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Broccoli, anyone? Ringo Starr, of Beatles fame, has more energy than most 20-year-olds and continues to perform all over. His secret? Plenty of broccoli.

City Council action. A new parking meter deal, a new threshold to approve borrowing and more played out in Chicago this week.

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Former Chicagoans making news. Pope Leo XIV had plenty to say aboard an Air France flight, and Ken Griffin has pledged a whopping $3 billion to build a new Carnegie Mellon campus in Miami.

  1. “I still just eat broccoli.” — Ringo Starr, who continues to tour at age 86
  2. “No property tax increase. No head tax or tax on job growth. No counting Springfield money that has not been approved.” — City Council Budget Accountability Coalition, a bloc of 29 Chicago aldermen setting the tone ahead of budget season
  3. “On the contrary, it is precisely in the name of this inalienable dignity of the human person that we must reject the temptation to cause death under the guise of false compassion. What is legal is not necessarily moral.” — Pope Leo
  4. “This was the definition of high stakes. I think through gritty and nuanced negotiations, and by facing the hard-hitting truths, I think today we delivered to all of Chicago a better deal than we delivered in 2008.” — Finance Committee Chair Ald. Pat Dowell, 3rd
  5. “The milestone was: What’s it going to take to support Carnegie Mellon University as one of the greatest universities in America? And: What’s it going to take to create the bandwidth to bring them here to Miami?” — Citadel CEO and former Chicagoan Ken Griffin on his $3 billion donation to build a new Carnegie Mellon campus in Miami
  6. “To get better, the first thing you got to do is admit you’re doing something wrong. And in this situation, with all that’s going on and all the stuff, we probably got to step back from it and say, ‘Maybe we’re doing something wrong here or there,’ and then adjust to that.” — Republican U.S. Sen. Jim Justice of West Virginia, calling on ICE to scale back enforcement sweeps
  7. “If you don’t believe you can be in the playoffs and we can win games in the playoffs, you shouldn’t be here. At the time, I think the only people that believed in us were in our locker room.” — White Sox pitcher Davis Martin, after the South Siders won their best-of-three wild card series