Extra, Extra
By Margaret Lyons in News on Jul 28, 2008 11:33PM
According to a report from the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, one out of every four US bridges is "deficient, either in need of repair or in need of widening to handle today's traffic." [AP, report]
Robert Smigel on Fresh Air. [NPR]
A Logan Square woman was apparently doused with some kind of toxic liquid as part of an apparent robbery. She's in serious condition. [WBBM]
Some aldermen are skeptical of the mayor's proposed new trash-hauling plan. [S-T]
State Senator Rev. James Meeks is calling on CPS high-school students to skip the first day of school and instead spend the day trying to enroll at New Trier High School in Winnetka. [CBS 2]
Cake Wrecks might be my new favorite blog. Highlights: birthing cake, "comguadulations," "it a girl."
If you haven't read this story yet, you should. "We were told that Steven Kazmierczak, who killed five students and then himself at Northern Illinois University in February, was a sweet, unassuming, overachieving grad student who inexplicably snapped. He was not." [Esquire]