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Our Morning Roundup: Yvette Alexander Knows Almost Nothing About Gas Station Profit Margins Edition
Good morning, dear City Desk readers, and welcome to an especially incensed edition of Freedom Friday!
You know what's got my goat this morning? Ward 7 Councilmember Yvette Alexander's horrendous crusade against single cigar sales. The kids use them to smoke the marijuana, sure. But the kids will smoke out of anything! The cigarette foil, the hollowed-out apples, the dented cans, the Sobe bottles, the garden hoses, the seasonal squash, the hollowed-out hot dogs, the pens, and even the ground! And you know what? A 14-year-old who can score weed and a single cigar knows how to make things happen. Smoking out of the ground will be a cakewalk for these kids!
And the worst thing about Alexander's crusade--the worst!--isn't her nanny instincts, but this horrible, off-the-cuff lie:
