Today is day three of the Local Independent Online News publisher’s sustainability summit in Chicago. I’ve taken a few days off to learn more about the business end of providing information to the public and meeting so many other people who are passionate about their work.

However, I can’t clear all of the deadlines I have and one of them is the weekly radio show on WTJU that airs at 6 a.m. This week I decided to re-use the podcast version of the June 11, 2024 edition of this newsletter taken from the last time I traveled to Illinois. And I figured three days without a new post is way too long, so I thought I’d share it with the Substack audience as well.

The Week Ahead for the next will be out sometime tomorrow, and then I’ll be back to regular programming likely on Tuesday.

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