Rick Pearson
@rap30
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Chicago Tribune political reporter. Lifetime Achievement Award/Chicago Headline Club-SPJ. Tweets are mine. RTs don’t = endorsement. Trolls will be blocked.
Chicago, IL
Joined May 2008
RT @PetrellaReports: As Chicago continues to make gains on crime, many see potential for damage in National Guard threat. Story from Caroli….
chicagotribune.com
Law enforcement experts and violence prevention leaders say the move to send the National Guard to Chicago would amount to a piece of political theater at best and “a recipe for disaster” at worst.…
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Our updated story: President Trump appears to waffle on National Guard in Chicago. Wants to be invited. Pritzker and state Dem leaders say he’s not welcome. Irrelevant IL GOP says it would be a “lifesaving mission.”
chicagotribune.com
The president’s comments follow his statements Friday when he raised the idea of using the Guard in Chicago, as he previously did in Los Angeles and currently is doing in Washington, D.C.
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Our story: Johnson, Pritzker and others pondering next steps to counter Pentagon plans deploying National Guard in Chicago
chicagotribune.com
Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. JB Pritzker worked Sunday preparing plans to counter plans detailed in media reports that the Pentagon has been working on plans for a deployment of National Guard me…
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RT @PetrellaReports: Justice Department demands Illinois hand over voter data. Election officials are debating compliance. Story with @rap3….
chicagotribune.com
Illinois election officials are weighing a demand from President Trump’s Justice Department that the state hand over voters’ birth dates, driver’s license numbers, signatures and partial Soci…
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RT @JasonDeSanto: What do you call an engineered, secretly gathered statement, outside of normal procedures, without witnesses, and in exch….
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RT @JMoreChicago: Judge Orders That ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center Be Shut Down for Now via @NYTimes.
nytimes.com
A judge ruled that the state and federal governments acted illegally by not conducting an environmental review before building the center in the Florida Everglades.
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My story:.
Gov. JB Pritzker signed into law Thursday a measure specifically granting journalists greater protection to fight off costly retaliatory lawsuits designed to chill their work in reporting on and investigating Illinois governmental units.
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RT @KObradovich: The Iowa Democratic Party is asking voters what they want to see happen with the party’s presidential caucuses — and wheth….
iowacapitaldispatch.com
The survey includes questions on if Iowa Democrats should go "rogue" and defy the DNC calendar in 2028 if not given an early state position.
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RT @BillBernardoni: I asked IL Senate GOP Deputy Minority Leader @SueRezin if she’s heard from the Bears about the stadium bill. Her answe….
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RT @NiseiLounge: Murphy’s Marquee turned the season around! Good job @murphysbleacher! . Now who needs a beer!.
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RT @chicagotribune: Chicago Bears face a long drive to get passage of stadium legislation in the fall.
chicagotribune.com
It is the Chicago Bears’ pocketbook that may be of more importance in trying to convince Chicago legislators to vote to ease the way for them to leave the city.
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RT @chicagotribune: Trump vows to change how elections are run. The US Constitution doesn’t give him that power.
chicagotribune.com
President Donald Trump on Monday vowed more changes to the way elections are conducted in the U.S., but based on the Constitution there is little to nothing he can do on his own.
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RT @tplohetski: BREAKING: Texas Democrats who left the state 15 days ago have just landed at Austin’s airport, ending a nationally watched….
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RT @jeremymbarr: Another 2020 media lawsuit settled: the conservative channel Newsmax just agreed to pay $67 to Dominion Voting Systems to….
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RT @ddale8: No, states don't have to run elections how the president "tells" them to. No, the US isn't "the only Country in the World that….
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President Donald Trump made a series of false claims about elections in a Monday social media post in which he pledged to “lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS” and voting machines –...
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Our story: Chicago Bears face a long drive to get passage of stadium legislation in the fall
chicagotribune.com
It is the Chicago Bears’ pocketbook that may be of more importance in trying to convince Chicago legislators to vote to ease the way for them to leave the city.
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RT @BBCWorld: Hollywood stuntman set on fire for Pink Floyd cover dies aged 88
bbc.com
Ronnie Rondell Jr's decades-long career saw him appear in films and TV including Baywatch, Spartacus and The Matrix Reloaded.
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