Good heavens was this a crazy week...... all sorts of news...... some good, some disappointing, some downright puzzling.
Here's a brief roundup of what I would call highlights (or lowlights):
- BAH HUMBUG! THE STATE IS BROKE!! no Christmas lights on the dome of the Illinois State Capitol this year
- Obama rejects Keystone Pipeline
- Facebook tops General Electric in market value
- Looking like a bomb brought down Russian passenger airplane
- Kraft Heinz closing 7 factories and cutting 2,600 jobs
- Trump accuses Yellen of keeping rates low at Obama's request
- Supreme Court agrees to take up another challenge related to contraceptives and the Affordable Care Act
- Weird saga of Lt. Joe Gliniewicz gets weirder.... much weirder
- U.S. orders girls' locker room access for transgender Illinois student
- voters in Houston overturn the city's equal rights ordinance in order to keep man parts out of the restrooms of true women
- Ohio voters fail to pass ballot measure for legalized marijuana
- Mexican Supreme Court opens the door to legalizing marijuana
- El Faro shipwreck is found
- Royals are baseball's world champs
- Woodfield Mall in Chicago area lets parents pay $10 to reserve a spot in Santa's line
- no legal charges against Patrick Kane
- Trump coming to the heart of the Land of Lincoln next week
- college football officiating crew suspended after apparently missing a key call.... or two.... or three
- Panera is moving to cage-free eggs
- Leaders of China and Taiwan will meet for first time since 1949
- Chipotle fights E. coli infestation
- Positive Train Control (PTC) requirements get delayed by Congress
- Yellowstone-area grizzlies deemed to no longer need protection
- Americans are becoming less religious, especially young adults
- Volkswagen cheated on Audi and Porsche diesel SUVs too
- Facebook tops General Electric in market value
- Looking like a bomb brought down Russian passenger airplane
- Kraft Heinz closing 7 factories and cutting 2,600 jobs
- Trump accuses Yellen of keeping rates low at Obama's request
- Supreme Court agrees to take up another challenge related to contraceptives and the Affordable Care Act
- Weird saga of Lt. Joe Gliniewicz gets weirder.... much weirder
- U.S. orders girls' locker room access for transgender Illinois student
- voters in Houston overturn the city's equal rights ordinance in order to keep man parts out of the restrooms of true women
- Ohio voters fail to pass ballot measure for legalized marijuana
- Mexican Supreme Court opens the door to legalizing marijuana
- El Faro shipwreck is found
- Royals are baseball's world champs
- Woodfield Mall in Chicago area lets parents pay $10 to reserve a spot in Santa's line
- no legal charges against Patrick Kane
- Trump coming to the heart of the Land of Lincoln next week
- college football officiating crew suspended after apparently missing a key call.... or two.... or three
- Panera is moving to cage-free eggs
- Leaders of China and Taiwan will meet for first time since 1949
- Chipotle fights E. coli infestation
- Positive Train Control (PTC) requirements get delayed by Congress
- Yellowstone-area grizzlies deemed to no longer need protection
- Americans are becoming less religious, especially young adults
- Volkswagen cheated on Audi and Porsche diesel SUVs too
As I said, lots of news. A good chunk of it so very disappointing.
Out for now......
Matt