The Chicago Police Department will be deploying 2,000 additional body cameras in seven police districts by the summer. Chicago Police currently use about 30 body cameras in one district on the Northwest Side, and complaints about police officers are way down so Eddie Johnson says it will help increase public trust. Dean Angelo, the President of the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police joined John with reaction to the additional piece of equipment. (Listen here)
Sarah Palin tore into Paul Ryan on CNN Sunday morning for saying he’s not quite ready to get behind Donald Trump. She declared to Jake Tapper that “Paul Ryan is soon to be Cantored” (referring to House GOP leader Eric Cantor‘s surprise midterm primary defeat). Who is Paul Ryan’s primary opponent? Should he be worried? Brian Fraley, the President of Edge Messaging and the official Big John Howell Show Cheddar Curtain Correspondent joined John with the lay of the land in Wisconsin. (Listen here)
The “Illinois Way” has been hurting most of us for a long time now, but now it’s starting to hurt politicians. Chicago Tribune Columnist and Editorial Board member Kristen McQueary joined John to talk state politics. (Listen here)
On Monday the planet Mercury will wander directly in front of the sun — a rare “transit” that only happens about 13 times a century. Most people in Europe and North America should be able to view the event through a telescope or binoculars, weather permitting. You can also catch the show live on the astronomy website Slooh.com, or via live streams from the European Space Agency and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. (Instructions for building a solar filter for your binoculars.)
The Cook County Jail was placed on lockdown Sunday morning due to low staffing levels. The lockdown is “for officer safety,” allowing inmates to move only for medical reasons, emergencies and visitation.
Finally, you can express your disgust with all of your options in the 2016 Presidential election. A new website is selling yard signs that read “Everybody Sucks 2016.”
A high school in California is apologizing after they misidentified a young Muslim student wearing a hijab as “Isis”. The yearbook has already released a statement saying it was an accident but the student, who has asked that their name not be released yet, is less than convinced.
80 year old woman in Washington state shot and killed a home intruder. The man appears to have been a burglar and had already beaten her husband with a crowbar. She says she’s “not your typical granny,” which probably goes without saying.
Sharon and Ozzy Osbourn are calling it quits after 33 years of wedded bliss. If a love like that can’t last, what hope is there for the rest of us?
