Jim Baumann
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Mancow alleges in police report that ex-Harvest Bible pastor asked him to hire hitmanMay 22, 2019 1:00 am - Wilmette police late Wednesday afternoon released a report that details allegations from two former members of Rolling Meadows-based Harvest Bible Chapel that then-pasto...
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Grammar Moses: Do brand names date us?May 18, 2019 1:00 am - Last week's column on the genericization of such brand names as "Kleenex" and "Frisbee" stirred the passions of many readers. Former English major Stephen Smart was amon...
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Grammar Moses: Would you xerox this column?May 11, 2019 1:00 am - Have you ever thrown a frisbee to a seeing-eye dog or tried to xerox with a kleenex when you ran short of copy paper? If so, I worry about both your social and office sk...
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Grammar Moses: Is 'media' plural or not?Apr 27, 2019 1:00 am - As a news medium today, we often write about the news media. Carl Ball wrote me a question about that: "In the Daily Herald's editorial entitled "A foreboding report," p...
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Grammar Moses: The do's and don'ts of 'into' and 'in to'Apr 20, 2019 1:00 am - I can't poke a lot of holes in the fine reporting being done at The Washington Post, where the staff has won more Pulitzer Prizes than I've dreamed of winning, but I wil...
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Grammar Moses: Don't display that silver-colored weapon at me!Apr 13, 2019 1:00 am - I wrote last week about a police brief that was written awkwardly, in part, because we failed to translate the cop jargon in the police report. "The thing that jumped ou...
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Grammar Moses: Is the adverb an endangered species?Mar 23, 2019 1:00 am - It's a shame that David Harris quit the General Assembly in 2017, because the Arlington Heights Republican might have addressed legislatively a growing problem not just ...
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Grammar Moses: All right, already. Let's examine a-wordsMar 16, 2019 1:00 am - We have aproblem, people. Of this, I am appositive. Rampant confusion over awhile/a while, alot/a lot/allot, alright/all right and already/all ready has left me apoplect...
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Grammar Moses: Some thoughts just between you and meMar 09, 2019 12:00 am - If you're like me, you have framed your computer monitor with scraps of paper that contain really important bits of information: phone numbers, birthdays, doctor appoint...
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Grammar Moses: Of marcescence and Socratic debateFeb 23, 2019 12:00 am - One of the reasons my wife and I rarely get sick of one another is that we are both intensely curious and we both enjoy a good discussion of logic. One of us will come u...