Aug. 29. Mayor Lightfoot’s planning a prime-time address to Chicago that evening, to spell out just how scrod Chicago’s budget is—a reported $1 billion shortfall—and how she’ll propose to fix it.
■ On CNN last night, Lightfoot called Ivanka Trump’s dog-whistle words on Twitter “dangerous.”
Why the headline on yesterday’s Chicago Public Square changed. Square reader (and publisher’s son) Joel Meyerson flagged a problem with the original heading for an item above about political and racial tension between baseball players’ wives. As he wrote: “‘Batfight’: Nice pun, though it’s still basically calling the dispute a ‘catfight,’ which trivializes (and sexualizes) legitimate disputes between women. It’s a concept that’s part of a worldview in which only men can have serious debate.”