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ICE Agents Handcuffed Chicago Alderperson

October 3, 2025 at 5:52 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes was hancuffed by federal immigration agents while she was questioning them why they were at a local medical center, WLS reports.

Filed Under: City Hall

New York City Sees Record Low Crime

October 2, 2025 at 6:41 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“As President Donald Trump calls for military intervention in cities across the nation, gun violence and major crime are at a record low in America’s largest city, the New York Police Department announced Wednesday,” ABC News reports.

“There were fewer shootings in NYC during the first nine months of the year than in the same time period of any prior year.”

“The record-low number of shootings coincided with a broader drop in crime, including in the subways.”

Filed Under: City Hall, Crime and Punishment

The Rise and Fall of Eric Adams

September 29, 2025 at 6:35 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

New York Times: “Questions arose early on about his character, job performance and decision-making. He was caught lying about what he ate and with whom he owned real estate. And investigations plagued his administration, finally landing at the mayor’s door.”

Filed Under: City Hall


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There Will Never Be Another Eric Adams

September 28, 2025 at 6:20 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

New York Times: “In many ways, Mr. Adams’s choice to end his flailing re-election campaign was the most conventional thing he had done in some time. He was acceding, for once, to the laws of political gravity as he weighed how best to position himself for a post-mayoral future.”

“That set of options, like much of his last year, is already shadowed by the more brazen gambit he has long appeared to embrace amid federal corruption charges and the wholesale collapse of his inner circle: becoming a MAGA-amenable mayor of America’s signature big blue city and seeing where that might take him.”

Filed Under: City Hall

Trump Deploys Troops to Portland

September 27, 2025 at 11:47 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he will send troops to Portland, Oregon, and to immigration detention facilities around the country, authorizing ‘Full Force, if necessary’ and escalating a campaign to use the U.S. military against Americans that has little modern precedent,” the Washington Post reports.

“Portland has been a target of right-wing politicians for the way it has handled racial-justice protests as well as its homeless population, tolerating encampments in the central part of the city. But Trump will again encounter the dynamic he did when he deployed the National Guard in Los Angeles — a military deployment in a state run by a Democratic governor who objects to the decision and will have grounds to fight it in court.”

Filed Under: City Hall, White House

Trump Threatens to Declare ‘National Emergency’ in D.C.

September 15, 2025 at 7:58 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President Trump threatened to declare a “national emergency” and “federalize” Washington, D.C., in an escalating standoff with Mayor Muriel Bowser after she announced the city’s police would not cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Filed Under: City Hall

Pentagon Plans to Send 1,000 Troops to Louisiana

September 13, 2025 at 11:55 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The Trump administration has drafted a proposal to activate 1,000 Louisiana National Guard troops to serve in a law enforcement mission focused on the state’s ‘urban centers,’ according to Pentagon planning documents outlining what would be a significant expansion of the military’s role in policing American citizens,” the Washington Post reports.

Filed Under: City Hall

Trump Declares War on Chicago

September 7, 2025 at 1:22 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President Trump posted a meme that reimagined Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 Vietnam War dystopia “Apocalypse Now.”

In the poster military helicopters fly over the Chicago skyline while there’s a raging explosion.

And the caption from Trump: “I love the smell of deportations in the morning.”

Associated Press: Trump threatens Chicago with apocalyptic force and Pritzker calls him a “wannabe dictator.”

Filed Under: City Hall, White House

D.C. Attorney General Sues Over National Guard Troops

September 4, 2025 at 11:32 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The District of Columbia’s attorney general said that he was suing to end the deployment of the National Guard in Washington, two days after a federal judge ruled the Trump administration’s use of troops in Los Angeles had been unlawful,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

Filed Under: City Hall

Eric Adams Denies Rumors He Could Take Job with Trump

September 4, 2025 at 8:30 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Eric Adams is denying rumors he would abandon his reelection campaign for mayor of New York City if offered a job with the Trump administration, CNN reports.

Filed Under: City Hall

Trump Backs Off on Sending Troops to Chicago

September 4, 2025 at 6:43 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he may deploy federal troops to New Orleans next, not Chicago, and is waiting for governors to ask for help — a shift in his rhetoric about moving into major U.S. cities uninvited,” Politico reports.

Said Trump: “We are making a determination now: Do we go to Chicago? Or do we go to a place like New Orleans where we have a great governor, Jeff Landry, who wants us to come in and straighten out a very nice section of this country that has become quite – quite tough, quite bad?”

Filed Under: City Hall

House GOP Will Try to Restrict Home Rule in D.C.

September 3, 2025 at 10:11 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“House Republicans are weighing a slate of legislation that would overhaul criminal justice policies in D.C. and further restrict home rule — including a proposal that would remove the city’s locally elected attorney general and replace him with a presidential appointee,” the Washington Post reports.

Filed Under: City Hall

D.C. Mayor Welcomes Federal Troops Indefinitely

September 2, 2025 at 4:16 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) on Tuesday welcomed federal law enforcement officials to stay in D.C. indefinitely, a powerful indication of her willingness to cooperate with President Donald Trump’s effort to take over public safety in the capital city,” the Washington Post reports.

“By law, Trump’s federalization of the D.C. police force lasts 30 days and is set to expire next week. Bowser’s announcement may quell any showdown over what happens after that deadline passes by authorizing continued cooperation between the city and federal authorities.”

Filed Under: City Hall

Trump Says He’s Sending Troops to Chicago and Baltimore

September 2, 2025 at 3:44 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President Trump said Tuesday that he will direct federal law enforcement intervention to Chicago and Baltimore, despite local officials in both places opposing such moves, the AP reports.

Said Trump: “We’re going in. I didn’t say when.”

New York Times: Los Angeles ruling complicates Trump’s threats to send troops to more cities.

Filed Under: City Hall

Democratic Mayors Convene After Trump’s Threats

August 27, 2025 at 5:37 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“As President Trump threatens more federal incursions into American cities in the name of fighting crime, a group of Democratic mayors huddled on a private strategy call on Wednesday to discuss their plans to fight back,” the New York Times reports.

“The call, hosted by the Democratic Mayors Association, represented a new effort from Democratic officials to wrest the narrative from Republicans on public safety, an issue that Mr. Trump has effectively used as a cudgel. It was also an attempt to coordinate on messaging as national Democrats have strained to mount sustained and unified opposition to the Trump administration.”

“During the call, the mayors in attendance discussed what they saw as an urgent need for Democrats to define themselves as strong stewards of public safety — before Republicans brand them first ahead of pivotal elections.”

Filed Under: City Hall

Majority Opposes Deploying National Guard To D.C.

August 27, 2025 at 2:30 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new Quinnipiac poll finds voters oppose the move to send National Guard troops to Washington D.C. in an effort to reduce crime by 56% to 41%.

Overall, President Trump’s approval rate is a dismal 37% to 55%.

Filed Under: City Hall, Crime and Punishment

Americans Don’t Like Troops in D.C.

August 27, 2025 at 6:45 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new Reuters/Ipsos poll finds just 38% of Americans support President Trump’s use of troops to police Washington, D.C.

Filed Under: City Hall

Quote of the Day

August 26, 2025 at 6:48 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“We go in, we will solve Chicago within one week, maybe less. But within one week, we’ll have no crime in Chicago, like no crime in D.C.”

— President Trump, quoted by Politico.

Filed Under: City Hall, Crime and Punishment

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