Todd

If I were a gambler, I would bet every penny to my name that none of this happened. David and his other half are insufferable narcissists who lost their minds when Trump won, then became Democrats, then realized that they needed to be victims to be fully adopted by the Left. The two of them are white and wealthy and not actual victims of anything, hence the sudden onset of the chronic race card strain of Munchausen by proxy at the very moment they abandoned their core beliefs to become leftists. They also claim they had to leave their church in Franklin because people were allegedly racist to them during communion. A fact they never share, probably because it is both hilarious and evidence the alleged incident never happened, is that this allegedly happened at a notoriously left-wing church (the most left-wing in the presbytery—even more than the one which was previously led by a pastor who claimed Christians were obligated to do security at gay pride parades) helmed by a Trump-deranged lib. They then joined a liberal black church in Nashville. Because of course they did. But that wasn’t enough, so they left the state entirely to move to Chicago, or as Jussie Smollett calls it, MAGA country. The much more banal reality is their truly insufferable narcissism, made even worse by the constant need to be victims, drove away everyone around them in every aspect of life, leaving them nothing to do but leave. It was a win-win for everyone. They can now prance around not-at-all-crime-ridden Chicago while pretending to be Vanilla Nelson and Winnie, and everyone in Tennessee can breathe a sigh of relief that they’re finally gone.

$7.25 an hour is about $14,000 a year. No one can survive on that. People can barely survive on double that. We raised the minimum wage in Illinois. It's long overdue everywhere else.

This afternoon's fatal shooting in the side parking lot of Walgreens in Melrose appears to involve an attempted carjacking. A 44-year-old food delivery driver had just picked up an order from a restaurant next door & had walked back to his black Dodge when he said he was confronted by a gunman who demanded his car. The driver retrieved his own pistol. The driver said he was shot in the leg before he fired on the suspect, killing him. The driver is hospitalized for treatnent of the leg wound. Investigation continuing.