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The Weekend Desk ReportFor completists, there was no column on Friday. "Vic Mensa is making good out of a bad situation," Footwear News reports. "The Chicago rapper and his SaveMoneySaveLife foundation have announced that they plan to hold an event at the same location where a controversial sting operation took place earlier this month. Mensa and his charity pledge to give away thousands of free tennis shoes to local Chicago children in need. "A sting operation involving a 'bait truck' full of Nike sneakers parked in a poor, predominantly black Chicago neighborhood had sparked outrage this month after a video circulated online of police arguing with local residents who claimed that the truck was a 'trap' for kids playing basketball at a nearby court. Eventually, Norfolk Southern Railway, which orchestrated the operation in response to a series of cargo thefts in the area, owned up to the deed and apologized to the community for stoking distrust between locals and law enforcement." East Chicago Agony "And some were equally perplexed as to why it took the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry - an advisory agency for the Environmental Protection Agency - two years to release its first in a series of reports about children's blood lead results in the Superfund site." - See also from WBEZ: What Happened To The East Chicago Residents Forced Out By Pollution? - Previously in East Chicago: * Flawed CDC Report Left East Chicago Children Vulnerable To Lead Poisoning. * East Chicago Residents Screwed (Again) Over Lead And Arsenic. * Item: East Chicago Blues, Pt. 1,000,000,000. It's Never Too Late
- New on the Beachwood . . . Our Aretha "One thing that bothers me is when people call me a great natural singer. I studied music. I am a trained musician and I know every note that I hit." * Jake Tapper's Flawed 'Happy Fact Check Friday' On Medicare For All * Manafort Trial Reveals Rahm's Slush Fund TIF Game * Trying To Prove God's Existence * 'Complete Joke' | Democrats Ripped for Totally Failing to Grill FCC Chair Ajit Pai Over Net Neutrality Cyberattack Lies * The Week In Chicago Rock * The Beachwood Radio Sports Hour #214 - Weekend ChicagoReddit I was up early enough to see them refilling the lake from r/chicago - Weekend Chicago Gram - Weekend ChicagoTube Al Pacino On Stage In Los Angeles At The Greek Theater With Chicago Not Knowing The Words To "25 Or 6 To 4." But it could've been for a movie, I'm not sure, and this could've been in 2014, though it was just uploaded by this particular account on Saturday. But still, know the words, dude. - Weekend BeachBook Satanic Temple Unveils Baphomet Statue At Arkansas Capitol. * How People Become Part Of A NASCAR Pit Crew. * Huntress Singer Jill Janus Dies By Suicide. - Weekend TweetWood
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