| Easy, make-ahead snacks key to party's game plan
Getting the goods onto the coffee table shouldn't detract from your time in front of the screen. It's easy to do a lot of the work in advance, since the very essence of sports-event eating is snack food. The key is taking flavors and presentation up a notch. So sure, chips and dip are fine, but make sure the dips aren't your standard affair. And setting up assemble-it-yourself dishes gives those less inclined to watch every play a good gathering spot with something to amuse themselves. .
Once Colored by Mike Royko, Chicago Newspapers Now Shaped by Money Men ...
Nor do most Chicagoans wake up anymore to the Chicago Tribune or Chicago Sun-Times with their cornflakes. Or end the day with the Chicago Daily News and a martini in their easy chair. (Who remembers easy chairs? Martinis?) With its tail between its legs, the Tribune Company which own the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, other newspapers, WGN television and the Chicago Cubs, just went private under a $8.2 billion buyout engineered by local real estate tycoon Sam Zell. Bedeviled by a $1 billion tax bill from buying Times Mirror and Los Angeles Times in 2000--it was a taxable sale not a restructuring says the IRS--the Tribune Company is now owned by an S-corp ESOP employee stock ownership plan which makes "selling for parts" difficult in the near future since it pays no corporate taxes.
More battles with blasto
Just two weeks ago, Tom Poderzay noticed his chocolate lab, Cocoa, was not feeling well. He was sluggish and had no appetite, Poderzay said, A day later he started coughing. Poderzay knew right away that such symptoms in a dog could prove fatal and immediately brought Cocoa to the Ely Vet Clinic. He was worried that Cocoa had contracted a disease called blastomycosis, a disease that had killed many of his neighbors dogs over the past few years. They checked his blood and his lungs and they seemed okay, Poderzay said, But an x-ray showed signs of blastomycosis. Treating blastomycosis in dogs is expensive, and even with treatment, many dogs still die. Poderzay said he is lucky that he can afford the medication, which will cost $15 a day for 90 days, as well as related vet visit costs.
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