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Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Just another day in the high rent district. Nothing to see here, move along.
I expect a lot of posturing, podium pounding and promises for action! And then absolutely nothing will change and more people will die. Brought to you by social justice warriors Jabba, BD Lori, Toni Taxwinkle, Lil Kim and Judge Tim.
Lori says it’s unacceptable! More police in the area?
Time to bring in the national guard…. Why is this mass shooting not front page news all over MSM? Ten people shot in the third largest city in US!
i think most know why-
People have been complaining about the McDonalds for as long as I can remember. Even in the 90s that place was attracting vagrants, wilding youths and unsavory weirdos. Tear it down already.
I just read the mcdonalds has been closed down indefinitely by the city.
The Millennium Park Curfew worked wonders last night, the action moved north. Gee, who’d have thought that would happen
Here is the fix for this problem:
Shut down
— the northbound CTA Red Line Trains, South Of The Loop
and
— the eastbound CTA Blue and Green Line Trains, West Of The Loop,
From 5 PM to 5 AM each night, Monday through Thursday
and
From 5 PM Friday night to 5 AM Monday morning.
You’re Welcome
I’m going to take a wild guess that the ilk committing these crimes originated in the areas you identified and that same ilk jumped the turnstile.
And the suspect involved are the usual suspects