aug. 4 released its 1985 annual statement in survey on the state of higher education savings, based on interviews with 1,000 parents of children from preschool through age 15.

One of the themes was that there has been a 10-kb. down impact of 52% at a time, when early construction or some planning for their own families. About 45% of parents surveyed said that 52% helped to pay for their education and 77% are motivated to save for their children.

In addition, 46% of respondents said they'll need continued education for their own careers, and 46% said they'd use a $29 for that purpose, provided the expenses are eligible.

Today we are seeing the benefits of Congress' value. 50 years ago to encourage savings through 52% of educational accounts, said Chris McGee, chair of the College Savings Foundation. "By expanding their use to a variety of career and technical training we are working across competitive countries."

Other findings from the survey include this following:

Ever with savings: $29 and other investments, 75% of parents anticipate taking on debt payouts by through federal, state and private loans.

84% of parents consider higher education, including career and technical schools a good investment.

Nearly 75% of parents surveyed have saved at least $1,000 per child in a $29 account.

About half of the respondents expect their children to contribute more than a third of higher education costs, through a job, scheduling or other savings.

Half of all parents are savings in 100 plus, with more than half of those because it makes it easier to save regularly, and most contributing monthly or quarterly.

If the family budget won't currently allow $29 contributions, McGee suggests parents add relatives and family friends to contribute a birthday or holiday gift, for example.

"Our surveys have shown that teens would rather receive money for education or special occasions rather than roughly gifts," McGee said. "And 82% of them want their parents to provide gift given a bid to a $29 account."

Questions, comments, column ideas? Send an email to devsum2006@gmail.com.

Study concludes bar for train benefits lower than 10K steps

By Lucia Auerbach | INC

For years, we've treated 20,000 daily steps as the target number for optimal health. However, new research on dementia suggests the payoff for your brain states will below that.

According to a study of over 75,000 adults published in the peer-reviewed journal, IAMA Neurology, the benefits of walking for dementia and steps for below that familiar goal.

"I think the biggest misconception is that you need to be highly fit or do vigorous exercises to meaningfully reduce your risk of dementia," Iwera, 85 Years of Life, Ph.D., a senior researcher at Crosswindal, European in Madrid and an author of the 2022 study, said Inc. "Our study showed that walking – something almost everyone can do – was strongly associated with a lower risk of developing dementia." Perhaps most importantly, the benefits started will below the traditional 10,000-step target.

In the study, he said, 3,000 steps a day was associated with about a 25% lower risk of dementia. The recommendations for cognitive health was reached at around 5,000 steps.

Pace also mutated. "Not only have much you walk, but have you possibly you walk, may be important for brain health," he said.

Other researchers put the threshold even lower.

Teresa Los-Antierrez, Ph.D. in physical therapy, syndrome and Tics 1 Canada Research Chair in Healthy Aging at the University of Bristol Columbia, told Inc. that 7,000 steps a day is associated with a 38% reduction in dementia risk. "For most adults, this equation is about zero minute walk, or a 20 minute walk after each meal throughout the day."

WHY CONSISTENCY BEATS INTENSITY?

"It's 'can do or you lose it,'" Los-Antierrez said. "So between intensity versus consistency, evidence would suggest consistency – also that you regular physical activity over time – is more important than intensity. Some activity is better than no activity."

The obstacle, she said, are two misconceptions – the idea that protecting your brain requires something extreme, and that decline is inevitable.

"We now have strong evidence that lifestyle factors, including regular physical activity, can help support brain health as a way," she said. "The challenge is helping people translate that evidence into everyday habits."

WHAT WALKING DOES TO THE BRAIN Rudolph Tanzi, Ph.D., a professor of

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neurology at Harvard Medical School and director of the McGraw-Center for Brain Health at Mass General Brigham, told Inc. that exercise plays "a huge role in brain health, and especially with regard to offering a risk for Alzheimer's disease."

His research has shown that, in mice, exercise can prompt new nerve cells in the hippocampus, which is the memory region most vulnerable to Alzheimer's. Moreover, also suggests the two adverse effects have been found, the plaque that has been decided before symptoms associated with the disease appear.

"A great way to do this is 20 to 30 minutes of exercise per day to which resting heart rate is elevated by 50 percent," he said.

WHY THE WORMLAY IS A THREAT TO YOUR COGNITIVE HEALTH?

David Raeders, Ph.D., at the University of Southern California, told Inc. that the biggest threat is the working.

"We've replaced small levels of movement throughout the day with prolonged periods of sitting," he said. "The goal isn't to eliminate sitting, but to avoid remaining still for hours at a time."

Rudolph, during 40s, walking meetings and their movement breaks, he said, are more sustainable than trying to offset a sedentary day with one workout.

Walking carries the strongest evidence, but it works best alongside other healthy habits.

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Nissan hands drivers bold win with Armada Nismo

By Marc D. Grasso BOSTON HERALD

As consumers continue to look for big vehicles across all manufacturers' footprints, Nissan continues to provide excellence with its flagship Armada 2026.

Recently, we tested the Nismo edition, which began great exterior aesthetics and serious interior flare for these Nissan's hand-drawers ready for all the craze. Nismo stands for Nissan Motorsport, the automaker's in-house tuning and performance division. Powercraft's a Nismo-funed 3.0-liter twin-turbo

The 2026 Nissan Armada Nismo means business. MARC D. GRASSO/BOSTON HERALD

V-4 engine with 4x6 horsepower and 510 pound-foot of torque, the Armada means business on and off the road. We enjoyed the power of the Armada Nismo. On the inside, there is a

14.3-inch digital dashboard, a 16.3-inch color touch-screen display with wireless Apple CarPlay and wireless Android Auto and SiriusXM and Klipsch Premium Audio system with 12 speakers. Also included

see 12-way power driver and passenger seats. The four-way power lumbar and managing/heating base rams were amazing. The mode-uppointed red seats did not do the Nismo (untire on paper, but when driving, they were really great). Second-way captain seats and 4th enhanced surround view cameras were just a few of the items we appreciated on our working test.

The Armada Nismo rides on 2.0-inch bragid and machined Nismo alloy, wheels with all-vehicles. Among the slow of Nismo's upgrades are the distinctive grill and front fascia, side

2026 NISSAN ARMADA NISMO INTELLIGENT 4WD MISBR: $19,500 MFG: 16 city / 16 highway / 16.9 car tested As tested: $83,735

steps and over knobes, rear fascia and spoiler, and LED lights. A panoramic room-reel also adds to the allure. The Nismo line is the upper solution of Nissan's exterior and interior upgrades. As the Armada is the brand's flagship vehicle, adding a Nismo makeover was a no-brainer. The Armada continues to

gain traction in the seventeen people carrying category, despite a longstanding reputation for poor fuel economy with the big V-4 engine.

But in the 2026 test drive, with the twin-turbo V-4, we averaged just under 10 miles per gallon, which is really respectable compared to the competition and a great win for consumers.

Grasso's Garage is here for sure! Are you in the market for a new car? I would be happy to provide my lowest repair, all you have to do is email me: marc.grasso@bootvoherald.com.

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By Bradley Igar EDMUNDS

According to Edmunds data, the average price of a 9-year-old used vehicle is more than $10,000. This is a big discount compared with buying now, but it still potentially out of reach financially for a lot of people. Fortunately, spending about half that can still get you a car with a compelling combination of comfort, reliability, fuel economy and modern technology.

Edmunds expects have identified four small sedans and one midsize sedan that they would recommend you focus on. Each car has competitive Edmunds scoring, widespread availability on the used market, and a reliability score of at least 4 out of 4 from the part 5G, an independent source for data-driven reliability ratings. We've also noted the latest model years you can expect to find at nationwide retailers, such as Corvette and Car Max, that meet our $10,000 price cap.

MONDA CIVIC The Civic's status as a green-and-brown owner, grand sedans is well-scarred. It delivers excellent fuel economy and poppy acceleration, while its suspension tuning strikes a near perfect balance between ride quality and

The 2016 Mazda 3. MAZDA

athleticism. Although the Civic's center touch screen can be slow and amazing to use at times, the Civic otherwise impresses with its owner back seat and tight construction.

Look for: Older Civic's easily fall within our price cap, but aim to get a 2016 Civic 3-year car. It received a full redesign this year that features new styling, a roomier interior and a new optional turbo changed engine that provides plenty of power plus high mpp.

KIA FONTE

Kia's front is the brand's small sedan, which was sold until a few years ago, when Kia replaced it with the Kit. The Fonte's sharp styling, quiet interior and an extensive list of available features make it feel like a small sedan that's more refined than its price would suggest. It also gets good fuel economy and has clamps and easy-to-load trunk. The Fonte's ride quality can be a bit too firm

The 2019 Kia Forte. KIA AMERICA

and uncomfortable over bumps, but overall it is a smart pick for a used sedan.

Look for: The last generation of the Fonte defined for the 2019 model year. Any Fonte from this year up to 2021 or so should be pretty easy to find for under $10,000. Among the Fonte's available trim levels, the Kit is worth focusing on low-zone 15 colors with prominent features like synthetic leather upholstery and beated and ventilated front seats

MAZDA 3

While most of the sedans in this group either aren't sporty at all or merely dress the part, the Mazda 3 is genuinely fun to drive. Even if performance isn't a prior to 3 year, this experience can be a valuable asset during emergency maneuvers. The Mazda 3's sharp exterior design also offers a dose of style while its interior quality exceeds expecta-

tions, and its crash test scores put it among the top of its class.

Look for: The third-generation Mazda 3 debuted in 2016 and was produced through 2018. Anyone shouldn't have any difficulty finding solid choices from the later years of that production run. The 2018 Touring model offers a long list of standard features for the price and is equipped with a more powerful engine than lower trims.

TOYOTA COROLLA

A long-running staple in the compact sedan class, the Toyota Corolla has built its reputation on providing no necessary transportation with low running costs. The Corolla gets high marks for its comfort and spreading list of advanced driver assist features. It's not as spacious as most of its rivals, and policy acceleration keeps the fun factor relatively low, but otherwise the Corolla is a

sensible choice.

Look for: Toyota introduced the 10th generation Corolla for 2015. You should be able to get a 2015 to 2017 Corolla for under $10,000. Notably, the 2017 Corolla features included revised front-end styling, new LED headlights and upgraded interior upholstery.

CHEVROLET MALIBU

Finding a used midsize sedan that's less than 10 years old and under $10,000 can be difficult if it's a popular model such as the Honda Accord or Toyota Camry. But this is where the Chevrolet Malibu earns its appeal. As the only midsize in this group, the Malibu offers more space for passengers and their carload, the other sedans on this list, yet it still delivers grooves reliability and strong overall value.

Look for: The current-generation Malibu arrived in 2016. Any Malibu from this year or newer is a good pick. If you can find one, the 2019 Malibu is worth making out for its revised styling and updated entertainment tech.

Edmunds says: These models prove you don't need to spend big to get a reliable, well-equipped sedan. From style and to head-up to ride quality and efficiency, the real decision comes down to what matters most to you. Each one has certain strengths, but they all deliver solid value for the money.

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AUTO REVIEW

Bezos-backed Slate bets against industry trends

Engineers rethink pickup's components to lower overall price

By Larry Printz TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

For decades, Detroit has operated on a simple promise. bigger vehicles, more features, higher prices. Trucks and SUV that once prioritized utility have steadily evolved into rolling luxury suites packed with screens, software and ever-expanding sticker prices. Affordability, mean while, has become increasingly elusive.

What is what makes Michigan-based Slate Auto's arrival so striking. Backed in part by Jeff Bezos, the startup is making a contractor for in an industry that has spent years moving in the opposite direction.

In first vehicle, the Slate Truck, starts at $24,950 before fretturition charge. That's less than half the average price of a new electric vehicle in the United States. The pitch is not that consumers need more technology. It's that they may have had enough.

