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Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Byrd-Bennett: 'It may have seemed like last minute, but it wasn't'

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Byrd-Bennett: 'It may have seemed like last minute, but it wasn't':

Byrd-Bennett: 'It may have seemed like last minute, but it wasn't'

Yesterday's press conference.
That kind of exotic travel can only enhance Emanuel’s cartoon-like reputation among his harshest critics as “Mayor 1 Percent.” Which is apparently why Emanuel got a bit defensive when asked why he chose not to cut the Christmas trip short when Chicago’s weather forecast went south. -- Sun-Times
Rahm, all dressed up in Eddie Bauer polar fleece, seemed really pissed about having to rush back from his beach junket in Indonesia to fix another Byrd-Bennett screw up -- this one on the schools-open, schools-closed fiasco. BBB, knowing that wind-chill temps in Chicago were going to drop down to a deadly -45° initially ordered schools to remain open and for teachers to suck it up and report to work. Of course no parent in their right mind was going to risk their