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							<title><![CDATA[Two Cities, Two Crime Strategies: What I Learned Living in Both]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/04/two_cities_two_crime_strategies_what_i_learned_living_in_both_153595.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Don Tracy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve watched two American cities make opposite choices about the same problem.
As a young man, I worked in Memphis: first as a traveling salesman, then as a law student, and finally as an attorney at a Memphis law firm. As an associate lawyer, I dreamed of escaping the daily grind...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Inequity of Public Education in Chicago]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/07/03/the_inequity_of_public_education_in_chicago_149444.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Don Tracy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Shame on Mayor Brandon Johnson, Barack and Michelle Obama, Governor Pritzker, Speaker Welch, and every other Illinois Democrat who tolerates the appalling failure of Chicago'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s schools while also decrying the Supreme Court'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s decision to end affirmative action at elite...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Kind of State Does Illinois Want To Be?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/10/13/what_kind_of_state_does_illinois_want_to_be_148316.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Don Tracy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Illinois is more than its elected officials. Each of us adds something to our community, town, state, and nation. As the clumsy angel Clarence told George Bailey in the Capra classic '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a Wonderful Life,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Strange, isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t it? Each man'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s life touches so...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Something Stinks in the Illinois Governor's Office]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/01/29/something_stinks_in_the_illinois_governors_office_147110.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Don Tracy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The more we learn about the Jenny Thornley affair, the more it appears that senior members of the Pritzker administration, including potentially the governor and his wife, may have facilitated a fraud on the state by a now-indicted former campaign aide to enrich her and then obstructed...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Illinois Democrats Launch a Cultural Revolution]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/06/14/illinois_democrats_launch_a_cultural_revolution.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Don Tracy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In these head-spinning times, first principles about government are all in play: what it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s for, and how it relates to the people.
Not long ago, Democrat and Republican politicians and activists differed over priorities: More guns or more butter?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  Today, the parties differ more...]]></description>
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