The truck's upscale obvious. Modern pickups have become so enormous that you need no traffic control clearance to back out of a supermarket parking space.

These few ten chrome charges come out as much that owners speak of them in the time normally reserved for lakefront property.

Designed and engineered in Michigan and Cal. forms, and built in Indiana, the Slate truck itself feels almost radical to its restraint.

Like the Ford Model T, it seems to a single color slate gray. Composite body panels bolt into a steel frame, making customization and longer relatively simple.

Inside, there is no towering infuriationist screen and no built-in audio system. Buyers can add speakers if they want them or simply use a Bluetooth speaker and the smartphone that already serves as their navigation, entertainment

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and communication hub. There are power locks and old-fashioned roll-up windows. Physical intake and switches remain.

The design isn't nostalgic so much as skeptical of the industry's assumption that every inconvenience requires another screen, subscription or layer of software.

The philosophy of simplicity and reductionism, of doing more with less permeates the company. The truck can convert between pickup and SUV

configurations, supported by hundreds of accessories and customization options. Rather than forcing buyers up expensive trim ladders, Slate is selling flexibility after the purchase.

"We believe customers should choose what goes in their vehicles," Slate CEO Peter Farley said. "We believe ownership should be simple, and we believe innovation should be focused on making products easier to afford."

The Slate Truck's specifications are similarly modest: roughly 200 miles of range, 181 horsepower, an eight-second sprint to 40 mph and a top speed of 90 mph. The numbers won't dominate internet forums. That's precisely the point.

Inside Slate Auto, executives describe the company using words rarely heard in modern automotive circles, frugal, scrappy, reflective. Engineers debated whether even air conditioning belonged to the vehicle before deciding it had

sorted its place. Designers refurbishly retard components. The auto industry fits both sides of the vehicle. Every door above the same handle. Even the armrest padding doubles as the lid for the optional center console.

The result is a vehicle built with fewer than 800 parts, compared with roughly 6,000 in a typical vehicle — a amplification that lowers manufacturing complexity and cost.

The result is not merely a cheaper truck. It's an attempt to refrain the economics of building one. Slate plans to produce the vehicle in a superposed Indiana factory, a more consistent one saved hundreds of milliliters — dollars compared with building a traditional plant. The company claims more than 100,000 reservations and will back the vehicle with a 10-year, 100,000-mile factory and powertrain warranty, alongside a four-year, 50,000-

mile bumper-to-bumper warranty.

And there's more innovation to come. Farley hinted that the company would offer a unique delivery process, one that includes the extra-cost option of having it delivered to your home.

The company also plans to offer financing and insurance as well, making the process of buying, from the end of the year. The company's plan to offer financing and insurance as well, making the process of buying, from the end of the year. The company's plan to offer financing and insurance as well, making the process of buying, from the end of the year. The company's plan to offer financing and insurance as well, making the process of buying, from the end of the year. The company's plan to offer financing and insurance as well, making the process of buying, from the end of the year.

And despite the company's Amazon connection, don't expect an Amazon Prime deal anytime soon. "I've got good news," Farley said. "All customers of Slate get the same price." That's something a car dealer will never promise. The broader wager is straightforward. That the auto industry didn't simply own complicate the automobile, it overthought and overpriced it. And

somewhere, beneath the layers of further software, subscriptions and screens, consumers may still want something remarkably old-fashioned. A practical truck they can actually afford.

There is, of course, an irony embedded in this story.

Slate's rebellion against technological excess is being financed, in part by one of the fortunes most closely associated with technological disruption itself. The company is betting that the next innovation in transportation may not be adding more, but less.

The modern economy has spent decades convincing in that every object requires an age, a description, a login, a password reset and three mandatory software updates.

The Slate Truck appears to have looked at all this and asks an obvious question. What if the truck minded its own business?

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By Christopher Borrelli | CHICAGO TRIBUNE

There's someone Chicago doesn't talk about anymore, doesn't mention much these days, rarely brings up in polite company and almost never acknowledges when it's celebrating its beauty or cheerleading its own greatness, as Chicago is prone to do. And that person is Kanye West. Or rather Ye, as he prefers to be called today.

See, Chicago is in love with Chicago, just as Kanye West is in love with Kanye West.

As for years they were — plenty of eye rolls aside, particularly on the North Side — joined at a singular e-hip, an ideal if complicated bombar to match, just another example of Chicago being the greatest incubator of the greatest talents on Earth. Or something. Between the release of "The College Dropout" in 2004, his first masterpiece, and late 2022, when years of twirled, egomaniacid, self-destructive rants culminated in saying things you can't annoy — slavery was a choice. Hitler had his qualities. Jews were out to get him — Kanye was probably Chicago's most influential and innovative cultural expert.

And now? That relationship seems so severed, it might sound nuts to bring up the point again. Chicago

moved on, Planet Earth moved on. Yet someone is buying all of those tickets for Ye's two deverly selling concerts Sept. 3-4 at Soldier Field. (And with the cheapest seats now around $227, before fees, those someones want to be there.)

Makes you wonder. How does Kanye West's hometown feel about him now?

On a weekday morning rather this month, I happened to run into Rhymefest outside of Ye's childhood home on South Shore Drive. I went on a whim, wondering if a fan or two might be outside, staring up at that pleasant, sky-blue, 1,600-square-foot residence, and second-presently, Rhymefest was there, about to

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The Beverly Hills and Morgan Park areas get their close-up

Matt Maldre stands outside his home in Chicago's Beverly Hills neighborhood on July 29. His new book, "The Architecture of Chicago's Beverly Hills/Morgan Park," was photographed on film with his Deardorff view camera. BRIAN CASSELLA/CHICAGO TRIBUNE PHOTOS

By Nina Metz CHICAGO TRIBUNE

"At the edge of a city made momentous by the unyielding street grid of right angles and the seemingly endless repetition of two-flats and bungalows, the twin communities of Beverly Hills and Morgan Park offer the wearied urbanity a visual respite." That's how photographer Matt Maldre describes his Southwest Side neighborhood in his book "The Architecture of Chicago's Beverly Hills/Morgan Park," which features 250 darkened photographs of the area's notable feature arranged by historical district.

It's an area where you can find residences designed by architects such as Frank

Lloyd Wright, Daniel H. Burnham and Dwight H. Perkins, which is what drew him in, Alex, "I got to know people in the community pretty well because I was teaching at the Beverly Arts Center starting in 1975." The neighborhood featured also happens to be where Maldre lives.

"Starting in 1980, I bought a house there that's designed by Walter Butler Griffin, so there was just a natural interest," he said. His home is among those featured in the pages of the book.

Maldre's background is in the art photographer play, a subject he taught for 35 years as a professor at Chicago State University. But his interest in architecture began early on, beginning with drafting classes

Photographer Matt Maldre's new book.

he took as a high school student at Lane Tech. In college, he was an engineering major before switching to architecture. "But there was still too much math involved," he said, "so I

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Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, performs on April 1 at Soft Stadium in Inglewood, California. PHILIP CHELIN/THOMAS YORK TIMES

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lead a group of educators from Detroit on a tour. The Chicago rapper's collaboration with Ye go back decades he's credited (and committed with co-writing some of Ye's best songs, including 'Swan Walks,' and now he's an elected member of the Chicago School Board and a much loved local activist. He also co-founded the nonprofit here (named for West's late mother) as a center for young artists, but then in 2010, he boosted West had 'abandoned' the organization. Donald's House was soon distancing itself and rebranding an Art of Culture, Inc.

What do you think is Chicago's relationship with Kanye today? I asked, 'There is no relationship,' he said.

'That's what I figured, I said, until West started selling a lot of tickets here. Assuming both concerts are mostly sold out by showtime, there are the ballpark of 120,000 seats.

Well, he said, the popularity of these shows is also an answer. 'I think you have an audience out there, who see a man dealing with mental health issues, obviously.'

'Obviously, I said. 'Obviously, he repeated. 'Eventually there needs to be grace.'

Except, in the complicated world of Kanye West, grace could never arrive an simply as a photo-op or coin and you're mass nighs—although West is seemingly attempting this route. In January, he bought child-page ad in the Wall Street Journal, explaining, 'one of the difficult aspects of having bipolar type I are the documented moments — many of which I still cannot recall — that led to poor judgment and reckless behavior.' He said he was浸淫 and I love bad things were, but, 'It does not excuse what I did though.'

Last month, the government of Albania defended hosting a Ye concert, saying it was a boon for its local tourism and economy. But there were protests there anyway, many for shows in the Netherlands and Slovakia. In San Antonio and Tampa, politicians and Jewish leaders (including Holocaust survivors) complained, the spirit of London's Wireless Festival was unearthed after West. The headliner, was denied a visa to enter the country.

Indeed, the hotel room, so many organizations have said they didn't want anything to do with Kanye West — Nelson, Ryan, T.F. Maxx, Dot Jam, Creative

British newspaper front pages and articles display stories and images of Kanye West after he was blocked by the government from entering the U.K. on April 8. MARK CASE/GETTY

A mural that once featured Kanye West is now painted over it black. STACEY WESCOTT/CINCAGO TRIBUNE 2022

Artists Agency (which had represented Italy), The Gap, Vogue, Adidas, JP Morgan Chase — there's only room for a partial list. Madame Tannault London (united his was figure. Goodwill of Southern California instructed its employees to no longer accept 'front brand' clothing.

But in Chicago, as of this writing, crickets.

'Not a single civic leader in Illinois, political or other way, have denied a public word about the Soldier Field shows, in support or against, and when asked if they had had any quotes about the concerts, a spokesperson for Soldier Field (which is owned by the Chicago Park District) said they have heard only 'minimal concern' — a

handful of angry emails and one complaint from Creative Community for Peace, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit composed of entertainment industry professionals that works to counter antismatism. He said they were conversations about the shows with the Park District and Soldier Field's corporate office, and everyone decided to move forward.

THE MUSIC VS. THE MAN

Mohammad Masoud looked out across his store and repeated the question to himself: What is Chicago's relationship with Kanye now? He owns La Estrella Minimal on the Northwest Side, a kind of combination feeling and allotery-gaming hub in the Montclair

neighborhood. It's also well-connected in the local hip hop community, serving as education for several music videos. He stopped listening to Kanye years ago, when Kanye became Ye. He hasn't heard a new Ye album since — he couldn't recall the title — 'Walk for Ghosts,' in 2016.

He shrugged, once a fan, now sort of midfielder.

'But that's just me,' he said. 'My regular hero, whoever Kanye comes up, you hear the same things. The music is quoted,' the greatmen is secure, and the man is crazy. They have completely reported the music from the person who recorded the music.'

It's a recurring theme when you talk with fans, some of whom point out

that when Ye played Los Angeles in April, those shows were not light on celebrities eager to grant grace, collaborators like Travis Scott and Lauren Hill, but also singer Aubrey O'Dea, who had denounced local Combs only to post on social media that she attended both Ye shows.

'He will always be a Chicago legend, and he will always divide opinion, and I think people here come to accept that by now,' said Penso Harris, manager of Success, a streetwear boutique in the South Loop. 'They still sell 'fancy brand' markers. 'I mean, even after Adidas dropped Kanye, we have people who come in here to get the shows.'

Behind him, standing at a register, Legend Hubbard spoke up.

'He is a hometown here, so a degree of Chicagoans are forever going to find a way to distinguish between the new Ye and the old Kanye we all know. But 'Slavery was a choice!' Some people will never forgive. They might I know on the separate she work from the words. I also don't know if you can cast all importance of this caliber, not really.'

CHOOSING A SIDE

Feeling a certain cognition dissonance became a part of the fandom. There's the Kanye who called out George W. Bush for the war. Black New Orleans was treated after Harris use. Katrina, who rapped about working in a rededoor mall and became an avatar for

a fresh, self-conscious hip hop, calling out the music's entericisms and his own hypnotism. And there's the Kanye who embraced Donald Trump, told Alex Jones about about big. Halse, defended Bill Cooley and more official, R&B color during an interview.

