A no-brainer for Liz?

Last time we caught up with Liz Dueweke, former anchor for KOMO and Fox 13, she had taken a job in Sept 2024 as a senior communication specialist at the Allen Brain Institute in Seattle's South Lake Union, working for ex-KING reporter Rob Piercy. Well, the synapses apparently didn't fire too well and Liz has now taken her brain to an anchor slot at WFLD, the Fox station in Chicago, per her posts on Instagram. Her accompanying quote on the post was "Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in," recalling the Pacino line from Godfather 3, which has become a cliche. Anyway, WGN owns mornings in Chi-town so good luck at what has been an also-ran much of the time there. She was once married to Adam Mertz, who worked for a time at KING. And before joining Allen, she worked for Sinclair out in the 'West Texas town of El Paso'. Wow, she sure can pick her TV companies, can't she?

I never got her act, sorry.

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