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August, 2017 www.LakeviewNewspaper.com Lakeview Newspaper Page 1 Money Best Bets for August 2017 FREE - Our 21st Year Saving Tips Back to School Lakeview, Roscoe Village, Lincoln Square Page 4 Page 10 & NorthCenter August, 2017 “We don’t make the news, we just report it.” Volume 21, Number 9 Interview Power and Money tinguished Flying Cross by Joyce Rimel and died in action as a On Wednesday, July division, we also have er seven years before how this works.” Julian 2200 26th, Mayor Rahm to beat the city that it expires.” “The Cubs Green, Cubs spokes- Navy pilot. QQuestionsuestions Emanuel said NO to we play in to try and have chosen to sched- man, responded to the Q. Who had/has the the Chicago Cubs re- win games.” “At some ule concerts instead of Mayor’s statement that greatest infl uence in quest to play more point, we’d love to not night games.” the Cubs should be a This month’s interview is your life? night games. The be handicapped, as no Mayor Emanuel told good neighbor and to with Frank Maniscalco A. My father. Cubs wanted to host other team in baseball the Chicago Sun Times, have a “good neighbor of Grein Funeral Direc- Q. If you could 11 more games at night is by the number of “They could have used attitude.” Green said tors at 2114 West Irving meet anyone in the bringing them to a total night games you play,” it for night games, but that millions of dollars Park Road. world,who would that of 54. The combination Kenney said. then, they would have has been invested in person be and why? of night games and Alderman Tom Tunn- to share it with Ma- the community, includ- Q. Where were you A. Abraham Lincoln concerts totals 46. ey in a statement said, jor League Baseball.” ing a recent $1 million Cubs President of “The ordinance govern- “The concerts they contribution to secu- born and raised? because he had a very Business Operations, ing evening activities keep all for themselves rity cameras and a $1 A. I was born in amazing mind and the Crane Kenney, told the inside Wrigley Field like they do the beer on billion dollar stadium Chicago and raised in ability to communicate Chicago Sun Times, was negotiated by the the plaza.” “You make renovation that creat- Old Town. eff ectively. “We’re one of the few Cubs, the community, those choices, you live ed “thousands” of jobs Q. Are you married? Q. If you could travel teams that not only has myself and the Mayor’s with the consequences and will generate $30 Any children? to any country in the to beat everyone in our offi ce and has anoth- of the choices.” “That’s million in annual tax A. No and no children. world, where would Continued page 2 Q. Where did you that place be and why? attend school? A. Salzberg, Austria. What’s on your Mind? A. DePaul Acade- It is charming and so my High School and beautiful. Loyola in Chicago. Q. What would you like Q. What was your fi rst to do in your life that paying job? you haven’t done so A. Working at gift re- far? demption for Gulf and A. Persue my career Western and a mens’ in the arts. Do more clothing salesman for painting. Lyttons. Q. What is your favor- Q. Who do you most ite TV show, movie and “Buying a new condo in the “When driving, they should “Am I ever going to be ban all the right turns on admire and why? book? Lakeview neighborhood.” able to retire because of all red and almost nobody these ridiculous taxes?” A. My mother's brother A. My favorite TV show uses their turn signal.” who was killed in World is”The American Ex- War II and was a true perience” on PBS; my Eli Turnbough German Martinez William Rodriguez hero. He won the Dis- Continued page 2 Page 2 Lakeview Newspaper www.LakeviewNewspaper.com August, 2017 Editorial & Opinions Interview continued from front foreign companies operating in China. page. Products? Despite its membership in the World Trade Organization, China favorite movie is “West is robustly mercantilist. Brad Setser of the Council on Foreign Relations Side Story” and fa- points out that imported manufactures vorite book is “20,000 as a share of the Chinese economy peaked in 2003 and have been falling Leagues Under the since. What Xi calls “win-win coop- Sea”. eration” is the rest of the world open- ing its markets to China while China Q. What are your three refuses to reciprocate. biggest successes? Xi also toes the Davos line on cli- No, China Isn’t mate change, to the delight of credu- A. Playing a guitar in a Going to Lead lous Westerners. China’s leadership working band