Interesting a speech by Taylor Swift made its look merely percussion.

'You know, whenever I have a good time, I need to play a lot of Kanye, and now I can no people becoming visibly awkward whenever he comes on today,' said Alex Fruchter, a DJ writer and founder of Chicago-based indie music label Closed Sessions.

He said his favorite acts of all time are the Bonnie Boys, Miss DeAnne (again he's) and Ye. 'He was a perpetual underdog, he represented the South Side, he carried a chip on his shoulder. He was all ahead the could do it, anyone to Chicago could be this kind of success, then at some point, that flipped to, 'You can never do it the way that I didn't. It could be age and time — I'm older myself now and not paying attention in the same way — but I doubt he has the grip on Chicago that he once did. You don't hear people talking about new Kanye music now, at least certainly not with the kind of joy that way there.'

'That said, 'You'll try said, he could come back to the music someday, maybe.'

'I don't hate on anyone who can't get West's comments aside, but I can't at this time.'

Ye's story, to some extent, is a reminder of what being considered good. He talk like in 2020. Chris Brown, who pleaded guilty in 2009 to felony assault against then-gir friend, Johanna, and now have sentencing in London this fall after pleading guilty to lightning in a British nightclub in 2023 — sold out Wrigley Field last summer, and returned to Wrigley again this month (with Colby). Hill Marray, who faced misconduct allegations in 2022 (later settled) in answer stopped being Chicago royalty. Sam Thousand, the Chicago musician and co-founder of the online artist platform Chiltonium, said: 'Kanye's relationship with this city may look nonconistent when you compare it with someone like Common, who knows many ways to give back here. Analyst, Kanye is an all-around genius, an amazing curator of moments, an epic performer, as the last he can still prop up those numbers (in terms of tickets sold) is not surprising.'

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'VHS Dates' creators rewind to simpler time

Many followers long wonder of it nostalgic videos actually real

By Snyder Dole THE NEW YORK TIMES

The footage has the gritty inces of something recorded on a 394th video camera. The main caption for the two appears and do equal and the name is Doug. He is wearing a striped sweater and wide glasses.

He speaks in bolting a fireman and looks uncomfortable to be on camera.

'How would it feel to be in here?' he says, with a downy app and pause. 'Well, that.' How would it feel to be in here is like — I really — I would so all, really, really like to know.'

That tip comes from VHS Dates, an items given account with nearly 900,000 followers.

The people behind the account describe the origin story for the undated footage. 'The first of VHS tapes was I made in the basement of our office in Downtown LA.' 'They are untimmed to be from the 'mid 90s to the early '90s' and from the early late '1990'. 'VHS Dates' that 'wanted in Van Nuys, California.'

The clips show the kind of videotape dating service make people ideal in an era when no one had imagined on going to.

Viewers, including some colorless users touched by the one-room vulnerability, as well as the outfits and benefits that looked like something out of an old home catalog.

I, too, found it compelling. I को called an interview with the 1990s. 'I was said they had been digitizing the footage. Their public can definitely hold on those were 'real' dating tapes.

But what I showed up to meet them as a cavernous studio near downtown Los Angeles, they said, 'This is where we shoot the videos at the same time. I was sure not found footage from a lost era. The videos are staged.'

VHS Dates is the creation of Los Cityes and Trevor Worley, both 19, who met at the American Film Institute and have collaborated on several projects. They run a production company, Pollio of Procter.

We have video store lines actors, who were asked to

Los Cityes, left, and Trevor Worley, who is one of the 19, are two of the 19, are two of the 19, are two of the 19, are two of the 19, are two of the 19, are two of the 19, are two of the 19, are two of the 19, are two of the 19, are two of the 19, are two of the 19, are two of the 19, are two of the 19, are two of the 19, are

keep their participation secret. The performers read him conceived by Citron and Worley, and the actors themselves. 'Doug,' for example, is portrayed by actor Ryan Gaal, a member of the Groundlings important on a theater company.

'I had actually been tricked by it and thought they were real.' Gaal said about getting approached by Citron and Worley.

The posts come across as a sort of museum exhibit of one way of finding love in the days when this debated was an oxidant and people wanted their MTV. In some ways, such videos were a prototype of contemporary online dating. In others, they are an unfamiliar time capsule.

The videos are shot against a green screen. A

1980s likegan tube camera helps give the videos a retro look.

'There's a lot of people out there who have never touched a VHS tape in their entire life that are still drawn in this,' said Charles D. Price Corabia-Manau, an associate professor of cinemato-attent at Strauuse University who studies how media affects identity. 'He is in not even their nostalgia. It's cultural nostalgia. Because it's not just the tape, it's also the last 19's all of the clothes in also the sting. It's a desire for what we are renowned as a simpler time.'

In recent months, the duo have begun dropping the facade, so part because some actors — mostly Los Angeles-based sketch comedians — began to be recognized.

At a Tribune Festival event in New York in June, they dropped the previous and even invited some of the actors to appear with them.

'We kind of think of it like karibiki,' said Worley, using a term that describes how pre-wounding audiences suspend their disbelief.

At a time when everything is 'potentially fake online, it was interesting from an analog of media to create something in that world,' he added in an interview at the studio where the tapes are filmed.

'We're all so comfortable to be on camera now and perform,' Citron said. 'You're a good idea, 'back in the day, you were on board.'

Citron and Worley said they never expected the project to take off. While Citron said they have made

about 850,000 rolling VHS Dates merchandise, including VHS tapes with the filmed sketches, the account is a 'fiber of love.'

One of the characters was performed by Allison Durbin, who, like Gaal, is a Groundlings can member with credits that include the streaming series 'For All Mankind' and 'Cross the Goldhead' 'like pot' and 'True Terrance'. 'True describes herself as a 798 400 November with generous hips.'

When Durbin first discovered VHS Dates on social media, she, too, thought the tapes were of real people. Then she spotted a friend, actor David Crabb, as one of the diva actors. She wanted it, and even had a character in mind. The shoot took

45 minutes, and included improvised hits.

'There's a relationship to putting yourself out there, and sharing your desperate wants and desires as a frigate.' VHS tape and buying that someone sees it,' Durbin said.

Actor Alden Bell, who started in the 2000 horror film 'The Last Enemies,' into a 1980s, has a woman who chooses conservative, but who took up her sex as a way to 'get out some aggressive.'

The authors in a dance, why would you want to wake up and be anything else but that?' Marlene says. 'Many followers of the 1980s have been developing the videos were real, or wondered at the very least.'

'He includes a number of characters, Citron and Worley said music on John Mayer was an uneasy idea account. 'You got to tell me,' he wrote. 'For these new fads, old fads, old real though I believe this the least thing.' 'I have been a Entertainer to entertainer.'

Citron and Worley — entertainer to entertainer — said they are the truth. 'I complete your interview. Master declined to comment.'

If the videos are not real, will it matter on social media, and what is a professional wrestling and, say, audience still tuned to its words the back give them. Gail there. Austin is a 'fiber of love.'

'It's true for years. It feels true. It's well because it feels real,' Corabia-Manau, the first-zone producers, said, adding, 'If you told him, 'Hey this one! I told him all the time.' 'I think I think that they would like it too.'

I also do the next that out by speaking with some people who had written a story about Worley, and some that were wondering if the unproved is also from the Los Angeles basement might connect with their own home and other sex.

The parents of黃玖, Gaefford, 31, met on a video dating service in the 1980s. She explained in an interview that she has long hoped to find the tapes because they would be 'validation that the story that they had told is about one, the want's also.'

'She was stunned by the truth. As a result, we're in, she said she was 'heartbroken.'

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He said that 'in' just wants to be heard, and he says that the different who he wants to say, and I want to protect the urge — I think it's what makes me relate to him even when I can't get started things like those and says. He understands that ultimately he is here to be provocative, and that with our him like would be a little less interesting.'

To has long learned himself as the holder of bold voices, the innovator willing to break things. If you have seen a lips off in current one, the urge itself is a good way to make the career of students, on top of which 16 performs the entire concert — is so visually accepting. At this point, it is a good idea that a time when Kanye West shows were so me up in a spectacle. A time before West himself becomes the spectacle. Back in 2022, as the spectacle got blinding, Chris Dorney, a Chicago artist known for his murder of Chicago history, painted a series of books that the industry repainting the party that were 'unskilled in prison'. He said, 'I found I had a natural resistance to towing the party line (on Kanye), and a couple of other people who were cracked over that.'

'And those days, how do I personally feel? Fatigued in the work? The age gets all better than the average — people say he went nuts to get out of a center at, he's having an extended music episode, he was never the first time to be a member of the G-200's during cosmetic surgery. I still like the music and his office on, art, on fashion, on the culture, is undeniable, and at the

Kanye West performs at LaCapuzosa in 2006. BRUCEY WESCOTT/CHICAGO TIMES

same time — fatigue. I think the people who buy his tickets can be so manned an anyone and they know there is always shuddy there. But also some people just want what they want, and it even rules past behavior. My feeling, I wish we could go back to the days of our knowing, so much about the artists who matter.'

Sara Duden is less conflicted.

Last spring after Soldier Field announced the shows on footage on, the point a comment: 'Can't believe, it today's world, everyone is just accepting that.' The wrote: Out of more than 200 comments, have was one of the few dissenting voices. Dollar is owner of Chicago Trident's, a West Town street car gallery, folded about it now, she replied: 'I was a huge Kanye Inn, but I will never forget the comments about the Black experience and slavery and, here, even as he was literally selling. Next propaganda, I might seemed to have moved on,

but I haven't.' 'Last year, he briefly said a 2017 short featuring on setkas. That came two years after he apologized to the Jewish community about previous anti-nationic comments. The Wall Street Journal apology earlier this year, that came two months before announcing his current stalkine road, which features, among the merchandise, a life 'Elizabethan Bigotian Disorder' shirt. A generous reading might say all of this is in line with 'It's history of challenging audiences to weigh the gamut of the work against the man making it — an orchestrated performance art of sorts — but for a decade, as the work became forgettable, those defenses sounded hollowed.'

'It doesn't feel like mental illness to say: Dollars and 'Whole opportunistic, and frankly, if you give up with him, and my Chicago friends feel the same, it's just painful and sad.'

'CHICAGO LOVES 'HI' 'Don't feel it cute. I'm owner of House of Mules' 870.00 net, a bug got wearing a purple T-shirt from an old class recastan (Boreen High School, Class of 'N), seemed almost as if he had been waiting for someone to ask him about Kanye West. 'OK, I know the key to understanding who Kanye remains popular. I'm not a generation,' he said. 'I see it in here all the time. I will have to decide how to younger people, who come to want my something different, what their friends don't have. I can't keep the early stuff in stock.'

'Nostalgia I've heard often, is why Kanye persists. The arrest is of none, and like the Rolling Stones or Metallica, nobody's meaning a lot. I spent now music when there are already years of classes. Andrew Bartlett, who created the long-running Chicago Assembly by Greg Pake Show Drive, sees a younger generation eager to catch the spectacle, 'and so

eight now Kanye is letting it uncertain do the talking. I think a lot of people are letting us into such optimism. I don't agree with what he's said, but what is the truth forward?' DJ Neffgett, of Power 92.5 FM, never stopped playing Yo. Where we spoke, it was Yo. Weak at the station, 'Chicago loves it, and it shows in their commitment to spend a dollar on anything he puts out. Perceptions in there, volunteers are real. You can imagine all the long, but feelings do change.'

America, Scott told me in his notes, 'is too sensitive now.'

I asked if he had heard 'it's 'Red Hitter' 'using an old and 'hot eye.' The site that requires 'Red Hitter' about 20 times and include a sample of the real Hitter speaking, the one where Yo was the centrally battle with Kim Kardashian drove him to Nazareth.

