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Mayor Lightfoot, CarJackings and boredom. Update on Ukraine and the culture of smoking

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Mayor Lightfoot, CarJackings and boredom, and update on Ukraine plus the culture of smoking

Two Guys on Politics: Live on Facebook is a discussion about a wide range of topics, many focused on politics locally in Chicagoland but examining issues nationally and international.

This week’s Season 2, Episode 6 “Two Guys on Politics” podcast, taped on Feb. 10, 2022, looks at how COVID is being used as an excuse for everything from rising prices to even crime, including carjackings and boredom, and also explores rising tensions between Russia and the United States on Ukraine. 

Hosts Ray Hanania and Bill Lipinski also discuss the powerful impact that smoking cigarettes had on their lives and the factors involved in how society and Hollywood promoted smoking targeting young people throughout most of the 20th Century.

Watch the podcast on Facebook by clicking this link or download or listen to the audio podcast by clicking this link, Anchor.fm, or download it from your favorite podcasting platform such as iTunes or Spotify.

 

Two Guys on Politics podcast with Former Congressman Bill Lipinski and former Chicago City Hall reporter Ray Hanania www.TwoGuysonPolitics.com

 

In a live broadcast on Facebook, former Congressman Bill Lipinski and former Chicago City Hall reporter Ray Hanania discuss Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s comment that car jackers are basically young people who are bored, and news that two teenagers who is wearing a monitoring ankle bracelets were arrested for shooting another teenager  … we’ll discuss updates in the Ukraine crisis … and talk about our experiences involving smoking.

 

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Bill Lipinski served as Democratic Committeeman/Alderman of Chicago’s 23rd Ward. Lipinski was elected to Congress in 1983 and served through 2005. He currently writes the “Right from the Center” opinion column at www.SuburbanChicagoland.com.

Ray Hanania covered Chicago City Hall from 1976 through 1992 and writes mainstream opinion columns for The Southwest News Newspaper Group and Middle East column at the Arab News Newspaper www.ArabNews.com

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Ray Hanania is an award-winning opinion columnist, author & former Chicago City Hall reporter (1977-1992). A veteran who served during the Vietnam War and the recipient of four SPJ Peter Lisagor Awards for column writing, Hanania writes weekly opinion columns on mainstream American & Chicagoland topics for the Southwest News-Herald, Des Plaines Valley News, the Regional News, The Reporter Newspapers, and Suburban Chicagoland.  

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