Danny Parkins, a sports radio host on AM670's The Score in Chicago, completed a 24-hour radiothon on Thursday that will benefit his community for years to come. 

The "What About Chicago?" radiothon -- a name Parkins picked to push back on a question often thrown around during partisan political arguments -- aimed to raise enough money to build a grocery store on Chicago's West Side. The area is one of many around the country described as a "food desert," where fast food restaurants and convenience stores might be found, but with limited availability of fresh, healthy foods at reasonable prices. 

The specific location benefited by the radiothon was a former liquor store, damaged during last year's protests, that had been converted into a pop-up grocery store. With help from former Chicago Bears linebacker Sam Acho and over 4,600 donors, they raised over $650,000. The funds will be used to build a permanent location for the Austin Harvest grocery store, keep it open seven days a week, and run an after-school program for area youth.

Parkins' efforts will bring long-term, significant improvement to the lives of many of his fellow Chicagoans. A wonderful reminder of the power -- and hope -- that can come from local efforts. Kudos to Parkins and his team; may they be trendsetters for many others across America.

"When you're in a hole, stop digging!" If Rudy Giuliani has ever heard this advice, he sure isn't acting like it. After a New York state appellate court suspended his law license for making "demonstrably false" statements in his effort to pursue former President Donald Trump's baseless election fraud claims, Giuliani vented his anger...by making more demonstrably false statements.

CNN legal analyst Elie Honig noted it is "very, very rare" for an attorney's license to be suspended like this, but the court did find an "imminent threat to the public" from Giuliani's "continuing pattern" of conduct, as well the high likelihood that the evidence would support permanently disbarring him.

Giuliani complained to Newsmax's Greg Kelly, again pushing unfounded conspiracy theories about the election and claiming the suspension was because he had "represented my client so effectively, they're trying to get me to shut up." (His son, Andrew Giuliani, also tweeted a rant incorrectly blaming the DOJ for his father's state law license woes.)

“All I can say is, America is not America any longer,” said Giuliani. Oh, please. He shoved his own way into the main ring of Trump's traveling legal circus, commandeering local landscaping companies and wildly misstating basic matters of fact and law, of his own free will. The ridicule and professional rebuke are well-earned.