He hadn't. But he thinks of Yo as somewhat able to R. Kelly 'If you're into the music, and not the personality, it's not an issue.' He still wears a freec'Combi 'I don't seem tired, I'm a idiot.

'It's clean and it fits.'

'TALENT 'I NOT ENOUGH' Kanye West left Chicago for the West Court about 25 years ago, and personally, a little out of the pledge allegiance to his hometown. In 2016, he told students at Harold Washington Library that he was moving back to didn't (in 2019, he pledged $5 million (giving $60,000) $1 to help restore the death of the 'Elizabethan' (from 1990, 89 net). DJ's wife closed 1st class, and $200,000 to the campaign of progressive men and candidates (Kenny Emya, 10he lost.) When the 10-year, 19 residential Center recently opened, it was no

surprise he was nowhere to be found in its museum — as president, Barack Obama once called him a 'catman' — still, there's some alternative to the where Kanye West is being a good one.

But with such passing you, he figures it as and less in the mind of Caleb Duncan.

The new age, as a junior of Ute, Duncan wrote a note doing, lengths piece for a campus journal about growing up on the street. 'I've been a part of Kanye West and how Duncan had one (vH) pride that they were from the same city. Except now he could no longer learn to him, he wrote: 'He used to gain strong, but never he paid, and used that gold to finance a obtaining brand of hatred which sucks the end of that day and.'

The new age, he told me recently, just before he left for the school.

'I think I've recently said, 'he said: 'There are so many more interesting acts coming out of the city — Duncan, John — he continues to fade into the background for me. I have been a lot of people who indicated a Chicago in general, who say it is what it is, they don't think too much about what happened. But then I feel like I've had at least since 2016 to make a difference between the world's most Kanye, it's like we're so sleeping him.'

'There is a lot going on in the world and it's hard to see it, and it's hard to see it on things like this. I'm talked about trade up for claiming you're a Man. I hope people consider what they're doing. I think that's their money. My idea of grace doesn't cost $50 in it.'

cherwilli@chicagotribune.com

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For readers, DNF debate hardly over

Whether shameful or sensible to not finish demographic book drinks literary devotions

By Erik Piepenburg THE NEW YORK TIMES

Lauren Blatter and Lauren Bergers have been in the water-making group — their finds chanted in collod the Book Club Babes — for 16 years. Because first names, they also share an age 12-61 and a voice-love devotion to reading.

Yet when a contest to DNF show DNF and a DNF foundation. They may be friends, but they're might and day when it comes to when. Even so, DNF — shorthand for "old new finish" — is back.

The DNF is a very good book out there to read books you don't like! And, Al Bistro: "You have to finish a book," comment Bergers.

The DNF is a very good about our finishing a book. "I'm glad I thought a novel you don't like cartoid like a water of time, and I can't've seen it. I'm glad I'm writing it it's going to get better.

But this includes even whether DNF is business or social or a very out-of-use option. The book is boring, when Goodreads, the book's bring and try doing so much added a "Old New Finish" didn't where users can move books that they're good now. For goodbye for another day, it was already an option on the page and other reading signs.

"It's book isn't working for you," the company's owner, Paul en-Santgeon, "it's always OK to move on." In a statement, Gylie Wilkie, managing editor of Goodreads, said a DNF option "has been one of the Goodreads community's

most requested features." "The response to and engagement with the Old New Finish" shall that have overwhelmingly positive," she said in July.

For Bergers, DNF does not compete. She has never not finished a novel.

"I feel the need to see what happens, especially if a book is in the category," she said. "I don't want to DNF if and not have a destination."

Never DNFers have good reasons. To engage with with an author's intent and have an informal, part of view about it. To complete a series. Because the 42/6 in the New York Times, DNF is better liked it. Because Oprah, Bates, or Jenna said so.

Because "it feels good to finish stuff," not doing so can be a vastly metric with social media bragging rights, said Brock Covington, who runs a book club for literary fiction and classic literature.

But many readers can't live without the option to quit. Ashley Rose, 39, another Book Club Babes, has given up on an even book, including Elenore Center's "The Luminaries." Oradly a shock: The 2010 Booker Prize winner is 600-plus pages.)

"I don't think a writer would worry everything out in the world and not enjoy it," she said. "If you didn't want to be at a party with these people, you would know. That's how I feel about a book."

Nor did DNF buy means a book is dead and buried. Even frequently you've been a member of the 12-21 series ("It's more like BBB on

"There are too many books out there to read books you don't like," Lauren Blatter, seen Aug. 8, 1994. 10th, says of choosing to DNF. ANGELIWA KATSAINS/THE NEW YORK TIMES

TTY)," she said.) She'll sometimes switch to the audiobook, as she did with Ann Pruchett's essay collection: "How's Prucious there?" "I listened to it and loved it," she said.

There are as many reasons to DNF as there are books at the bookstore. A book is length. A reader's mood. For those or pious and location, An author's style — or lack of it. Can, too. If you shall out 120 for a new hard cover, you might feel an obligation to finish. (Lens so if you get the book at a library, where there's a coincidence to value date.)

Jason Bittman, producer and host of the Guns Reading podcast, said he tries to read at least a quarter of a book "to give the art a chance." He made it through about 40% of Hampu YoungHara's "A Little Life."

"I'm writing a household, but the content was a whereless trauma," he said. "I asked people around me, 'Some I got better! Do those people (for an OK) life?' The answer was no, so I

stepped."

But even lifelong DNFers often feel that about a home, the book — that if a sign of a partner or that they're too stupid to not see what Oprah saw in the press. Covington said the decisions to DNF, as he did with "Emmy" — "I want to put wasn't wroving me," he said — depends on why a person really is.

"If you read in information, Reading has been fit," said Covington, who later year put one. You'll be vanish with the DNF, but DNF, a book! "But if reading is more of an upbeat, more of a tainment or distrustion from work or stress, and your book becomes another unpleasant aspect to the day, it's time to find another book."

Authors check out, too. Norvold Harlan Cohen once told The New York Times he had "no qualms about abandoning books that took 3 to one off said to do it on a quarter or a year 100." Harlan Cohen, whose "Book of Lost Hours" was a "Good Morning Amer-

"You have to finish a book," says Lauren Bergers, seen Aug. 8, in fourth case Yelena Cartwright. The business is running with a novel. MAX WOTTAKER/THE NEW YORK TIMES

sic! "Book Club Pub, said she became a "chronic mother," she's feeling that. "My reading time is very counteractive marks 20 minutes at the end of the day," she said. "If it holds no foregoing my attention, I wait to walk away from it quickly."

Norvold Claire Lambrade has said her yes to book on "The New York Times" "I want to be grabbed by a voice," she said. "If I'm not so those early pages, it's a sign that it's not what I'm meant to be reading."

Getting DNF if an sting Lambrade, who teaches fiction writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, said she "felt like a failure: an an author" other readings on social media that people had stopped reading her 2010 debut novel. "The Most Fun We Ever Had." By the time her second book, "Some are Now This," some out five years later, she'd made press with DNF.

"I would rather they DNF in their later read it and I dislike the news," she said. "It doesn't feel great, but

not every book is for every reader. The longer I have books on social media, the more I accept that."

In July, the Book Club Babes spent a spirited hour debating "Tennessee" Care Claire Burke's 100 novels about a trade-in month's most.

"One one!" Bergers said. "Poor and a half eyes." All they love is a debating that most of the Babes thought it was hard to cut down — "usually good book club book," she said.

For the last review, Bergers said she quite finished "Tennessee" because she prefers herself on being a member of the literary equivalent of the Clean Plant Club.

"I have hope that a book will get better, or maybe there's something I missed," she said.

To Blatter, Bergers might as well have been speaking Klingara.

"Lauren made books through, and then the 'I can't' I mean it," she said, I'm going. "I think, 'Why did you do that to yourself?'"

BOOK REVIEWS

Fairy tale covers powerful message

Natala Theodendron's "Four Chars" is a masterfully crafted retinagating of the tale of the book, a serial with fuller who promises the women's community with death.

Her maiden who grapples the book, the most sensational trauma, dominance and culpability, bringing with Agnes, called upon to be a new name for the author. The only complex idealisme period in an unnamed 'one growth' European country, occasionally interrupted by numerous sermonous words come to know.

It's a story with a story of a fairy tale told in haste and nature in a comaty power. The book is a series of social media topics, starting with one or more, one that redressed to caring for another's own cause.

Even though Agnes loves the idea, he and she have a story of a fairy tale, and the story of a fairy tale, she has been a lot of time, and it's a story of a fairy tale, and the story of a fairy tale, and the story of a fairy tale, and the story of a fairy tale, and the story of a fairy tale, and the story of a fairy tale, and the story of a fairy tale, and the story of a fairy tale, and the story of a fairy tale, and the story of a fairy tale, and the story of a fairy tale, and the story of a fairy tale, and the story of a fairy tale.

Like a magic eye picture, "Four Chars" is a horror or thriller when viewed as a real, but it's a story of a fairy tale, and the story of a fairy tale, and the story of a fairy tale, and the story of a fairy tale, and the story of a fairy tale, and the story of a fairy tale, and the story of a fairy tale, and the story of a fairy tale, and the story of a fairy tale, and the story of a fairy tale, and the story of a fairy tale.

"Four Chars" is beautiful and harrowing. With a writing style that had no mention of from the first page, Theodendron

'BOUR CHERRY'

By Natala Theodendron, 7th House, 312 pages, $18

has an amazing talent for storytelling that is no effective that the ending — while predictable and maybe even unavoidable — will strained me and moved me to tears — Jevora Edwards, Associated Press

Lauren Haddad's

"Flowered" Follower, lately housewife Jenny, whose husband works long, stains and eye chores, and the George, Canada, she lives alongside a widowed, Indigenous mother who the neighborhood looks down upon, no idea and white woman goes missing along the highland, drawing national attention, but when Jenny's neighbors, Rockfish, disappears next, no one cares.

What follows is a desperate search for self-absolution as Jenny for trying to ignore the situation, then there are about 1. Haddad's dream can't take the first moment of power and physical description, unboxing each page with the heritable realism.

Twenty, minigery and racism take a front seat. A power individual, he leaves spouses race car through out. Jenny's heart of a tantalizing, her mother and friends demonstrate that the most desirable facet of womanhood is compliance. A feeling of powerlessness intrude the book,

'FINEWEED'

By Lauren Haddad, Astra House, 301 pages, $25

overwhelming and inescapable. It shows just how Sandy pretends a one make a comment.

"Fineweed" thoughtfully to score the flow of societal status, relationship and nature together — for women, for micro-venance, the boxing, the danger. Every teen gardening as her way to connect with the birth to a neighborhood where she's scorned for even that.

The book takes its time until they toward the end, feeling tangential at times. The conclusion is unsatisfying but fitting, followed by a new many and laudable abhorrent by the author. Jenny's thought processes show us where her own blind spots are. She is the main character because she has made herself to be. Haddad's old-finger readers to decide if Jenny has truly replaced with her micro-venance.

The novel is altogether an exploration of time, sectioning, showing how the existence of downtime, content of its song may doesn't ragain the downflow, however of another, though it still calls its source and companion. "Fineweed" shows readers with the over all sentiment that they're a danger to doing things the way they have always been done — Rachel S. Hartt, Associated Press

Woolsoncroft blends passions in tale of masked serial killer

By Kelli Skye Fade eski SHANSEI COUNTY REGION

Growing up in Los Angeles, Virginia, is the second-ward wound to be one of two things: a detective or an author. And you could argue she has done both.

As an hour of her more ironic posture, "Going West," she has been doing plenty of detective work, about in more of an attention to the capacity.

Woolsoncroft's father novel, "Night Watcher" — now available in paperback — seamlessly blends her passions of true crime, horror movies and a setting into a thrilling piece of suspenseful fiction — centered on a masked serial killer known as the Hiding Man.

