They should read this book. Pitino, nonlatino, a fabulous book. As i read it, two words came to mind. Identity and empowerment, two words that describe Luis Gutierrez. A commitment to your roots for your puerto rican identity. Its a Fair Assessment of who you are quite yeah, i think we try to describe for the reader, what is it that Luis Gutierrez has a vocation for immigrants and Immigration Reform. Why has he made that a priority . Is to read the book on the begin to understand my mom and dad left nothing in puerto rico. They had nothing. They had no future. Theyve gone to grade school and then they came to america without a coat, without language, with nothing except as immigrants continue to come to the country. Now they came to citizens. They came in 52. In new york 60 years ago the headlines in new york city pregnant users. How do we stop them from coming to new york . At their criminals, that they didnt speak the language they wanted to get on welfare. How many times have we hea
Make you feel better they need this Service Folks who have chronic illnesses. They want to regulate the process ahead of time. Should be rednecks in hospitals or clinics. Thinking get their prescriptions. The jane byrne and never smiles. All the men did not like the idea of adding morse taxes to phone service. This it is the best of the bad idea. It is never a good idea. It is the daughter of the two ideas. In of all minimumwage legislation is still a way off in chicago it is viewed as inevitable. Think people in chicago need a raise to be able to make ends meet. It is not enough. Im still fighting for 15 an hour making sure it grows. A little more tweaking before comes back to the full city council for a vote. Prosecutors. The man is licensed to carry a concealed weapon. Told police he is about to enter an at t store in suburban crestwood on saturday. And he noticed it was being robbed. Chased after the suspect not knowing police were also after him. When the man fired an officer had
Clouds. Were getting closer to average. We could have some early afternoon showers. But not a green belt. 57 degrees in the union. Its 61 along the lakefront. The skies had cleared out. A few scattered storage hours popped up yesterday and overnight things have settled down now. A few showers could come back later on. That flow continues to keep us cooler than average. Or going to throw in a 20 percent chance for a scattered showers by midday. Many of us will not see it but we will see those showers and some isolated thunderstorms. 83 tomorrow. A spotty showers or thunderstorms. A better chance on friday. Everything looks good out there this morning. Dealing with roadwork because one of those means spots is on i 55 and lake shore drive. This continues so as youre approaching i 551 lane is out. And the ramp from sao paulo short south bound by five will be out as well until 5 00 a. M. Tomorrow. Less than two hours ago, the cubs just wrapped up their longest game in team history. And some
R fizzling out across southern wisconsin. We will have some son of the clouds will buildup in the action we may have some showers. Its going to be warmer today at 82. 80s all the way through saturday. As chance of showers is moral but even then they will be scattered. Hal is the committee looking . Bling closures on the jane addams were from earlier this morning all part of the extensive resurfacing project that will be in place for some time. The to have some hot pockets of construction to break down for you along with a quick peak of your travel times in just a few minutes. Charges are pending against the person responsible for a multi vehicle crash that killed an elderly man on the north side. 71yearold frank kiley was loading groceries into the trunk of his car at sheridan and balmoral yesterday morning, when he was hit and pinned against his car. Witnesses say the driver of the other car was speeding and ran a red light, causing a Chain Reaction crash that included a cta bus. Four
Writers and we dont always associate television with good writing, especially in local news. But you always were a good writer but he wrote in the short form a perspective, what compelled you to tell your story . I had, rick, no idea that writing the book. Never have thought about doing it. Of course, never have tried to do it. When i retired maybe five years ago for the first time hes like the Michael Jordan of local television broadcasting. [laughter] my retirement is often compulsory. As the hair gets a greater, the less management wants to be part of the team. But the first time i retired i was ready to retire but it was after about 45 years in the business, and i just went off thinking about myself. I had been under so many years of such severe deadlines that i never had a chance to even think about what i was really doing to myself and what i did, and, for others to know. The more i just thought about it, the more i kind of took notes about things. My memory came back and i went