Let’s see, there’s a war on drugs and a big campaign against guns . . . Number of vehicles city police report impounding during 1996 as part of weapons arrests: 1,200. As part of narcotics arrests: 1,250. As part of prostitution arrests: 1,500.
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Sloshed. According to a recent Woodstock Institute report, the number of liquor stores per 100,000 residents in Cook County zip code areas with median incomes under $30,000 a year: 16. In zip code areas with median incomes over $38,000: 7.
Freedom’s just another word for no Chiclets left to lose. “Chewing gum is illegal in Singapore, the country rated first by the editors of the Wall Street Journal in their Index of Economic Freedom,” reports the Progressive Review On-Line Report (January 31). “If you get caught ordering gum by mail order you can be fined $6,000.”
