Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson addressed his controversial support for a 1% tax on groceries after a state tax is set to expire during a press conference. The Chicago Tribune warned on Thursday that Mayor Brandon Johnson's progressive policy proposals may scare businesses away from the already struggling city. As officials anticipate a 1.2 billion deficit, Johnson spoke to reporters on Tuesday about his plans to fix the local economy, particularly how the "billionaires and ultra-rich" can have "more skin in the game." "Everything has to be on the table. Everything has to be on the table," Johnson said of his plans.

Indeed, many of Tracy's pieces of film criticism aren't reviews--they're movie-centered essays, in which she develops in detail her probingly comprehensive view of the art form over all. She may even be the cinema's first major theoretician. Her body of work cries out for a complete reissue in book form. Tracy, born in 1874, was the daughter of actors, and she began her career on the stage, in the eighteen-nineties. In 1909, she published a book of short stories about the lives of theatre people, "Merely Players." In her love of movies, she was fighting an uphill battle against the intellectual orthodoxies of the time, which revered theatre as a serious art form and disparaged movies as merely popular entertainment.

"Jacob Javits of New York is the first United States senator to become fully automated," the Chicago Tribune announced in 1962 from the Republican state convention in Buffalo, where an electronic Javits spat out slips of paper with answers to questions about everything from Cuba's missiles ("a serious threat") to the Cubs' prospects (dim). Javits also harbors thoughts on medical care for the elderly, Berlin, the communist menace," and more than a hundred other subjects, the Tribune reported after an interview with the machine. Javits may have been the first automated American politician, but he wasn't the last. Since the nineteen-sixties, much of American public life has become automated, driven by computers and predictive algorithms that can do the political work of rallying support, running campaigns, communicating with constituents, and even crafting policy. In that same stretch of time, the proportion of Americans who say that they trust the U.S. government to do what is right ...

Another social media company is paying up due to Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act. Snap Inc. (the parent company of Snapchat) has reached a $35 million settlement in an Illinois class action lawsuit over its use of facial recognition technology. The lawsuit alleges that Snapchat violated the BIPA law by collecting and storing the biometric data of users who used its lenses and filters -- without their consent. Illinois residents who resided in the state after November 17th, 2015 and used Snapchat's popular AR features may be eligible for a cut of the settlement. Snap Inc. is only the latest company to get penalized under BIPA -- which requires companies to ask for consent before it can collect biometric data from users.

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is run by a trust comprising four eminent persons as trustees. The Tribune, the largest selling English daily in North India, publishes news and views without any bias or prejudice of any kind. Restraint and moderation, rather than agitational language and partisanship, are the hallmarks of the paper. It is an independent newspaper in the real sense of the term. The Tribune has two sister publications, Punjabi Tribune (in Punjabi) and Dainik Tribune (in Hindi).

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is run by a trust comprising four eminent persons as trustees. The Tribune, the largest selling English daily in North India, publishes news and views without any bias or prejudice of any kind. Restraint and moderation, rather than agitational language and partisanship, are the hallmarks of the paper. It is an independent newspaper in the real sense of the term. The Tribune has two sister publications, Punjabi Tribune (in Punjabi) and Dainik Tribune (in Hindi).

The best weapons are secret weapons. Freed from the boundaries of observable reality, they can hold infinite power and thus provoke infinite fear -- or hope. In World War II, as reality turned against them, the Nazis kept telling Germans about the Wunderwaffe about to hit the front lines -- "miracle weapons" that would guarantee victory for the Reich. The Stealth Bomber's stealth was not just about being invisible to radar -- it was also about its capabilities being mysterious to the Soviets. And whatever the Russian "dome of light" weapon is and those Cuban "sonic attacks" are, they're all terrifying.

In conventional electronic control systems, the output of the process under control is converted into an electrical signal output which is compared to a reference input signal. The difference or error signal actuates the controller to generate a control action signal. When the control signal is proportional to the error signal at a given moment, the output can take on any value between zero and one (fully off and fully on). If the control signal varies as the cumulative value of the error signals up to that moment, the control action is integral. It is also possible to have a control signal that depends upon the rate of change of error giving a derivative controller.

Pat Bagley is easily my favorite political cartoonist, period. For the politically aware in Utah, he is almost legendary, enjoying superstar status. I've been aware of him since I was a kid, and I always loved his cartoons. Not only does his artistic style appeal to me, he has a way of illustrating a situation in politics that explains it more clearly than a thousand words. His cartoons are humorous, though darkly so. And with every one, you can't help but feel he's had the last word.

Well, that sure got weird, didn't it? Tribune's takeover of what used to be called Times-Mirror was messy when it started, a decade and a half ago, and has gotten worse every few years: This is the company, after all, that took over several great newspapers, crowed about "synergy," and made a few legendary editors so uncomfortable that they left their posts. And they sold their papers to Sam Zell, who had no background in newspapers and made an even bigger mess of things before filing for Chapter 11. Last fall, the company put Tribune Tower, where its original newspaper is based, up for sale. But now Tribune has a new trick: It has renamed itself tronc – a term that means, in French, "poor box," and if modulated to "trunk," something worse. According to Tribune's current chair, Michael Ferro – who was invited onto the board by former CEO Jack Griffin, whom he fired -- this is a bold step into the future.