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The tragically incompetent mayor of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot, appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union” last weekend to deflect attention from the horror show unfolding in her city by blaming interlopers for its spiking murder rate: “We are being inundated with guns from states that have virtually no gun control, no background checks, no ban on assault weapons—that is hurting cities like Chicago.”
Although these accusations have been leveled by Chicago politicians for decades now, they are a myth.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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Rockford has become pretty bad.
This statement implies Rockford was not bad in the recent past. As someone who lives nearby I can attest that Rockford has been a sewer for at least the last 20 years.
What about all the of the surrounding areas that are being “inundated” by idiots living in Chicago? Why is it that just about no where else has this problem? What type of environment creates a factory turning out murderers?