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Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Rahm explains Monday's shootings. Safe Passage is only during the time the children come to school and leave school.

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Rahm explains Monday's shootings. Safe Passage is only during the time the children come to school and leave school.:

Rahm explains Monday's shootings. Safe Passage is only during the time the children come to school and leave school.

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"I'm like any parent — I'm wary," said Willie Dixon, one of several CeaseFire workers walking the Uptown streets around the shooting scene Tuesday. Dixon's 7th-grade son attends Brenneman. "I'm very concerned, but I've got to keep faith." 

When you leave home today, bring an umbrella. Why? Rahm's back from wherever. I know this because it's raining bullshit.  Yes, the BS was really flying yesterday at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the expanded Jones College Prep in the South Loop -- a ceremony from which 2nd Ward Ald. Bob Fioretti was purposely excluded even though it's his ward.

After hearing about Monday's shooting of five people along a safe-passage route in Uptown, Rahm called  the shootings "an early warning sign to all of us to be more on our toes than we were already on our toes."

An early warning sign? On your toes? What the hell does that mean?

Yes, stand on your tippy toes all you want. I mean the shooter's car was parked right in front of McCutcheon Elementary School, 4865 N. Sheridan Rd. and now there's bone, blood and bullet casings along the route was planned for children who are being moved to Brenneman