Events

James Fallows wrote speeches for President Carter and has been a political journalist since leaving politics. He has five tips for watching Tuesday's speech, which I will be doing so you don't have to:

In the past two weeks, two Brews & Choos Project breweries have closed or announced their closings: Short Fuse closed on Monday, and Illuminated Brew Works announced yesterday that they would close this coming June. Another brewery my Brews & Choos buddy and I visited (but was too far from public transit to make the list), Alarmist, closed January 31st.

I have a lot of prep to do for an event tomorrow, but I still found a few minutes to read these:

The US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 today that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) does :

Chicago has a batshit-crazy seller's market right now:

With all the walking around outside and taking half a day of PTO, I didn't get a chance to read these articles I set aside to read later:

The temperature got up to 17.2°C (63°F) at O'Hare this afternoon, but with 72 km/h (39 kts) wind gusts. Inner Drive WHQ managed 14.6°C, also with gusty winds. That's still warm enough to open all the windows and let Cassie sleep on the front deck. And she's had over an hour of walks today, with another half-hour in store when we go to pub quiz in just over an hour.