Recent Comments
Re: “Aldermen raise serious questions about billboard deal, then advance it anyway”
Mayfair Dad: No. Arena's not on the joint committee that considered this, and Moore was a no show. Stay tuned ...
Re: “South-side residents fend off pawnshop plan”
IAC: I don't believe the two situations are parallel. For starters, there was hardly universal agreement that the basketball hoops in Uptown should come down after being up for about two decades--in fact, there was zero public process to determine where the community stood on that issue, and in the end the Park District was persuaded to put the hoops back up. In contrast, I didn't meet a single resident who was thrilled with the idea of a new pawnshop coming into the 18th Ward; at the very least, opponents far outnumbered those open to the plan at public hearings. So I guess you can accuse me of favoring public input in both instances.
As always, thanks for reading and weighing in.
Re: “New pot law hasn't ended grass gap”
For all the nerds interested in some of the raw figures, feel free to go here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?ke…
Re: “The people v. the pawnshop”
Just sayin: Your main point is a good one--the majority of the ward voted for Alderman Lane, period. I do wonder whether a single strong opponent would have produced a different outcome, but that's just speculation.
As for your other point: I appreciate the compliment, but I'm surrounded by terrific journalists in this newsroom.
Thanks for reading.
Re: “New pot law hasn't ended grass gap”
Seriously, one of my questions is whether some people should be busted for a crime that's not considered a crime for others. Another is whether people should be arrested for supplying something that used by millions of people in mainstream America. A third is whether the gangs would be the gangs without the black market created by current policies.
Re: “In college football, the only defense is a good offense”
And we only express our revulsion for Notre Dame once or twice a week. Thanks for checking it out.
Re: “City officials say they're committed to community policing, just not to funding it”
The worth of CAPS varies widely from beat to beat, depending mostly on how many neighbors are committed to it, which in turn is related to whether the police show up each month. But the idea of doing anything proactive to prevent crime rarely makes the to-do list.
Angela, you're right that it's going to take more than a good program to address with open air drug markets that have been around for decades.... But it's hard to see how anything ever happen if residents aren't in the mix.