Happy birthday, DuSable Bridge!
BooksChicagoCOVID-19CrimeEntertainmentFoodGeneralGeographyHealthMilitary policyPersonalPoliticsRepublican PartyTrumpUrban planningUS PoliticsWisconsinThe bascule bridge over the Chicago River at Michigan Avenue turned 100 today. The Chicago Tribune has photos.
Also:
- The Tribune explains how the various Covid-19 tests work, and where Illinois is in getting them to people.
- Seems I'm not the only one who thought a combination between GrubHub and Uber might not fit in with US antitrust laws.
- A new book says the US would lose a direct military confrontation with China, because they're set up to fight a different war than we are.
- Turns out, the 4-3 Wisconsin Supreme Court decision yesterday that sent the state's Covid-19 response into chaos may not have been the Republican Party's best move.
- The FBI has seized US Senator Richard Burr's (R-NC) mobile phone as part of an investigation into his alleged securities trading on the nonpublic information he received about Covid-19 in an intelligence briefing in January.
- The full 4th Circuit US Court of Appeals overturned a 3-judge panel from the same court, holding that the president's businesses cannot derive income from foreign governments under the constitution's emoluments clause.
And the New York Times interviewed science-fiction author John Scalzi, whose The Last Emperox came out two weeks ago.
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