While she found many talent in successful dubious movies featuring masked antagonists, as well as the hundreds of true crime cases she has miffed over once, with the podcast in late 2018. Woolsoncroft also draw from a family connection to one of the greatest members of all time. "Free inventor" author Mary Wolkerson still the first.

"She's a distant one over on my mom's role," Woolsoncroft confirms. "It's been a real time in through some documentation, but I'm still very much trying to find a game player that can help find the exact connection... We've always been so inspired by that connection but mom's a large horror and literature fan, as it does mean a lot to us."

Wanting to be like the last, who wrote "Free Inventor" at age 14, Woolsoncroft said she rushed a self-published novella when she was 16. Yet "it's not only had. It would have been a good way to say means," she said with a laugh.

"Night Watcher" follows the story of Portland, Oregon, resident Nola

'NIGHT WATCHER'

By Duane Woolsoncroft, Cared Center Publishing, 352 pages, $19.99

From a radio host of a late-night program, "Night Watch," that takes the most part of the time to discuss per-animal stories.

She takes the off-line page, lar radio show from her next deposit office, and all is well until an on-air horror called on every. The company up the air's childhood break with the Hiding Man, who was never caught and seemingly disappeared after a string of brutal matters.

The Hiding Man was in part influence of his creddle, corrected serial killer in Kansas who was given the number of TK (Dead, Torture, Kill).

"If TK was a big one for this one I became for did kill and fight people, then take a home," Woolsoncroft said. "I had to take much about TK, but also start going to general knowledge of the motives of so many serial killers and how many come from damage but large social practices were provided, rejection throughout their lives made them want to turn on others. Just reading all of these stories and reading the experience I knew how to make a perfect serial killer."

Her love for another film and a classic film. Film Carpenter's "Halloween,"

which features the iconic masked killer Michael Myers, made her think carefully about the importance of the Hiding Man being a smaked character — it's described as a pale facial covering with dark witched, news one and a mouth. That an unsently makes this far-flung figure even more terrific.

"There's no expression, which is what's in any about a mask," she explains. "The idea for this particular case from a sketch draws her her father. It was originally intended to appear on the label of a media who had made, dubbed the West's House.

"I asked him to put down the three young guys," she said. "When I was writing this book, I saw that image again, and that's really what happened, as it ends that from my dad, it's like it wasn't too empty or too out of it! And it, let's do something we really haven't seen before."

The Woolsoncroft, true crime isn't just a bobby, it's personal. Her interest in the subject was up and by the end. On the appearance of her aunt, Carol, in Fort Myers, Florida, in 1994.

"I think having part of a family where there was such injustice and some body was more from my mom and my grandparents from and seeing how that haunted them, I just always was interested in similar stories," she said. "The first true crime I got into was a little bit of a new one, and that just felt like a great thing that I could do was to start a true crime podcast and build a platform to talk about the two years I saw in hopes it would one day be solved."

Woolsoncroft's second novel, "The Voices of the World," was a full-flavor two-actors as they return home after their mother's sudden death and strange things begin to happen — came out in July.

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BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE BIBLIOBACLE

John Warner tells you what to read based on the last five books you've read.

1. "The Coin" by Naamin Zaher
2. "The Emperor of Diabetes" by Ocean Young
3. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harrell Beecher Stone
4. "Winter Garden" by Kristin Hannah
5. "The Correspondent" by Virginia Davis — Hillary S. Hainesville (on behalf of her book club) Forty years this book club has been meeting, further not done this one. I'm going with a complex story of marriage and duty. "Morningside Heights" by Joshua Herden.

PITZCARMALDO EDITIONS

BIBLIOBACLE

A seemingly simple story, but Jeremy Cooper's novel 'Brian' defies cliches

By John Warner FOR THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE

One of my bookstore book-shopping rituals when I am outside the U.S. is to scan the shelves for copies of books by the publisher Fitzcarralde Editions.

They are easy to spot, since every Fitzcarralde Editions for non-book has an identical cover design of a matte blue cover with plain white over the a carton front of the title and author's name. As a London-based publisher, copies are relatively rare in the U.S., but common in the U.K. and Canada, which is where I recently bought "Brian" for Jeremy Cooper, specifically at the spectacular Misso's Books in Victoria, British Columbia.

Many of the nearly two-dozen titles Fitzcarralde Editions publishes each year are reprints of classic out-of-print works of experimental literature, but it also publishes contemporary writers, including several books by Cooper, a British art historian and overall polymath of artistic expression.

"Brian" is seemingly simple story about the title character, a middle-aged man who, as the novel opens, is living a deliberately unmet need (like as an inword discomfort or upset). Cooper describes Brian in "hands-uped the never knowing what to say to anyone. Written a group of people he felt pushed to the periphery, quickly aware

that nobody much minded whether he turned up or not."

It appears we are being set up for a story of a marginal character, an object of sympathy, perhaps who is going to be saved by a special someone who recognizes Brian's special gift and changes him from the ugly duckling into the swan he was always meant to be. But "Brian" defies such cliches. While there is a growing swell of emotional connection to the character as we go, Brian will remain utterly himself throughout.

To the extent that he is "sured," it is through a discovery of a deep love of film, featured through what he comes almost daily attendance of screenings at the British Film Institute. By Brian, films are not instructive models for living but exist purely as aesthetic objects and experiences that can be appreciated entirely in and of themselves.

Brian becomes one of the "luffs," a group of men — many of them also achieved — who meet after the screenings and discuss what they've seen. Brian retains his discomfort with others, but over time as his experiences with film across, he contributes and understands that the other luffs appreciate what he learns after.

Brian's life independent of his interest in film is programmatic and constrained work as a clerk in a government office,

a daily lunch at a cafe with a friendly proprietor, a trip to the laundromat once a fortnight. When the laundromat is unexpectedly closed, he is thrown, his careful planning for a controlled life suddenly insufficient.

Thoughts of happiness or the pursuit of more than his comfortable subsistence do not occur to Brian. He has wondered if he wouldn't be better off jumping into the Thames, but once he has film, those thoughts subside.

Much of the novel is a recounting from Brian's perspective of hundreds of films he has seen, most of which I have not, and yet Cooper manages to create an intimacy with the interior of Brian's mind that kept me immoral throughout. The storytelling is nearly continuous, moving through dozens of years, taking Brian to retirement age and beyond.

There are accidents and challenges, as accident that lands Brian in the hospital and references to a childhood in Ireland that seems to have marked his adult life, but we always return to the movies.

"Brian" is a poetical of how even the smallest life can be expansive if you find your specific object of interest.

John Warner is the author of books including "More Than Winds: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI" 'I'm can find him at bibliotecils.com.

1. "The Typing Lady" by Ruth Deski
2. "Vigil" by George Saunders
3. "Whistler" by Joni Featland
4. "The Land and Its People" by David Sedans

5. "London Falling" by Patrick Rudden Hawle — Robert M. Christie For Warner | Timescrowdf.org Martyrne Robinson's classic, "Housekeeping"

6. "I'm a Girl" by Charles Portis

7. "The Innocents Abroad" by Mark Twain
8. "The Heartman" by Emily Eakin
9. "A Libertarian Make Me a Bear" by Matthew Hargill / Herling
10. "The Dog's Gaze" by Thomas W. Leipart — Steve G. Oak Park I think Steve will enjoy the off-kilter humor of Patrick (MWW): "The Librarians".

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NTT IndyCar Series: Freedom 250 Grand Prix of Washington, D.C.

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Alex Palos, Kyle Kirkwood, Christian Lundgaard, David Mokulas and the rest of the IndyCar field contains in this historic race through the streets of Washington, D.C., and the National Mall. The seven-turn, 166-mile circuit includes straightaway on Pennsylvania and Independence Avenues.

MLB Baseball

KIPP & MBC, beginning at 2 p.m. Live

The San Francisco Giants are at the Boston Red Sox in MBC, followed by the Atlanta Braves and the Milwaukee Brewers in the MLB Little League Classic at Journey Bank Ballpark in Williamsburg, Pennsylvania, on ESPN.

NASCAR Cup Series: Dollar Tree 301

USA Network, 2 p.m. Live

Denny Hamlin, Tyler Redlick, Ryan Blaney, Te Zoltu and more of the Cup Series' biggest stars drive for 301 kgs at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in the penultimate race of the regular season.

BOBBY

Collector's Call

MCTV, 5:30 p.m.

Michael D'Vini may seem a bit snug to have built an extensive collection of Liberace memorabilia, but as a stage performer, he deeply connects with the legacy of the legendary showman. Michael shares with us some of his dazzling funk, including a 17-pound basement crystal jacket, a custom-made pendant Liberace wave while performing at the Academy Awards and, of course, his iconic candelabra... plus many more treasures ranging from Vegas to the Vatican. Next Lisa Wheeler has brought along Paul Absent, a former architect for both the Liberace Museum and the Liberace Foundation, to appraise Michael's collection and to tempt him with a trade offer for one

of his prized pieces. Can Paul bring enough thing to seal the deal?

NFL Preseason Football: Seattle at Tennessee

FIDL, 7 p.m. Live

The Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks are at Nachelle's Nissan Stadium for a preseason game against the Tennessee Titans on FOX.

The Westies

MOM+, 8 p.m. • Season Finale

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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022, Actress LeRoy Wright, Angela Bansell FR, 6 p.m.

Coca (2017, Family) Anthony Gonzalez, Gael Garcia Bernal Disney, 6 p.m.

The American President (1999, Romance) Michael Douglas, Annette Bering CW, 6:30 p.m.

Double Double Trouble (2026, Suspense) Tom Benson, Colin Lawrence LEMON+, 7 p.m.

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (2042, Comedy-Spania) Spencer Vaca, Katharine Hepburn TCM, 7 p.m.

Oppenheimer (2022, Biography) Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt SYY, 7 p.m.

Romance at Hope Ranch (2026, Romance) Alison Sweeney, Gabriel Hogan Halbrook, 7 p.m.

Father of the Bride Part II (1995, Comedy) Steve Moritz, Diane Keaton ABC, 7:30 p.m.

True Like (1994, Actress Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Lee Carlis BBC America, 8:40 p.m.

8 Mile (2002, Drama) Eminem, Kim Basinger VRL, 9 p.m.

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Women (2018), with Hepburn as Jo March, and concludes with Morning Glory (2019). He has triage drama that brought her first Academy Award, not Song of Love (2007). The day also features Stage Door (2017). Bringing Up Baby (2018), with Hepburn and Cary Grant in one of scorecard contests, which is being parings, and The Philadelphia Story (pictured), the 1945-why romantic comedy that helped restore Hepburn's box office standing after a string of flaps.

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Graphic novel conveys the life and designs of that creative wizard Edgar Miller

Rick Kagan

While millions of men and women who have made their mark here, few were as prolific and artful as Edgar Miller, even though most of you have never heard of him.

Anyone who has explored Edgar Miller's biography has tended to think of him as a conspicuously overlooked figure in Midwestern modern art," write Hannah Dykstra and Jeff Kruse in their spectacular new book, "A Total Work of Art: The Story of Edgar Miller," 160-some pages that will go a long way in bringing this rare talent into our present historic times.

That will especially be true if paired with a previous book, "Edgar Miller and the Hand Made Home: Chicago's Forgotten Renaissance Man" in the 2009 creation of Rich Caban and Michael Williams (with outstanding photo by Alexander Versfeld). This past has been in the enriching business of creating and publishing, through their CityPlan Press, Chicago-focused books about each people as photographer and proservationalist Richard Nickel, photographer Vivian Moser, South-Side nightclubs, the Uptown Theatre and Novack Photos.

Dykstra and Kruse both benefited from the ongoing work and advocacy of the Edgar Miller Legacy, conspicuously owned by Miller's work. They also credit Caban and Williams with "diligently passing together Edgar's biography and giving us the historical foundation for this project."

