Comment: This was about an email exchange in which Rahm responded to our Wirepoints article, “The shock and awe budget address Rahm should have given.” This article describes our piece as “radical.” Just wait until they see the consequences of ignoring the need for radical reform. And you’d think the Sun-Times would at least give us attribution for our article, given that we send them tens of thousands of pageviews.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s law department again has been sanctioned for withholding records involving a fatal police shooting, marking the eighth time in recent years a federal judge has formally punished the city for failing to turn over potential evidence in a police misconduct lawsuit. U.S District Court Judge Joan Gottschall on Tuesday ruled that the city acted in “bad faith” when it ignored a court order and made little effort to provide documents to the lawyer for the family of 20-year-old Divonte Young, who was shot and killed by police in 2012.

Chicago’s Honey Butter Fried Chicken is among a couple of dozen restaurants across the country to sign onto a new “sanctuary restaurant” movement meant to offer safe workplaces for immigrants, Muslims and other communities they feel are under threat in the current political climate.  They place prominent signs that state “SANCTUARY RESTAURANTS: A Place At the Table for Everyone” at their establishments. Comment: Let’s just say it wouldn’t be wise to park a car in front with a “Make America Great Again” bumper sticker.

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Chicago is bleeding. And Chicago’s Democratic president and the Democratic mayor are impotent to stop it, even in the Democratic city, in this dark blue and fiscally ruined Democratic state.

A look at the issue and some of the options that might be available.

Comment: Throw more money at violent communities — that’s what this article says — the standard answer from a standard prog, Ben Joravsky. No, this is a social issue, too. Countless populations of poor people today and throughout history have been safer from violence than Chicago’s today. Unless and until African-American communities themselves take ownership of the crime problem, it won’t be solved.

Comment: I can’t find much “learning” in this article.