Editorial: The catastrophe at the Travis Scott concert must serve as wake-up call

There is still much to learn about the horrific events Friday night at the Astroworld festival in Houston, which resulted in at least eight deaths (including two college students from Naperville and teens as young as 14 years old), along with hundreds of injuries. But let’s all be clear about one thing: The continuation of the Travis Scott concert for a prolonged period after it became clear some of the young people in the audience were being crushed was unforgivable. Precisely who was to blame for that decision, and when and to what degree the artist on stage could have known what was transpi…

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