By Steve Rhodes
Three-and-a-half hour conference call for census training this morning set my day back. In that vein, enjoy these census tweets/stories (I am in no way officially representing the census):
Posted on July 9, 2020
The [Wednesday] Papers
“The red-light camera company entangled in a federal corruption investigation and an airport janitorial contractor in Chicago are among the clout-heavy companies getting large amounts of federal funding to weather the coronavirus pandemic, according to documents released this week by Trump administration officials,” WBEZ reports.
“Another loan from Washington’s new Paycheck Protection Program went to the security firm owned by Sean Morrison, the south suburban politician who leads the Cook County Republicans and is a commissioner on the county board.”
OK, but did these companies do anything wrong in applying for and receiving PPP funds?
Posted on July 8, 2020
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes
In no way do I want to diminish the awful, horrific gun violence we’ve been seeing lately in Chicago that has, in particularly, led to the deaths of several children. It’s almost unspeakable and unimaginable, yet hauntingly familiar. It’s heartbreaking, and like so many others, including y’all, I don’t know what to say about it anymore.
But I do want to point out – because it’s necessary if we’re ever going to find a solution – that this isn’t just a Chicago problem, though it’s always been more intractable here than in New York City and Los Angeles.
Posted on July 7, 2020
The Weekend Desk Report
By Steve Rhodes
Trump-themed gun among 17 firearms seized by Chicago police over holiday weekend https://t.co/gJAiArRYv0
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) July 5, 2020
Posted on July 4, 2020
The [Thursday] Papers
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes
“Civil rights advocates and some criminologists are panning a Chicago plan to arrest teenagers on ‘drug corners’ this week to keep them from inflaming the city’s traditional July 4 gun-violence surge,” WBEZ reports.
First, the civil rights advocates and some criminologists are right.
Second, I’m glad WBEZ specified who is panning the plan instead of just using the catch-all “critics,” which tends to, in my mind, diminish those voices and make them subservient to “officials.”
Posted on July 1, 2020
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes
Senior U.S. officials–including Trump’s former secretaries of state and defense, two national security advisers and his longest-serving chief of staff–concluded that Trump himself posed a danger to the national security of the United States.https://t.co/SjxWBF2kgX
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) June 29, 2020
Posted on June 30, 2020
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes
“Three more youngsters were killed in another shattering weekend of gun violence in Chicago, one week after five children were fatally shot and a week ahead of the Fourth of July holiday,” the Tribune reports.
In response, police chief David Brown said this morning that he was putting 1,200 more cops on the street this weekend, the Sun-Times reports.
Posted on June 29, 2020
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes
So let me see if I have this straight:
The CTU is mad because the school board that voted Wednesday against removing cops from schools is unelected. But the vote leaves in place the option for Local School Councils, which are elected, to remove cops from schools. So in the end, it’s up to the electeds. Isn’t that what the CTU wants?
Posted on June 25, 2020