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Picayune Sentinel: Shifting my chips onto Vallas as the Chicago mayoral race enters the home stretch

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Picayune Sentinel: Shifting my chips onto Vallas as the Chicago mayoral race enters the home stretch

Eric Zorn
Jan 26
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Picayune Sentinel: Shifting my chips onto Vallas as the Chicago mayoral race enters the home stretch

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Due to a coding error, many of you did not receive this morning’s Picayune Sentinel.

Here is the link to the issue

And here is the table of contents

  • A few stray thoughts on the race for mayor

  • Last week’s winning tweet

  • News and Views — on stamps, artificial intelligence, abortion imagery and a dismaying front page

  • On editorials — a correction and a follow-up

  • Land of Linkin’ — Where I tell readers where to go

  • Why are we still saying “actress”?

  • Mary Schmich — Yay snow!

  • “The Mincing Rascals” preview

  • Re:Tweets — featuring the winner of the visual tweets poll and this week’s finalists in the conventional and special “dad tweets” poll.

  • Instructions on how to vote for the Picayune Sentinel, Brandon Pope’s beard and more.

  • Tune of the Week — the hopeful, beautiful and non-sectarian “We Shall Meet Someday.”:

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Rick Weiland
Jan 26

Flip-flopping doesn't mean a roundtrip. It means switching back and forth as the wind changes.

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King Embry
Jan 26

Remember that old saying, "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result"? Any candidate running against Lightfoot could use that bit of wisdom to their advantage.

As for Paul Vallas, he did a good job in the positions he once held in Chicago government, meaning that he would know how to navigate in the entrenched Chicago bureaucracy.

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