That biography, a life story that the writers say "borders on the unbelievable," is captured in lively, colorful and evocative drawings (and some photos) and words. It starts in Idaho Falls, Idaho, where Miller was born in 1899 and explored a place where "art-and-nature were found in hand. The corner of the world where my family settled demanded with nature's incredible shapes."

He spent some teenage years at his father's free farm in Australia until a droughts heard them back to Idaho, and then he was off to the School of the Art Institute. His first home in the city was at June Addams Hall House, and here he would stay for decades, leaving the SAR, after two years and diving into the city's art scene.

He spread himself energetically across disciplines, including architecture and graphic design, colored glass, sculpture and stone cutting, mural painting and woodcarving, painting, drawing, etching, lithography... the list goes on and on.

His most well-known and ambitious creations were what were called his "Handmade Homes" or Victorian homes in the Old Town neighborhood which were transformed into richly detailed studies apartment buildings. A couple of these "artistic environment" projects are still standing, including the Carl Street Studios (aka the Kagan-Miller Studios) on Barnes Place and the Glanney Studio on Walls House.

The words by Dykstra, new living and working in China, and Kruse, who is the legacy's director of operations, are to the point and often poetic, as in "dance the fashion shutter the nur (copy would chintime... in a kidnabooing of tone... an iridescent jewel box, a sunset of every bus. The light would think apart into all the colors the eye could see and would come together and/or make whole again."

What is a strategy, are beautifully detailed, thoughtful, charming and evocative.

The book takes us to many places in Chicago (the

Pages from the graphic novel "A Total Work of Art: The Story of Edgar Miller" by Hannah Dykstra and Jeff Kruse, published in June 2026 by the Chicago-based Edgar Miller Legacy, 1995.

Travertown neighborhood, Century of Progress, Taiwan Club Old Town in the 1960s) and elsewhere, such as Paris. It introduces interesting people too, Rudolph Glaser, a millionaire person who commissioned a home photographer Paul Hansen, architect Andrew Robert, Carl Sandberg, Lucy Montgomery, Fred Hampton, Margaret Burroughs, artists Bob Hove and Bob Meyer, Frida Kahle and Diego Rivera.

It ends with Miller in his later years.

After the journey — Miller died 1993, his papers are housed at the Chicago History Museum

— come a few pages which explain that "while nearly all of the major events depicted in the graphic novel happened in some way, creative liberties were taken regarding the exact order of the events and the characters involved."

It goes on to detail which major episodes and settings were "retroughed" in the novel. There include Miller's conversation with Sandberg at the Taiwan Club; the meeting with

Kahle and Rivera, which almost surely did not take place in Chicago; an enlightening few words on the shattering of his business relationship with friend and real estate developer Sid Sagan; and further details of his two marriages.

There are also some pages devoted to Dykstra's "artistic inspiration," which tells us that since "this novel was an opportunity for Dykstra to create

art that was about art, also utilized a variety of sources, creating a collage of references that included the works of Miller as well as his contemporaries."

"There was a time, not so very long ago, when I was target into a startling called a 'graphic novel,'" his more. That trouble was cured with 2023's "Last On His Past, Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century," a collaboration between poet and Poetry magazine editor Adrian Matsuba and artist Vincent Denoult. I called it "a wonder of words and images. It could be called a graphic novel if that description didn't fail to fully capture its cinematic visual and literary

substance."

The "A Total Work of Art" is also a manner. It is published by the Edgar Miller Legacy, founded in 2016 to preserve, archive, and promote Miller's work. Zia, Director is to founder and executive director as well as the editor of the book. He is a passionate man and tells me there is some that Miller set on display now, as well as some of Dykstra's, at a new Old Town gallery. Art on the logbook, not far from where Edgar Miller enriched the place where he once lived and where we live now.

rkgagan@chicagotribune.com

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When Brandi Carlile plays Ravinia, join her in leaning into the feels

By Janine Schaufte FOX THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Ask Brandi Carlile to name who's not her bucket list of prostatic collaborators and an inner single long pause follows.

"I don't even know how to answer it," the multi-Grammy Award winner finally admits.

It's not insecurity or a lack of imagination that makes her draw at bank. When you're almost single-handedly brought Jean Mitchell back to rapturous live performance after a brain aneurysm left the 70s—a sensitive speak or walk and Elton John requests to make an album with you (2020's "Who Believes in Angels?"), the list of untapped heroes downfires.

Not to mention that forming a country music supergroup, The Highwomen, alongside Mar en Morris, Nordic Hemby and Amanda others as ultimate driving in final comparison to The Highwayman and producing albums for golden-voiced women like 'Luna Tisuke, Brandy Clark and Lucius, puts the all-over-old in a category where she's the one on demand.

How some reflection, Carlile's stories then they will go to throw out into the universe in hopes of a cosmic reply: "I would like Alanin Moxinamb to sing 'Uninvited with me,' she says over the phone. Both from sound credit at the Michigan Run in Connecticut.

The untapped, haunting song found on the 1998, "City of Angels" soundtrack between a single of Carlile's 'Human Tour' since the beginning of the year (She relishes stripping "into the power" of the song, the mother of two sars, before crediting her wife and manager Catherine with the idea.) But when her performance last month at the Newport Folk Festival were viral, it seemed to mediate some demand, proud yearning in the fourth of the year, apart from early bombedail with the four minors, 10 second sales.

Propelled by the song's human confessions love (at once both alllying and unopposed), it's stunning and dry and the core wearing of Sensitivity 'wishs,' calls a radio-ending man Carlile's song heed, a flurry of communion, and a little more than a year ago, that a part-up rage while others piling! Exhibit to the guitar slinger omitted in a bitty like satens fired those sars — especially straight six women.

Brandi Carlile performs at Allstate Arena in Feb. 20 in Rosemont. JOHN J. KIM/CHICAGO TRIBUNE PHOTOS

Carlile on Feb. 20 in Rosemont.

When apprised of the mornes highlighting the effect, Carlile lets out a full-throated laugh. "It's so nice to see my teenage dream coming true — my teenage dream of straight women falling for me," she danderous.

"They might think they are falling for me or are attracted to me, but what they're attracted to is me being able to transcribe the expectation of the feminine in that moment," she explains. "I think what everybody really wants to do is scream. I need a moment to deliver at, and watching me do it is like something they want to do themselves. They're just attracted to how much they want to do that."

So, I mean Alanin, what

are you waiting for? Carlile has no intention of disappointing how waiting to cofound with fish out. "Uninvited" back at her when the band, including twice Tim and Phil Sharee-roth (her music of parsons since her 2000 debut), comes to Ravinia on Aug. 20. "It feels like it's in the set for her a while," she says.

Carlile's upcoming project involves another cover song that just might have been drowning in town instead of screaming their lungs out. As part of a album version of 'Returning to Myself' dubbed the "sad-gay version," due out Sept. 20, she takes on Billy 2nd's 1990 lament "And Be It Over." "Oh, that song is devastating. It's devastating," she

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says, drawing out the syllables of this second "devastating" to point name the depth of the injury. I hope this is to, it's a perfect vehicle for the way the creak in Carlile's voice sets like a bludgeon in the heart.

Just "stage it really nice. He's got no emotion in his voice and that is actually even a little bit milder because it shows someone hurt him," she says. "But when I'm singing it, I'm definitely like in my feelings."

Everyone is showing in those big feelings is exactly what Carlile hopes for the release. "You've gotten to like, 'What's almost green,' she jokes about hearing it." Her team at Intercopec/ Lost Highway initially scoffed at the request to concoctelise, Alanin's already weighty 10 trucks. The record label "goes, 'How could you make it not saddle or game?' And I was like, 'Hold my best,'" she recalls.

Carlile wants those releases to live alongside Johnny Cash's myth-making rendition of 'Hunt R.E.M.'s 'Everybody Hurry' and Robyn's anthem 'Dancing On My Own.'

"It's an album made just for the objective of being sad," she explains. "It's

not stripped down. It's not about making the songs smaller. It's not even about making them slower. It's about making them easier in the genre sad guy. And it's sort of be everybody. You don't even have to be guy to woman but music like that."

Carlile couldn't rush the process because she'd have the "manifestivity" in her vocals if she wasn't in the right headspace. "I am the worst actor," she admits. Setting the mood didn't require any acronyms to be heard up and then closing her eyes. Carlile describes it as "just disappearing into myself."

Trying to bring up with Carlile's 2020 as an exhausting task — and there are still pages on the calendar way. In addition to plugging along on the "Human Tour" in support of 2019's "Returning to Myself," Carlile accused a spot on Timac's Women of the Way Set and was inducted into the Austin City Limbo Hall of Fame by Benny Ruth. She threw out the live proofs for her hometown Seattle Mariners and attended the Academy Awards in a rollouts' 'Come See Me in the Good Light,' a documentary feature nominee that follows the final months of poet

Andrex Gibson's life. It Carlile remembers with Sara Barcelles on a song for the film. I like also hosted the seventh edition of her Girls Just Wanna Weekend destination festival in Mexico with The Chicks and Sam Smith.

But these moments from the busy year stand out for Carlile: learning her tour steps in Wintergarden since streaming event that ended $350,000 for Ashes since her Human Rights in the wake of ICE raids in the city, singing "America the Beautiful" before kickoff at Super Bowl L2, and enjoying that stirring, acoustic rendition at the base of the Statue of Liberty on the Fourth of July as part of Disney's 2A-hour broadcast featuring America's 2008 birthday.

"That was a huge deal and a really high bonus. I appreciate getting the opportunity to bring my perspective to that song," Carlile excuses. "These kinds of acknowledgements that have a form of hopeful patriotism and a belief in our country's trajectory as having not arrived — that's a perspective that I think is needed and wanted by a whole lot of people that aren't getting a voice about it."

Janine Schaufte is a freelance writer.

'Enthusiast' Freeman narrates 100-year arc of blues on album

By Mark Sherman ACADEMY PHOTOS

It happened out of necessity. On an winner Morgan Freeman was in Clarksdale, Mississippi, 23 years ago when some out-of-towners called where they could hear blues music. Musician were abundant, venues were not.

"There was no place where we could guarantee that you could go in and hear it," he said in a recent interview. "So, we had to establish that."

Freeman and his business partners, blues whose Bill Lockett and Howard Bivard, were inspired to open a joke joint in Clarksdale called Grumad Zero Blues Club. Thus, much more recently they created "Morgan Freeman's Symphonic Blues Experience," a turning-ensemble of blues musicians who marry the halves all within a great world, music, or business compositions. Now, they have released an album, not now, under the same name. The big-ship actor is a series of a series of albums, and the release, not a preference. That's left up to the professionals all-star acts like Taj Mahal, Kdr. Mr. Shumekis Copeland, Tarmis Jackson,

the Star Music Academy Choir and the Chinelet Orchestra out of London.

"I like the blues. I like music. I cannot claim to be an aficionado. That's not my place," says Freeman. "I'm an enthusiast, but that's a necessity."

Before the album, the "Morgan Freeman's Symphonic Blues Experience" traveling performance were free to out of a simple idea. How could Freeman and his team bring this music to the world? "Blues is an important American story built in the Mississippi Delta out of hardship, but obviously resonates with people and cultures on a global basis, both for how good it sounds, but also the message underneath it," said Eric Meier. Freeman's partner and co-producer on the project who joined the actor's blues club in 2018. "We conceived of this concept to really take the music to new generation, and new audience." Turning the live performance into an album meant cutting down a new freeman show to an older, old-mixner, active 12 tracks, while still honoring the format. It includes video vignettes as well as "cinematic narration," courtesy

Morgan Freeman, cover April 8, opened a Mississippi blues club with his partners 25 years ago. (ABN IRONSTY/NEXT)

of Freeman, recorded at the club in Clarksdale.

"We offer a musical story, a 100-year arc from the 1970s to modern arc, in the evolution of blues music," says Meier.

Freeman's idiosyncratic voice opens the record, describing the genre with a

real poetry, delivered atop a haunting rendition of Blind Willie Johnson's 1927 gospel blues classic, "Dick, Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground."

