Chicago Friday 8/31/2001 1030
David Greising, Chicago Tribune
Mr. Greising:
Thanks so much for your column of Wednesday, August29, 2001,"Soldier Field in need of civic intervention". It'seven better than Blair Kamin's. Your two-worddescription of the Bears/Soldier Field monstrosity("disastrous decision") is the best I've seen.
Wasn't the main reason for subjecting the ParkDistrict to state legislative oversight in 1934 was tominimize local political mistakes in managingChicago's park system? And now the Legislature can'twait to jump on the worst parks decision since 1934.
I just hope your column can help fix things beforeit's too late.
Arnold H. Nelson
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Friday, August 31, 2001
Tuesday, August 28, 2001
Knots and miles per hour
Chicago August 28, 2001 Tuesday, 0900
Tom Skilling, chief meteorologist at WGN-TV
Dear Tom,
Your column today (Tuesday, August 28, 2001,)answering a reader's question about the relationshipof knots and miles per hour says:
"One knot means one nautical mile per hour and isequivalent to 1.1508 statute miles, our common unit ofmeasurement."
One knot certainly means one nautical mile per hour,and one nautical mile means 1.1508 statute miles, butone knot is not equivalent to 1.1508 statute miles;one knot is equivalent to 1.1508 statute miles perhour.
Your column is just about the first thing I read inthe Tribune every day. Keep up the good work.
Arnold H. Nelson 5056 North Marine Drive Chicago 60640
Tom Skilling, chief meteorologist at WGN-TV
Dear Tom,
Your column today (Tuesday, August 28, 2001,)answering a reader's question about the relationshipof knots and miles per hour says:
"One knot means one nautical mile per hour and isequivalent to 1.1508 statute miles, our common unit ofmeasurement."
One knot certainly means one nautical mile per hour,and one nautical mile means 1.1508 statute miles, butone knot is not equivalent to 1.1508 statute miles;one knot is equivalent to 1.1508 statute miles perhour.
Your column is just about the first thing I read inthe Tribune every day. Keep up the good work.
Arnold H. Nelson 5056 North Marine Drive Chicago 60640
Saturday, August 4, 2001
Chicago Tribune 'L' train graphic
Saturday, August 4, 2001 10:52 AM
Stacy SweatAssoc. Managing Editor/Design and Graphics
Chicago Tribune
Ms. Sweat: In another outstanding Tribune graphic(this one on the front page of the Saturday, August 4,edition on the Brown/Purple line elevated train accident Friday morning) there is a problem: The drawing shows two sets of tracks (quite clearly on thebottom of the drawing, very clearly on the top) but according to the 'direction of travel' indicator arrow, the trains are shown to be proceeding on the left hand track. Was the illustrator simultaneously working on a drawing of the Union Pacific Northwestline car/train accident on the same morning? UP commuter trains in the Chicago area do run on the left(an obscure, but interesting, reason for that,) but CTA trains run on the right.
You and your staff do a great job. I always lookforward to the graphics.
Arn Nelson 5056 North Marine Drive Chicago 60640 773-728-0047
Stacy SweatAssoc. Managing Editor/Design and Graphics
Chicago Tribune
Ms. Sweat: In another outstanding Tribune graphic(this one on the front page of the Saturday, August 4,edition on the Brown/Purple line elevated train accident Friday morning) there is a problem: The drawing shows two sets of tracks (quite clearly on thebottom of the drawing, very clearly on the top) but according to the 'direction of travel' indicator arrow, the trains are shown to be proceeding on the left hand track. Was the illustrator simultaneously working on a drawing of the Union Pacific Northwestline car/train accident on the same morning? UP commuter trains in the Chicago area do run on the left(an obscure, but interesting, reason for that,) but CTA trains run on the right.
You and your staff do a great job. I always lookforward to the graphics.
Arn Nelson 5056 North Marine Drive Chicago 60640 773-728-0047
Sunday, June 24, 2001
Not you, Matt....
..."THE QUEENS CRISIS SUMMIT OVER THATCHER SUNDAY MAIL [UK]JUNE 24, 2001"
I know the possessive apostrophe is taking a beatingfrom the modern relaxation of english standards, but you too?
Arn Nelson
from the democrat occiupied west bank of Lake MichiganIllinois 9th CD
I know the possessive apostrophe is taking a beatingfrom the modern relaxation of english standards, but you too?
Arn Nelson
from the democrat occiupied west bank of Lake MichiganIllinois 9th CD
Saturday, June 23, 2001
Almanac error
Chicago Saturday, June 23, 2001
Chicago Tribune:
The Almanac column of Saturday, June 23, 2001 says: "In 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt and VicePresident Charles Fairbanks were nominated byacclamation for another term by Republicans meeting inChicago."
Charles Fairbanks was not Vice President onJune 23, 1904, since there was no vice president from September 14, 1901, when Theodore Roosevelt became president on the death of William McKinley, until Fairbanks was inaugurated on March 4, 1905.
Fairbankswas never nominated for another term as vicepresident.
Arnold H. Nelson 5056 North Marine Drive B-8 Chicago 60640
Chicago Tribune:
The Almanac column of Saturday, June 23, 2001 says: "In 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt and VicePresident Charles Fairbanks were nominated byacclamation for another term by Republicans meeting inChicago."
Charles Fairbanks was not Vice President onJune 23, 1904, since there was no vice president from September 14, 1901, when Theodore Roosevelt became president on the death of William McKinley, until Fairbanks was inaugurated on March 4, 1905.
Fairbankswas never nominated for another term as vicepresident.
Arnold H. Nelson 5056 North Marine Drive B-8 Chicago 60640
Tuesday, July 5, 1994
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