Good morning subscribers. You’ve read my column on the disaster that is Mayor Lori Lightfoot here.

Now listen to the new edition of the Chicago Way podcast.

Here’s a window into writing a column, it begins by talking to smart people, like Chicago Inspector General Joe Ferguson. In this interview, Ferguson explains how Lightfoot used her intersectional identity politics narrative to obscure her truth: She was an insider. A Daley insider who refuses to learn from mistakes. And Chicago pays for those mistakes every day.

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