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How Chicago reclaimed the projects but lost the city
All that remains of Cabrini-Green is sad stories and the original section of row houses around which the projects grew up. Those row houses are being renovated as part of the foundations-up effort to rebuild the neighborhood. Even the name “Cabrini-Green” is being scrubbed from memory: The new mixed-income development on the site of the old Cabrini-Green Extension heaves under the unbearably pretentious name “Parkside of Old Town.” But some of the old commerce remains, and Freckles is pretty clearly an entrepreneur of the street. “You buying?” I ask what he’s selling, and he explains in reasonably civil terms that he is not in the habit of setting himself up for entrapment on a narcotics charge.
Cabrini-Green has had its share of tourists — in 1999, the film Whiteboyz found a group of Wonder Bread–colored hip-hop fans from Iowa visiting the site. But real estate and the scarcity thereof is the ruling fact of urban life, and once downtown Chicago began to evolve from a place in which people worked in factories and warehouses into a place in which people work in [....]
https://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/articles/340053/gangsterville
A nation's choice between spending on military defense and spending on civilian goods has often been posed as "guns versus butter." But understanding the choices of many nations' political leaders might be helped by examining the contrast between their runaway spending on pensions while skimping on military defense.
Huge pensions for retired government workers can be found from small municipalities to national governments on both sides of the Atlantic. There is a reason. For elected officials
, pensions are virtually the ideal thing to spend money on, politically speaking. Many kinds of spending of the taxpayers' money win votes from the recipients. But raising taxes to pay for this spending loses votes from the taxpayers. Pensions offer a way out of this dilemma for politicians.Creating pensions that offer generous retirement benefits wins votes in the present by promising spending in the future. Promises cost
nothing in the short run — and elections are held in the [....]http://www.creators.com/opinion/thomas-sowell/guns-and-pensions.html
Where Do Criminals Get Their Guns?
by Fox News,
foxnews.com
Last month Fox News invited convicted criminals to share where they get their weapons that they use in crimes. A survey of Prison inmates found that 40% get them off the street, 40% from friends and family, 4% from pawnshops and 1% from flea markets and gun shows. Does that debunk the entire gun control narrative that regulating guns shows will reduce crime?
http://youtu.be/hLLEuVwI0C4
http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/video-where-do-criminals-get-their-guns/
US gov't to air-drop toxic mice on Guam snakes
Most of Guam's native bird species are extinct because of the snake, which reached the island's thick jungles by hitching rides from the South Pacific on U.S. military ships shortly after World War II. There may be 2 million of the reptiles on Guam now, decimating wildlife, biting residents and even knocking out electricity by slithering onto power lines.
More than 3,000 miles away, environmental officials in Hawaii have long feared a similar invasion - which in their case likely would be a "snakes on a plane" scenario. That would cost the state many vulnerable species and billions of dollars, but the risk will fall if Guam's air-drop strategy succeeds.
"We are taking this to a new phase," said Daniel Vice, assistant state director of U.S. Department of Agriculture's Wildlife [....]
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