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USA Today ran an article in the Travel section on a topic that’s been getting some buzz: hotels trying to reduce costs by reducing housekeeping service. Different hotels are trying different things, but as far as I can tell, it started with hotels asking… Continue Reading “Hotel Housekeeping”
“Retrofitting suburbia” has to be the lamest new catchphrase I have heard in a long time, but the Trib just wrote about the redevelopment of the Randhurst Mall in Mount Prospect. The short version is they demolished the entire shopping mall (save Carson’s and… Continue Reading “No One Outside the 847 Area Code Will Care About This”
I went to the Trib to catch the latest on the storm that came through this afternoon. I heard there were some scary power lines down in Des Plaines. I caught a link about a fire destroying a building in Palatine. It was a… Continue Reading “Some Bad News”
The Chicago Tribune ran an article today about a campaign the Freedom From Religion Foundation is running in the city. I clicked on it thinking of my friend Bill, a self-described Recovering Catholic who has been writing about skepticism lately. Apparently, the Foundation has purchased… Continue Reading “Freedom From Religion Foundation”
I thought I noticed the cost of airfare climbing, but I had written it off as my business travel being on rather short notice lately. Turns out, this summer’s travel is shaping up to be rather expensive. 24% more expensive, t be exact. An… Continue Reading “Airfare”
Rick Steves just wrote a nice piece about traveling alone. He said: “Solo travel gives you complete freedom and independence. You never have to wait for your partner to pack. You decide where to go, how far to travel, how much to spend and… Continue Reading “Traveling Alone”
Publisher’s Weekly had an article about the bestseller list for Amazon.com: “For some in publishing it may be a curiosity, for others a point of contention—Amazon’s practice of including free downloads in its list of most popular Kindle titles. It will soon no longer… Continue Reading “Kindle Downloads”
The Chicago Tribune printed a great article this weekend about things that will and will not be recycled by its curbside program. It was really timely because we have been debating a few things about the program in my house lately. Things I learned:… Continue Reading “Real Rules of Recycyling”
Robert Bianco, a TV writer at USA Today, does a regular column called Critic’s Corner. It is basically a What to Watch. He made a comment today for the Wednesday post that rather hit home for me: “David Tennant stars as Hamlet (PBS, 8… Continue Reading “Oh. How True.”
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