Good morning, Chicago. I got coffee with a friend on Sunday who is a former Indiana resident like I am. We both admitted to being surprised at the independence that emerged from the Indiana Senate last week when it voted down a mid-decade redistricting proposal, despite pressure from President Donald Trump.

As the Tribune Editorial Board notes today, Republican lawmakers in Indianapolis “didn’t like being used as pawns, especially since it would’ve meant betraying their constituents and principles.”

In its other editorial, the board reacts to the horrific violence that occurred this past weekend — the mass shooting at Brown University and the massacre of celebrants during a Hanukkah event in Australia. (Our readers also offer thoughts in letters to the editor.) The board laments that “our society has lost its sensitivity to death.”

For her part, Ald. Debra Silverstein pleads with the city in an op-ed to take concrete actions in combating anti-Jewish hatred as the number of antisemitic incidents rises in Chicago.

In other commentary, investment management professional Stuart Loren argues that Mayor Brandon Johnson’s solutions for Chicago’s fiscal woes will only hurt our economy further. And foreign affairs columnist Daniel DePetris explains why the Trump administration’s actions in the Caribbean are tantamount to war.

Break out the Bermuda shorts. The temperatures are going to rise starting today. What a relief. See you tomorrow.

— Colleen Kujawa, opinion editor

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