and be- consists of making a pledge as part of The world has had its delusions the Paris accords to reach peak emis- ing able to benefi t from about China over the years, but none sions in 2030 — a goal consistent with a good education and quite as fantastical as the notion of the trajectory of its economy anyway Beijing assuming the mantle of global — and planning to make a mint by being able to travel a leadership. selling to the West green technology it great deal. Ever since Donald Trump’s election, has developed through its characteris- a Russian lawyer with close ties to it has been a journalistic trope to spec- tic unscrupulous means. Q. What are your three the Kremlin, and with oligarchs and ulate that China is about to take the There is no doubt that China, the mobsters for clients. Also there was lead on globalization, climate change world’s second-largest economy, is biggest disappoint- Rinat Akhmetshin, a Russian-Ameri- and international diplomacy. much more assertive on the interna- ments? can lobbyist who began his adult life Knowing his audience, President tional stage than it used to be, but the working in Soviet intelligence. Then Xi Jinping has stoked this tripe by idea of it as a global leader, or as a A. Not having traveled there was Rob Goldstone, public-re- mouthing all the right cliches in front responsible power, or even as an admi- enough. Being more lations person to another oligarch’s of the right audiences. He gave a rable country is daft. family (Russian, not American), the speech at Davos heavy on the theme It props up the lunatic regime in involved in Holography one who had enticed young Donald of openness and promised to help North Korea because it fears the pros- and not doing enough with his email promising damaging lead globalization. “Any attempt to pect of a unified, democratic Korea. information about Hillary Clinton as cut off the flow of capital, technolo- It is pushing for control of the South in my art studies. “part of Russia and its government’s gies, products, industries and people China Sea, ignoring a sweeping ruling Q. Why/how did you Trump’s Russian support for Mr. Trump.” There were a between economies,” Xi said, sum- by an international tribunal against its Comedy couple of others on the Russian side, moning his best Thomas Friedman, claims of sovereignty. It is investing decide to be a funeral along with Junior, Jared and Manafort. “is simply not possible.” massively in its military — and not to director? I can tell you what the cast members It’s not clear whether they, too, were Somehow, China manages the support the cause of global openness. of “Saturday Night Live” are doing on the Russian side. impossible nonetheless. When it Clearly, one motive for the dewy- A. It was a family busi- during their off-season: They are prac- We can assume that neither Vladimir comes to information (which Xi omit- eyed press coverage of China’s pur- ness. I did many things ticing their Russian accents. Putin nor Trump Sr. were listening in ted from his litany), China cuts itself ported leadership is a distaste for Don- It would take pretty much the entire on speakerphone, and right now the off from the rest of the world quite ald Trump, who wears his disregard before I joined the busi- “SNL” group to do a bit on the meet- story from both is that they weren’t adeptly. According to the pro-democ- for the global elite on his sleeve. The ing between Don Trump Jr., Jared aware of the meeting. Putin claims ness. racy group Freedom House, China romance with Xi is a way to tweak Kushner, Paul Manafort and the gang to not know any of the participants, ranks last in the world in internet free- him. But, whatever his views on trade Q. What would you say from the Kremlin. There were alto- which is a little bit more difficult for dom, behind Iran and Syria. It blocks or climate change, Trump doesn’t run gether at least eight people at that infa- President Trump to claim. are the greatest chal- Google, YouTube, Facebook and a repressive one-party state. It’s per- mous get-together that we now know After all, Paul Manafort is the polit- Twitter, and jails people for spreading verse to be more comfortable with the lenges today in being a was called to dish some dirt on Hil- ical fixer who was Trump’s campaign rumors online, i.e., criticizing govern- president who bans Twitter over the lary Clinton. “SNL” already has been leader at the time, until he was shoved ment officials.

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