Dear Lori Lightfoot: I’m Confused
2020-07-24 – Dear Mayor Lightfoot: I’m confused. Trump threatens to send his storm troopers to Chicago and you supposedly say no. But then you agree to take DEA and FBI […]
Tag Archives: Chicago
City of Chicago Still Paying Hush Money to Keep Bad Cops in Business
2016-06-02 – A couple months ago we heard Dean Angelo, president of Chicago’s Fraternal Order of Police, whine that efforts to break the force’s code of silence would hurt morale […]
Zero Tolerance
2016-04-05 – C’mon Chicago. We just got a nominee for police superintendent in Eddie Johnson. He seemed like a decent pick. And today we learn that Eddie’s fiancé is under […]
Fixing the Chicago Police
2016-04-03 – I’m probably not the most objective person about police. I’ve never been arrested or hurt by a cop, but the many encounters I’ve had have been pretty distasteful. […]
Rahm Proposes Dog-Poop Fine as Thinly Disguised Tax
2016-03-22 – Rahm is at it again! (And we thought he was different from the Daleys.) These politicians don’t want to take the heat for taxes. And they don’t want […]
Global Warming and Politics in the Windy City
2015-02-24 – In a few hours we’ll know whether we’re going to have an election for mayor in the City of Chicago. What’s that, you say, aren’t you having one […]
Fungible Cubs
2013-05-01 – So the Cubs want to leave Chicago if they don’t get their demands met. Bye! Baseball teams are fungible. If the Cubs go, after a few years they […]
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