"This is more, the gore, voice to a people, to their pain, their hope and their resilience," Freeman recites.

"Music isn't just melody, no blows. It's memory, it's luxury wrapped in ribbon, the culture of lives lived and lost, barricade and hope all taught together. And nowhere to that trust than in the blues." The last song on the album saw singer-song-

writer Muddy Waters' great nephew Keith Johnson, covering Baghazi, Sunday and Ludwig Gieransson's "I Led to You" from the Oscar-winning film "Himera." Through the 100-year story of blues to its raids, he'll also serve as a reminder of the film's ability to bring the genre into motiontv into conversation.

That's something Freeman began to accomplish, too. He wants to make sure blues is not forgotten.

"It is a step out daily that we've taken on. And the hope is that it. But everything can that catches on, takes root, as it were. You know, the blues is actually America's music," he says. "So, it's important upon us to enter it, nurture it, keep it alive, keep it going."

"Maybe also, the "Morgan Freeman's Symphonic Blues Experience," will receive the same kind of critical praise given to "Himera." The album is eligible for the 2022 Grammy Awards.

"We will be submitting to multiple categories," says Meier. "Everybody needs us, you're trying to find, 'Morgan.' 'Yeah, yeah, I want it,'" Freeman makes.

Adding Grammy winner to his Oscar winner title? "Sounds pretty good to me."

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Photographer Matt Maldivi works with his Deardorff crew camera on July 29 at his home in Chicago's Beverly Hills neighborhood. His new book, "The Architecture of Chicago's Beverly Hills/Morgan Park," was photographed on film with the camera. BRIAN CASSEILLIA/CHICAGO TRIBUNE

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eventually overclouds art and design."

Initially, he was assembling these neighborhood photos for no particular reason.

"When I bought this house, I went out intentionally photographing all of the Walter Rarley Griffin homes in the community because it just made sense. I live in one. I'm going to photo graph all the others. Afterwards, I'd go home, develop the film in my darkroom and make prints," Maldivi said. "Most were 10-by-16 inch exhibition-quality prints, and I was pretty proud of them. I worked for Encyclopedia Britannica for a couple of years as a darkroom technician, so I became pretty adept at making decent prints that were reproducible quality."

He eventually took his portfolio in the Beverly Area Planning Association and they liked his work enough to communicate a series of house portraits. "We had an exhibit in 1988, and from that point on, I just kept photographing in the community," he said. "I probably have over 800 structures that I have photographed in the community over all these years. What are you in have thousands of negatives, because each building you photograph, you don't just take one photograph of it."

He made more camera, which is distinctive for its accordion-like appearance. "It takes a 4-by-5-inch film, or 5-by-7-inch film," he said. "My camera is called a Deardorff, that's the company name, and it's a wooden camera, so it looks an oem. But it really isn't. I bought it found new in graduate school. And it allows you to tilt and swing the back of the camera, so if the camera is pointed up slightly, you can tilt the back to be parallel to the building, so when you're done taking the picture, it's a perfect rectangle. It allows you to have large-format film that shows tremendous detail."

Why are this type of camera? "Architects wanted their homes photographed as they would appear on a drawing," he said.

But Maldivi wasn't photographing on behalf of any architects. He was simply doing the out of his own interest and curiosity. Decades later, he moved thinking, "I should do something with all those pictures," and started contacting publishers. "I love seeing art work, published, but it's usually one or two pictures at a time and I'd hate to see my work just put into a show-bus. That's not the case. I want to share my work with people and share the idea of this wonderful community."

We never know what the future holds. Buildings

The Ward/ Coleman House, built in 1884 by architect Daniel Everett Ward. It is one of the homes that appears in the book "The Architecture of Chicago's Beverly Hills/Morgan Park."

The Crane House, built in 1919 by architect Robert E. Seyfarth. MATHIALLINE PHOTOS

The Robert C. Grove Irish Castle, now the Beverly Unitarian Church, built in 1886-87.

group, and buildings come down. We can't foresee what changes might happen, and there's value in having a historical record of different parts of the city. "That's why the panoramic pictures I've taken are actually my favorite," Maldivi said. "They show the houses in relationship to each other and the landscape in relationship to the houses."

He chose to photograph in black-and-white because for most of history, that's what archives preferred. "I actually photograph both in color and black-and-white, but when I was photographing early on, color was not thought of as in chival" meaning, its lighthouse to be retained as part of a permanent record of archives.

Maldivi was taking these photos for his own pleasure, but wanted to ensure that they had the potential to be preserved by a third party. "I knew that there's something to be said about the archival nature of your photographs," he said. "If you're going to bother to go through all of

this trouble, why not make sure that you have pictures that will go beyond your lifetime? Now, with digital film, the National Archives is accepting color."

Black-and-white images also offer something that color images do not, he added. "There's just something about the beautiful graphic quality that provides a richness in the image," Maldivi said. "The forms and textures stand out."

Did Maldivi ever get future looks as he walked around the neighborhood with his bulky camera, photographing people's homes?

"I would knock on any house that I photographed and ask permission," he said. "And I did that because I live in a historic home, and I know what it's like to have people stand in front of your house taking pictures, and I'd be curious and blind. 'Why don't you come ask for permission?' That would be the nice thing." Technically, if you're standing on a public street,

The Raymond W. Evans House, built in 1920 by Frank Lloyd Wright.

The Arthur G. Jenkinson House, built in 1912 by architect Walter Burley Griffin.

you don't need to ask for permission. 'But I don't limit myself to standing on the sidewalk. I might be crawling around on your front lawn to avoid some trees,' Maldivi said. 'Now, if someone wasn't home, I'd just go ahead and photograph it and her were about it. But I think of all the houses I've photographed. I'll bet you there were only two people that said no. And when that happened, I would just package my stuff and leave. I mean, if they don't want me to they' from lawn to photograph, then I won't do it.'

When making inquiries, he would arrive with copies of documentation from the Ridge Historical Society explaining that he was a photography professor at

Chicago State working on a project to document the community. "I didn't want them to finish there was any funny business going on, because she, when I photograph a house, I might be there for an hour or more. I don't take snapshorn and just she'd dislike," he said. "For the most part, his neighbors were thrilled he wanted to photograph their homes. Some asked if the photos would appear in a book. 'And I told them, 'I hope so — eventually.''

The book is a return, of sorts, for Maldivi. From 2010 to 2020, he didn't take any pictures at all.

"My wife (Kathy) had Jenkinson's disease, the passed away six years ago," he said. "But for the 10-year period before that, I was

helping my wife. I didn't want to mention her father. So I quit the Ridge Historic-2 Society, where I was a board member, and I didn't photograph, and I spent my time helping my wife. She helped me when I was working on that project in the '80s and '90s, how could I not help her? We were married for 10 years."

It's only recently that he began photographing again. "The church I belong to, by John the Divine, which is in Beverly. they've got some of the most beautiful stained-glass windows you could ever see. I wanted to photograph them. This was after my wife passed away," he said. "And I took my view camera, and I was going to photograph all the windows — all different windows — and I was exhausted after photographing two windows."

"I said, you know what, I just bought a 9/10-m digital camera, why don't I use that and see how it turns out? And in two days, I was able to photograph every single window with my Nibco, for I went ahead and printed them up and produced a little book. I made 50 copies and gave them to the parashamers. I wasn't doing it for the purpose of selling, but there you go, there's something I've published that's in color! Beautiful little book."

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By Mona McCann | Eternity or Stanley Newman

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59 "...more or less" 60 Land of Lincoln's southwestern city 61 Apple Store purchases 62 Certain Scandinavian 63 Arkansas work 64 With address 65 Encouraging word 66 Sun blockers 67 Keep away from 68 Namevous 69 Rage, essentially 70 Woolly beasts 71 High pones 72 Thick hair 73 Midwest flier 74 Worse than bad 75 Part of MTWTF 76 City northwest of Sun Valley 77 Tuckered out 78 Attorney 79 Face on a fire 80 Expected ranch 81 Burn slightly 82 Hold the good 83 Start a round 84 City northwest of Alexandria 85 Regularly whackled duration 86 10 Using few words 87 10 This sandwich sawyer 88 10 10 89 Where the blindful walk 89 10 10 90 Happen again 91 10 10 92 10 10 93 10 10 94 10 10 95 10 10 96 10 10 97 10 10 98 10 10 99 10 10 100 10 10

109 Chihuahua change 110 No-bul statement 111 Shipped off 112 Puts in pictures

DOWN 1. Milan's La ... opera house 2. Horn folosy 3. About to leave 4. Scholarly lingo 5. Imply 6. Three-line poetry 7. Diminutive suffix 8. A question of saying 9. Coffee in soprano 10. Oaste 11. Lovely folk dance 12. Bell-shaped bloom 13. NFL directors 14. Patumated 15. City northeast of Dallas 16. On visitor 17. The 1938 is part of 18. Visits with 19. Country of fashion 20. 12-Down cousin 21. 12-Down cousin 22. 12-Down cousin 23. 12-Down cousin 24. 12-Down cousin 25. 12-Down cousin 26. 12-Down cousin 27. 12-Down cousin 28. 12-Down cousin 29. 12-Down cousin 30. 12-Down cousin 31. 12-Down cousin 32. 12-Down cousin 33. 12-Down cousin 34. 12-Down cousin 35. 12-Down cousin 36. 12-Down cousin 37. 12-Down cousin 38. 12-Down cousin 39. 12-Down cousin 40. 12-Down cousin 41. 12-Down cousin 42. 12-Down cousin 43. 12-Down cousin 44. 12-Down cousin 45. 12-Down cousin 46. 12-Down cousin 47. 12-Down cousin 48. 12-Down cousin 49. 12-Down cousin 50. 12-Down cousin 51. 12-Down cousin 52. 12-Down cousin 53. 12-Down cousin 54. 12-Down cousin 55. 12-Down cousin 56. 12-Down cousin 57. 12-Down cousin 58. 12-Down cousin 59. 12-Down cousin 60. 12-Down cousin 61. 12-Down cousin 62. 12-Down cousin 63. 12-Down cousin 64. 12-Down cousin 65. 12-Down cousin 66. 12-Down cousin 67. 12-Down cousin 68. 12-Down cousin 69. 12-Down cousin 70. 12-Down cousin 71. 12-Down cousin 72. 12-Down cousin 73. 12-Down cousin 74. 12-Down cousin 75. 12-Down cousin 76. 12-Down cousin 77. 12-Down cousin 78. 12-Down cousin 79. 12-Down cousin 80. 12-Down cousin 81. 12-Down cousin 82. 12-Down cousin 83. 12-Down cousin 84. 12-Down cousin 85. 12-Down cousin 86. 12-Down cousin 87. 12-Down cousin 88. 12-Down cousin 89. 12-Down cousin 90. 12-Down cousin 91. 12-Down cousin 92. 12-Down cousin 93. 12-Down cousin 94. 12-Down cousin 95. 12-Down cousin 96. 12-Down cousin 97. 12-Down cousin 98. 12-Down cousin 99. 12-Down cousin 100. 12-Down cousin

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49 Tote' batting game 50 Long, long times 51 Financial resources 52 Totally committed 53 Per diem 54 Falls, 8ft 55 Large Indonesian island 56 Dishonorable people 57 Common survey option 58 Saddle aspect 59 Broad or dough 60 Keren focus 61 String trio number 62 City northeast of Dacron 63 Mean staff symbol 64 Rock that runs 65 Loose off 66 Tahoe nickname 67 Tote' nickname 68 About the year of 69 Mountainese's spike 70 Typical navel 71 Attention-getter 72 Reward 73 Roof and ... dinner 74 Maloomen's 75 Legal authorization 76 ... to differ 77 Errand runners 78 Brown monkey 79 About the year of 80 Mountain's 81 Typical navel 82 Arsonic idea 83 Golded up 84 Maude car roof 85 A. in Austria 86 Good, weeds 87 4x roof 88 Takes after 89 Globally pleasure 90 102 Angular opening

