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San Francisco Emerges From Shadow of a Doom Loop

October 20, 2025 at 7:39 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“San Francisco is back. Or at least on its way,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Crime rates have dropped to their lowest levels in decades and continue to fall, with burglaries, a particular nuisance to homeowners and tourists, down 28% this year. The homeless tent encampments that block sidewalks and bedevil retail businesses have shrunk, while foot traffic and transit ridership have risen.”

“Rents overall are up 12% year over year in the city proper, with September marking the 13th month in a row of consecutive growth, according to Apartments.com. And the hotel industry is showing signs of recovery.”

Filed Under: City Hall

The Conquest of Chicago

October 16, 2025 at 4:41 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Nick Miroff: “Every city targeted by Trump so far seems to resist in its own way. Protesters in proudly weird Portland, Oregon, have been mocking Trump’s ‘war zone’ claims by dancing in animal costumes and riding bikes buck naked.”

He continues: “In Chicago, city officials and neighborhood activist groups have been more disciplined, coordinating closely on efforts to slow ICE’s ‘Operation Midway Blitz.’ Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson are fighting the National Guard deployment in court, and Johnson has declared city property off-limits to ICE, though it’s unclear how he’ll be able to enforce the ban. When Noem tried to use the bathroom inside the Broadview municipal building earlier this month, staffers wouldn’t even open the door.”

Filed Under: City Hall

‘Chaos’ Video Isn’t Actually from Chicago

October 16, 2025 at 10:49 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The White House’s “chaos” video from Chicago “is littered with outdated footage highlighting drug busts, arrests and deportation raids in other states, including Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska,” AFP reports.

Meanwhile, several clips “that authentically showed Chicago were from January 2025 — not captured as Trump sought to deploy troops in October.”

Filed Under: City Hall


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Eric Adams Says He’s Been Offered an ‘Amazing’ Job

October 15, 2025 at 12:43 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

New York City Mayor Eric Adams shared with leaders in his administration that he’s received an “amazing” job offer for when he leaves City Hall this year, Bloomberg reports.

He said it was an opportunity “of a lifetime” second only to running the nation’s largest city.

Filed Under: City Hall

Rove Says Troop Deployments Are a ‘Loser’ for Trump

October 13, 2025 at 3:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“GOP strategist Karl Rove predicted that deploying National Guard troops to Democratic-led cities, over the objections of their respective states’ governors, will ultimately be a losing issue for President Trump,” The Hill reports.

Filed Under: City Hall, White House

Mayor Admits to Stealing Church Funds

October 9, 2025 at 8:52 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

South Lake Tahoe Mayor Tamara Wallace wrote in the Tahoe Daily Tribune that she attempted suicide because of the guilt and shame she felt from embezzling funds from a local church.  

Said Wallace: “This is the hardest thing I have ever had to do. I am publicly admitting that I took funds from the Presbyterian Church over an extended period. Because of this, on September 11, 2025, my birthday, I tried to end my life. I was so filled with guilt, shame, and grief that I experienced a mental health crisis that made suicide seem to be the best solution.”

Filed Under: City Hall

Politicians Defiant as Troops Gather Outside Chicago

October 8, 2025 at 6:42 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Local and state politicians railed Tuesday against the Trump administration’s federalization of the National Guard in Illinois as hundreds of guardsmen gathered and protesters vowed to continue to challenge their presence,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, speaking in Minneapolis, suggested that President Trump’s actions are a precursor to trying to intimidate Democratic voters ahead of next year’s midterm elections.”

Said Pritzker: “He wants us all, in big cities, to get used to the idea that it’s OK to have military on the streets. You are going to see soldiers outside your polling place. That’s going to intimidate a lot of people. And especially it’s going to intimidate people who are not Republicans.”

Filed Under: City Hall

National Guard Deployment Moves Ahead in Chicago

October 7, 2025 at 6:37 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The U.S. military could hit the streets of Chicago as early as today, after a federal judge refused to immediately block Trump’s National Guard deployment, the Chicago Tribune reports.

Filed Under: City Hall

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

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

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