“Look,” the old man said, stopping me as I walked down Lincoln Avenue. “They moved out and left them behind!”
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I looked through the window of the empty storefront, which until recently had housed a computer store. Sitting close together were three gray-and-black cats, a mother and two kittens. I’d seen them a few times before, rubbing up against the glass or napping next to the software programs and mouse pads.
Boxes were piled up in the back, but otherwise the space was empty–no food or water bowls or litter box. So I wrote down the telephone number on the For Rent sign in the window and promised the old man I’d see what I could find out.
Early Wednesday after the primaries, WBEZ reporter Shirley Jahad asks an anonymous Rostenkowski campaign aide if he thinks their big victory has somehow cleared the clouds of scandal away from his man Rosty.
