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Answer to morgue mess? Don't die in Cook County

By Chuck Goudie
Jan 30, 2012 6:08 AM - If the only certainties in life are death and taxes, then a morgue is one of the few places where those two realities intersect. In Cook County though, where the execution of simple government tasks seems chronically complicated, even the dead cannot rest in peace without being dragged through a political labyrinth.
Paterno epitaph: He protected himself, not the children

By Chuck Goudie
Jan 23, 2012 10:31 AM - As football legend-turned real life pariah Joe Paterno goes to his final resting place, he will take with him the answer to a question that might have salvaged his reputation: Why didn't you do something?
Beware the ides of January in primary season

By Chuck Goudie
Jan 16, 2012 5:30 AM - It isn't often that two members of the General Assembly can directly save individual taxpayers a few bucks so quickly or easily. Yet that is just what state Rep. Randy Ramey of Carol Stream and state Sen. Carole Pankau of Itasca have done.
Looking ahead to the second half of 2012

By Chuck Goudie
Jan 15, 2012 1:58 PM - A less politically correct name for a Chicago landmark, big success for the city's professional sports teams and old frustrations with new holiday lights are just some of the things Chuck Goudie thinks will - or at least should - happen in the second half of 2012.
Why look back? Here's what's coming

By Chuck Goudie
Jan 1, 2012 8:11 PM - The glut of retrospectives this time of year is unnecessary. With so many info-sources these days, it is impossible to avoid knowing what has happened. Recounting the past is like organizing your closet. Looking forward is more fun. From my top shelf, some 2012 month-by-month news notes:
Have a politically correct holiday season!

By Chuck Goudie
Dec 26, 2011 6:00 AM - All those Christmas and New Year's traditions you hold dear? Well, don't look now, but the PC police would like to run you in for a little conversation.
The ghosts of Sam Hurd's Christmas past

By Chuck Goudie
Dec 19, 2011 6:26 AM - Just over a week before Christmas, Chicago Bears wide receiver Sam Hurd was arrested on felony drug charges outside a Rosemont steakhouse. Chuck Goudie asks what might have happened that day had Hurd first been visited by a pair of ghosts from his Christmas past.
Epiphany about Blago: Read this to understand the man

By Chuck Goudie
Dec 13, 2011 1:35 PM - Everybody missed it at the time. Buried in all the festivities surrounding Rod Blagojevich's 14-year prison sentence, there was an epiphany. Not an Epiphany with a capital E, the kind that is celebrated at Christmas. A lowercase epiphany, something that defines the essence of something else. Once you know this one thing, you will understand Rod Blagojevich.
Chicago ties to newly released John Lennon FBI file

By Chuck Goudie
Dec 5, 2011 3:45 AM - One of the most interesting items in John Lennon's newly released FBI file doesn't even directly concern him -- it involves Chicago City Hall.
Hard lessons for study-abroad students

By Chuck Goudie
Nov 28, 2011 5:38 PM - After three American students were released from Egyptian custody last week, ABC 7's Chuck Goudie explores the consequences for American students who jump into the frey of political conflict while studying abroad.

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