- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 12, 2013
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Chicago’s gun laws keep getting tougher, but more people are breaking them
Chicago has the toughest gun laws in the country, but it's not clear what they're accomplishing.
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 7, 2013
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We voted. Now the church votes.
The state of the church—as a billion Catholics wait to be told who their next leader is.
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 22, 2013
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Drug arrests drop in Chicago but still snare thousands in black neighborhoods
While Mexican cartel leader "Chapo" Guzman is public enemy number one, most drug busts still snag street-level players.
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 21, 2013
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Bad news and good news about racial prejudice
Can unconscious bias be overcome?
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 15, 2013
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How about a war on the roots of violence?
The people responsible for drug and gang violence follow a pattern: despair.
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 14, 2013
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The speech Obama should give in Chicago
Is there something deeper than gun violence that we need to focus on?
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 12, 2013
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Sammy Sosa, Lenny Skutnik, and the State of the Union
Sosa made it into an elite SOTU club, if not the HOF.
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 7, 2013
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Murder and segregation: till death do they part
"We have to help Chicago," education secretary Arne Duncan says.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 30, 2013
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The local media exposes similarities between situations that aren't actually similar at all
Republican electoral reform and the Obama power play are not equivalent, no matter what newspapers say.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 24, 2013
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What has Emanuel done so far about racial segregation?
"Old problems cry out for better results," the mayor said nearly two years ago.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 22, 2013
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Will senators end the silent filibuster option, or stand mutely by?
Majority leader Harry Reid seems to favor watered-down filibuster reform.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 21, 2013
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Obama speaks up on inequality
The president's speech was rich in platitudes, but at least many were aimed in one direction.
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 27, 2012
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Another evolution: President Obama and Mayor Rahm take a stand
President Obama slowly starts another one of his famous evolutions—on marijuana reform and gun control—just in time for the shifts in the polls
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 19, 2012
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If only Mayor Rahm treated Chicagoans like they were gun lovers
When it comes to treating the paying customers with disdain, Bears star Brian Urlacher has nothing on Mayor Rahm
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 19, 2012
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Jerry Reinsdorf—the smartest team owner in town
The Bulls owner doesn't need a subsidy for the United Center any more than the Ricketts need one at Wrigley Field
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 9, 2012
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Marijuana votes produce legal haze and hope for reforms
Legalization votes in Colorado and Washington show that the nation's marijuana policies are a tangled mess
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 30, 2012
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Hurricane Christie lifts Obama
Is Governor Christie a man-made disaster for Romney's presidential hopes?
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 26, 2012
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Rahmnesia
On politicians not subject to recall
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 12, 2012
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Good news: poverty not worse
The U.S. poverty rate remains high, but it didn't rise in 2011
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 11, 2012
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Census stats likely to show highest poverty rate since 1965
When will the presidential candidates notice?
