[Magdalen] Death in the city

[Sibyl Smirl]

On 8/29/16 1:08 PM, Scott Knitter wrote:
> It's just getting worse all the time...from today's Tribune...
>
> August most violent month in Chicago in 20 years
>
> August is going down as the most violent month in Chicago in 20 years,
> as weekend shootings raised the number of homicides this year to just
> a few shy of all of last year.
>
> A total of 67 people were shot over the weekend and 11 of them died.
> It was one of the deadliest weekends this year and pushed the number
> of homicides for the month to 84 with three more days to go, according
> to data collected by the Tribune.

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>>>>> It would help to live in a municipality that isn't in a panic over
>>>>> long-underfunded pension plans. So now the property taxes have soared
>>>>> and they're considering taxing water and sewer usage to be able to pay
>>>>> the pension plans.

Were any of the shootings unarmed black people shot by cops (of any color)?

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While trimming the replied material, I noticed the second part... 
Obama's wonderful economy has made things rough all over, I think.  Our 
county here got in a panic a few weeks ago, thinking we wouldn't have 
enough money to pay everybody's salaries through the end of the year. 
They hurried up and arranged a big tax sale of properties that had gone 
overdue on the property tax, and that helped, then an auditor type 
"found" some money in a long-overlooked County bank account of some sort 
that could be used with some legal formalities over the transfer to the 
general fund.  The really weird thing, though, is that the County had 
won a lawsuit from a Casino company over their guarantee to build one 
here, which hadn't worked out for them, which netted the County 
government a good several millions of dollars, and there was some 
mystery among the citizens about what had happened to _that_ money, 
since we were so suddenly so poor.  Turned out, apparently, that the 
money had been frittered away rather quickly, among other things, on 
lowering taxes (I didn't notice any taxes lowering on me!) ...  I'm glad 
I'm not an advanced bookkeeper or accountant!  Seems like a lot of 
"creative accounting" goes on that neglects basic commonsense "household 
economics".



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