Austin: Chicago\’s Deadliest Neighborhood? – The 312 – July 2012 – Chicago.
Not per capita, Chi Mag says in re: Crain’s Chi Business article, which writer praises, offering this as well-meant corrective:
| Neighborhood |
Population |
Homicides |
Homicides per 100k |
| Washington Park |
11,717 |
10 |
85.3 |
| West Garfield Park |
18,001 |
14 |
77.8 |
| West Englewood |
35,505 |
26 |
73.2 |
| Woodlawn |
25,983 |
18 |
69.3 |
| Greater Grand Crossing |
32,602 |
22 |
67.5 |
| Englewood |
30,654 |
19 |
62.0 |
| North Lawndale |
35,912 |
21 |
58.5 |
| Chicago Lawn |
55,628 |
26 |
46.7 |
| New City |
44,377 |
20 |
45.1 |
| Chatham |
31,028 |
11 |
35.5 |
| Auburn Gresham |
48,743 |
17 |
34.9 |
| Austin |
98,514 |
34 |
34.5 |
| South Shore |
49,767 |
17 |
34.2 |
| West Pullman |
29,651 |
10 |
33.7 |
| Roseland |
44,619 |
14 |
31.4 |
| Humboldt Park |
56,323 |
13 |
23.1 |
| Brighton Park |
45,368 |
10 |
22.0 |
| Near West Side |
54,881 |
11 |
20.0 |
| South Lawndale |
79,288 |
14 |
17.7 |
Michael Sneed, female columnist, tells NY archdiocese p.r. man to “check [his] facts” after he refers to her as Mister Sneed.
She had suggested NY Cardinal Dolan had simply copied the pope when he visited prisoners.
The p.r. man said it’s been standard practice for Card. Dolan.
“Check your facts,” said Ms. Sneed, attempting to make silk purse out of sow’s ear, that is, her jumping to a cute conclusion.
Here are a few items from previous centuries:
“Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper.
Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.”
– Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
Source: letter to John Norvell, June 11, 1807
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Thomas.Jefferson.Quote.1154
“Newspapers have degenerated.
They may now be
absolutely relied upon.”
– Oscar Wilde
(1854-1900)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Oscar.Wilde.Quote.47CB
“The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines
is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.”
– Samuel Butler
(1835-1902)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Samuel.Butler.Quote.5674
The Wilde quote is ambiguous. “Relied upon” to lead us astray, apparently.
Black aldermen vs. Chi police chief McCarthy. Met with Mayor Rahm’s liaison about murders in their wards.
Ald. Will Burns (4th), who attended the meeting with Hynes, added, “We want peoples’ rights to be respected. But we want more aggressive policing. We want more traffic stops, DUI and seat belt enforcement as a way to find the bad guys.”
Sounds reasonable to me, but years ago stop-and-frisk was a byword for aggressive police action and black citizens and others vociferously objected.
Question would be: Can this Ald. Burns and his fellow Black Caucus members take the heat from the sort of police activity he wants? Can you imagine the uproar in their neighborhoods?
This accident waiting to happen in the wild and woolly world of newspapers and copy editing happened in this week’s Oak Leaves:
Among items discussed Monday by Oak Park’s finance committee was employment of five full-time engineers. Trustee John Hedges asked if having in-house employees was the most cost-effective way to go.
Having in-house engineers, staff responded, was more efficient than contracting the work out.
“They are extremely efficient,” Pubic Works Director John Wielebnicki said.
I say leave people’s privates alone.
Crtiquing “2016: Obama’s America” Richard Roeper makes no mention of or reference to Frank Marshall, young Barack’s communist mentor, chosen for him by his communist-sympathetic grandfather, a drinking buddy of Marshall, according to the movie.
Nor of Barack’s general red-diaper-baby upbringing, his mother being thoroughly devoted to leftist causes, including anti-American anti-colonialism.
Indeed, according to the film, his mother sent him away as a boy to Hawaii to be raised by her thoroughly leftist parents, to make him free of the influence of her then-husband, the Indonesian Soetoro, who was working for American oil companies and rejected the anti-Western mindset.
Roeper missed all this, focusing on production amateurisms and failing to dispute them if he disagreed. He really missed the film’s main points, to judge from his review.
Small-business people can’t get the loans they need, reports Sun-Times.
While credit has loosened since the height of the financial crisis, the dollar volume of loans and numbers of loans made by large banks to small businesses still remains well below the levels seen prior to the recession locally and nationally.
Well what I don’t know about bank lending would . . . (you know the rest) and I hate to go out on a limb. . .
But low, low interest rates decreed by the nation’s fiscal authorities might have something to do with it. Maybe?
Same head,continued: “Dems concede excitement level lower than” — SORRY — unlike 2008.
It’s not lower. It’s
different. Like level 2 for men’s shoes, level 3 for ladies’ undergarments. It’s all in how you say things, not in whatever the hell you are saying.
And let us pass over in silence another Sun-Times hard-copy head, about what Obama plans for the convention this week: “MESSGAGE: LOOK WHAT I’VE DONE.”
It shows how hard it is to get good help these days.
Mature demographic! That’s me! As in Chi Trib hard-copy caption (for Hartford Courant article by Kevin Hunt):
. . . over-size, amped-up, large-print Clarity Pal cellphone [featuring] old-school style and substance.”
That’s me too!
Oh yes, the days of early clock radio, 1946 with three brothers home from wars and waking of a morning to “Paradiddle Joe . . . beats out the rhythm in a rudimental way . . . Paradiddle Joe all the day,” about an indefatigable drummer. Wake to that sound, you’re ready for anything.
Tony Pastor and orchestra, Johnny Morris on drums. Yeah!
Evil Blogger Lady on the empty-chair schtick:
I thought it was funny that night. But I did not realize how much it would upset the left! Even Barack Obama did not ignore it (which suggests it is worrying Obama 2012)… .
And Jennifer Rubin:
I was there and it was darn weird. But at times it was funny and devastating in its dismissal of the president’s excuses. And in clips and sound bites the day after the live performance, the oddness is diminished and the punch lines seem more biting. In simple terms, the movie icon encapsulated the message of the convention: If someone is doing a bad job, you have to fire him.
Yes.
She adds reference to Obama supporters’ “obsessive plea for more details about Romney’s policies.” Which he has given, she adds to that. But no matter: Chi Trib today has its “short on details” story (LA Times story)
And Richard Fernandez:
It was an old man’s delivery, but overstatedly so for effect. It was a cutting delivery and for that reason delivered in low key. But for all of Clint Eastwood’s rhetorical cleverness at the Republican convention it derived its effectiveness precisely because it wasn’t one of those “I take this platform tonight with pen in hand, bearing in mind the immortal words of Clancy M. Duckworth” type orations. It wasn’t the speech of someone who was running for office.
Rather it might have come from Mr. Weller down at the corner office musing on simple things to not very important people. How it wasn’t good form to mess things up continuously. How one might lose faith in a man who made one broken promise too many. How at the end of the day everyone either did the job or quit out of decency. Even Presidents.
Remember. Empty Chair Day tomorrow.
(H/T the irreplaceable Instapundit)