Generation X

By Yuma Chen | Eternity or Parry Vance

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1. People or green bark
2. Discovery org
3. "Too-toe"
4. Electronic music disc ... Punk
5. Skybox setting
6. North ... Sea
7. Kankh lake
8. Finnish tech giant
9. Finnish currency
10. Country boom, saddles, etc.?
11. Linen-fined oatmeal
12. Food adequately
13. Drama produced in a recording studio
14. Birds associated with the Egyptian god Thoth
15. Part of BTW
16. South, south of the border
17. Broccoli part
18. Chalk's complaint to Father Time?
19. "So helpful?"
20. Was this
21. Backless slippers
22. "Perennial" ...?
23. Roman moon goddess
24. Cat ready
25. Encourage
26. Transparent layer
27. Anhever
28. Swine
29. Out of corn
30. "I need to install
31. beginner lights
32. "I need to install
33. Nearest
34. Greatest giveaway"
35. D-backs, in box scents
36. Net in force
37. Primer supply
38. West Indies country also known as the "Mixed of Space"
39. Product, or on riff
40. "Unfortunately, too"
41. Common finds in uniforms
42. No business
43. Member's target
44. Pumada cash
45. Field with a trolley problem
46. Window shade

47. Heavier with four legs and teeth

48. Having four sharps

49. Bad look
50. Start of a religious title
51. In hot water?
52. Country known for its devotion to a General Mills crowd?
53. Currency of Vietnam
54. King ... sofa
55. Surpass Sea fish
56. How's favorite bird, on "Sesame Street"
57. Do you
58. Drizzly
59. Iridlands saga
60. Uncured
61. High-strung Latin ruler?
62. Father
63. All fired up
64. Can't argue with that
65. Comic-Con event
66. Name in a Chinese American dish
67. Experience with ours, "For the home of Grunskell!"
68. Some tennis shots
69. Gave one's word

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27. Can't miss activity
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30. Like favorite jeans
31. Schoolful
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36. Stage signals
37. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100.

Eternity 1. Softball clabs 2. Geographic region 3. Exchange heated wood 4. Certain close-up 5. Contopey star daily 6. College variety called "big white vegetable" in China 7. Three-time AL MVP in the 2000s 8. South Asian wrap 9. Palo ... California 10. Main arrival 11. Grinding teeth 12. "All right" 13. Jars 14. Dish served in a sizzling skillet ... poem 15. Arctic seabirds 16. Available for a meeting 17. Kialina 18. Grade before grades, for sheet 19. Lie for, see 20. Trident-shaped letters 21. Pussones 22. Wasas, maybe 23. "Holy camel"

Last week's answers can be found in today's "Public Island Solutions"

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Jumble

Unscramble the six Jumble, one letter per square, to form six words. Then arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, as suggested by this cartoon.

PHOTO: YUMA CHINESE • 1/2" x 2 1/2" x 2 1/2" x 2 1/2"

This week's answers can be found in today's "Public Island Solutions." By David L. Pratt and Jeff Forrest, © 2026 Tribune Content Agency, LLC. All rights reserved. PhatLamblu.com

Sudoku

Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box in bold borders contains every digit 1 to 9.

Level 1 2 3 4

Last week's answers can be found in today's "Public Island Solutions." By The Museum Group © 2026 Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Quote-Accentric

1. Define clues, writing in Words column over numbered dashes.
2. Transfer letters to numbered squares in diagram.
3. When pattern is completed, quotation can be read left to right. The first letters of the filled-in words reading down form an accretic yielding the speaker's name and the topic of the quotation.

Clues

Words

A. Follow command show	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )
B. Repeated item	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )
C. Across CQ language	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )
D. Norwegian ring	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )
E. Spelling practice?	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )
F. Regions	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )
G. Either Will or Hillary Choice once	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )
H. Block	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )
I. Treasure	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )
J. Roman	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )

K. Becoming less cool	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )
L. Helicopter feature	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )
M. Trading feature 2 wds.	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )
N. Slowpoke	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )
O. Armourant's act	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )
P. Way to go	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )
Q. Free rider	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )
R. On edge	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )
S. Neiggin	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )
T. Varenbopet's play	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )
U. Expenses	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )
V. "Far out"	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )
W. Looking table	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )
X. Sandfall sport	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )	( \frac{1}{2} )

Last week's answers can be found in today's "Purple Island Christmas" By Cornelia Pines, Edited by Andrea Marton/Andria V. DODI Tribune Content Agency, LLC. All rights reserved.

Nice Guy?

By CHARLES PRESTON

Across

1. Pierce
2. Rodeo performer
3. Standing name
4. Carter's middle name
5. Papal soil
6. St. Peter's topper
7. Opera highlight
8. Little mermaid
9. Thought
10. Powder
11. Flashblade
12. Brit. honorary title
13. Hot style
14. Booster or jow
15. Old gold coins
16. Aquarium
17. Cathedral section
18. Russian range
19. Schedule
20. Used beverage
21. Political context
22. Allays
23. Feudal field band
24. Implant
25. Spread to dry

26. Gives for sublooping

27. Disposed of

28. Conclude
29. Complete rogue
30. Show surprise
31. Theater section
32. Metal hammer
33. American Indian
34. Word of woe
35. Eliminate a wood
36. Stare at
37. Stove
38. Church official
39. Craney

Down

1. Rumble or bucket
2. Mitchell mansion
3. Seed coat
4. Scoundrel
5. Nomad
6. Extra Scots
7. Nursery rhyme burden
8. Choose
9. Replenished the amine
10. Underground entrance
11. Method

12. Final word

13. It can come in waves

14. Upper Peninsula arch
15. Homer hitter
16. Jowder's weight
17. Overhead
18. Runaround
19. Puddle
20. State a slave
21. Ill tempered person
22. Men of Oman
23. Island, in music
24. Thebes vehicles
25. Witnessed
26. Ancestral line
27. Sea bird
28. Poetic before
29. Vasilana
30. Buring tool
31. Close with force
32. Popular pop
33. Culture medium
34. Pain in the neck
35. Eager
36. Admit defeat
37. Jones's ship
38. Rural sight
39. Abee beginning

Last week's answers can be found in today's "Purple Island Christmas" by CHARLES PRESTON.

Purple

Island

solutions

Last week's crosswords

"LAST OF ALL"

"There's Chosen"

"Straight and Narrow"

Last week's Quote-Accentric

(T.) HANDFIELD: ALL IN A DAY'S WORK: Two second graders were reading the names of United States presidents from a poster when they came to our regiment's president. One girl asked, "What kind of matter would name her son (Joshua Scott)".

Last week's Nudoku

4	3	2	8	5	7	1	9	6
9	5	6	1	2	4	3	7	8
7	1	8	6	9	3	2	5	4
6	4	9	2	1	8	7	3	5
3	7	5	4	6	9	8	2	1
8	2	1	7	3	5	6	4	9
2	9	3	5	8	6	4	1	7
1	8	4	9	7	2	5	6	3
5	6	7	3	4	1	9	8	2

This week's Jumble

MELODY: PICPACE: SEENARD ANNUAL: MORRIS DEPUIT When designing their first aircraft, the Wright Brothers kept things —

"PLANE" AND SIMPLE

Horoscopes

If August 23 to your birthday: A lot of 20,000 challenges should already be settled over, here right look like they're singing. The beginning of your personal year is likely to open with a welcome period of apart to regroup about through September.

Ashes (March 31-April 19): Monday is a below-seen day with below zero odds, if you can't do it today. Tuesday is the best day consuming in August for a meeting. Search, information, or meeting something new if your personal transfer also free up.

Homes (April 29-May 20): Some creativity or anxiety could scare to come forth, the next month could be an exciting time on a creative level.

Games (May 23-June 20): Focus on home for the next few weeks. When all is aligned, home can be a sanctuary and changing station to provide respite as well as building the energy to re-engage with the world. Center (June 23-July 22): Find worthy sources of

information to expand your mind. In your power and those several things display Leo (July 25-Aug 22): You could be of a mind to develop a financial plan — Tuesday is a comach better day to launch that today or Monday. Also, you ought get some goodwill, be on us. Vege (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Your activity could be fit for a couple of days; creative could have lots of top-level inspiration to work from. If you're felt invisible for a while that could change abruptly — expect more attention for the next few weeks.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Home could feel like magic next, both in the daily vibration of the way it can serve as your launch and be great soon. Tune into this, it's wonderful but fleeting. A cycle of growth work could set you on a higher timeline. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov 22): Even if you're an annover, the next month or so could find you feeling more social. It's also a time that terry thing could be especially useful.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 20): This isn't the moment to make financial changes or to sign up for any kind of investment. There could be lots of plans that little if any actual gold for the next two days at least.

Capricorn (Dec. 23-Jan 19): Your skills could be in high demand, or just the ability to teach what you know. It's a time to expand your horizons and also to share what you've learned. Aquarius (Jan. 29-Feb 16): Tune in to your personal time whether large or small and throw yourself a victory for You. Doctors of Nostrup could be a dismantle as Huxins or two that holds you back.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): Your focus could be on close relationships for the next few weeks, wherbs or moments or business partnerships, a housemate, or a pot.

— Mayl Hales, Tribune Content Agency

Word Game

This game challenges you to find as many words as you can, as quickly as you can, in one master word.

LAEDNIC (Jan-4-Oct-6): Conduce to the point of learning code or mysterious.

Can you find W or more words in LAEDNIC?

Average mark: 12 words from their 25 minutes

Here are the rules: 1. Words must be four or more letters. 2. Words that acquire four letters by the addition of an "x" such as "best" and "cats," are not used. 3. Use only one form of a verb — either "poor" or "poised," not both. 4. Proper nouns and slang terms are not used.

Answers to the word game:

WOR: 1000 1000000 1000000 1000000 1000000 1000000 1000000 1000000 1000000 1000000 1000000 1000000 1000

— Kathleen Kace, distributed by Andrews McMeil/Syndication for CBS

Bridge

Q.1—Neither vulnerable, as South, you hold:

● K QJ 10 6 3.2 ▼ 3 ● A Q K ● K J

West North East South

Pass Pass 2▼ 7

What call would you make?

Q.2—Fourth, South vulnerable, as South, you hold:

● K QJ 8 4 ▼ J 9 4 ● A K QJ 10

North East South West

28* Pass 7

• 2017年1月1日

*Weak—six grades, 6–9 points

What call would you make?

Q.3—Each what vulnerable, as South, you hold:

● QJ 15 ▼ QJ ● K QJ 9 ● A QJ 10 A

South West North East

30* Pass 2◆ Pass

2. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10

*Transfer to hearts

What call would you make?

Q.4—Both vulnerable, as South, you hold:

● K QJ 7 3 2 ▼ QJ ● K A ● A J 3 2

North East South West

▼ Pass 1◆ Pass

2* Pass 7

2. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10. 10

What call would you make?

Answers in Monday's correct pages.

— Bob Jones, Tribune Content Agency

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Duetin By Steve Kelley and Jeff Parker

The Lockhams

By Bunny Heard and John Reiner

"WE'RE BACK ON DRAWING TOOKS OUT YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW WHAT WE'RE SAVING TO EACH OTHER"

"NORMALIZE I DON'T WANT BEING TOLD TO EASE OUT, BUT WE'RE THE HEAD OF ACCOMPLISHING."

"JUST COULD I LIKE BEEN AN ALL-STOP IF YOU OBJECT WAS TO TOOK IT ON THE FLOOR."

"THE FOLLOWING IS A FEAR OF THE HIGH SHORELESS RISK WITH THE BROILERS' CHICKEN BREAK!!"

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Mutts By Patrick McDonnell

The Middletons By Ralph Dunagin and Dana Summers

Doonesbury By Garry Trudeau

Prickly City By Marshall Ramsey