Episodes

  • Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 2-13-25: The Senators and the President are playing the same old money games

    Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 2-13-25: The Senators and the President are playing the same old money games
    Feb 13 2025
    If you’re not watching the Senate hearings about President Trump’s choices for his Cabinet, you’re not missing much that in my opinion is worth watching. Unless what you want to see are a few distinguished and undistinguished members of the Senate making long-winded speeches as if they’re still campaigning for or against Donald Trump moving […]
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  • Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 2-6-25: What we need right now is the politicians, newspapers and TV to shut up

    Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 2-6-25: What we need right now is the politicians, newspapers and TV to shut up
    Feb 6 2025
    The public and often obscene arguments over President Trump’s decisions to fire FBI agents and prosecutors in the Department of Justice are being heard all around, everywhere, along with the expensive and damaging tariffs he says he’s planning against Mexico and Canada. And also his threatening speeches about our most committed allies around the world. […]
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  • Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 1-30-25: President Trump is changing the ways we are living our lives

    Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 1-30-25: President Trump is changing the ways we are living our lives
    Jan 30 2025
    We can like or dislike our second time President Donald J. Trump. But we better, we all better, listen and pay attention to everything he says, because he’s changing the ways we are living our lives, most dramatically changing the way he’s dealing with our immigration crisis. President Trump is dispatching federal agents, mostly armed […]
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  • Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 1-23-25: I’ve had enough of Mark Zuckerberg

    Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 1-23-25: I’ve had enough of Mark Zuckerberg
    Jan 23 2025
    I am sure that I am not the only person having had enough, enough, enough already of that Zuckerberg guy. Mark Zuckerberg, the multibillionaire who owns and operates Instagram and Facebook. In case you’ve missed it, Mark Zuckerberg is changing the way he operates Facebook. He’s now permitting messages to be online before they’ve been […]
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  • Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 1-16-25: Mr. President, you are ruining your legacy with all those pardons

    Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 1-16-25: Mr. President, you are ruining your legacy with all those pardons
    Jan 16 2025
    Good morning, Mr. President Biden. I’m thinking you are ruining your reputation and your legacy with all those presidential pardons and commutations you’ve recently been granting convicted criminals. Like the pardon you granted your son Hunter and more than 1000 pardons and commutations you’ve recently granted in a hurry to beat the clock that in […]
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  • Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 1-9-25: Politics have no place in schools

    Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 1-9-25: Politics have no place in schools
    Jan 9 2025
    Well, finally, finally, we now have only a few days to wait for the first meeting of Chicago’s first-ever publicly elected Board of Education. Our brand new 21-member Board of Ed is about to begin its difficult process of trying to make our public schools better than they are. I’m dubious about it because the […]
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  • Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 12-19-24: Start over, my dear Bears, and think smart

    Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 12-19-24: Start over, my dear Bears, and think smart
    Dec 19 2024
    Considering my very sad but nonetheless much-loved Chicago Bears, I’m wondering right now what I’ll do this coming Sunday, knowing very well what I’ll do is what I do every Sunday this time of year: Make myself a chicken salad sandwich, say a prayer to the gods of football, sit down in front of the […]
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  • Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 12-12-24: Here Rahm goes again

    Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 12-12-24: Here Rahm goes again
    Dec 12 2024
    Here we go again. Or here Rahm goes again. That’s Rahm Emanuel declaring that he may run again for Mayor of Chicago. Or, if Governor Pritzker of Illinois decides not to run again, Rahm Emanuel is saying, Rahm may run for governor. At this particular time in government and politics, Rahm Emanuel is the US […]
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