August 16, 2021 | Wirepoints

And District 202 Superintendent Eric Witherspoon said that the concept of black lives mattering is “embedded in the mission and the goals of Evanston Township High School. We believe it, we live it, we embrace it.”

Politicians Who Claim To Be Serious About Stopping Covid Better Get Serious About The Border – Wirepoints

August 16, 2021 29 Comments

It’s long past time that the obvious questions be put to Governor JB Pritzker and other public officials who claim to be so dedicated to fighting COVID: Why aren’t you demanding that the border be enforced? Are infected immigrants being sent to Illinois? How many of Illinois’ COVID infections have been in illegal immigrants. Do you even know? Do you care?

A lot of people don’t trust the information coming from state health officials – Wirepoints joins the Scott Robbins Morning Show on 92.9 Cities Talk FM

August 16, 2021 27 Comments

Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski joins the Scott Robbins Morning Show to talk about how the Pritzker Administration and Dr. Ezike are’t telling the whole truth about the COVID numbers.

GOP state lawmakers say plan for spending $2.8 billion in federal coronavirus relief is loaded with Democratic pork – Chicago Tribune*

August 16, 2021 7 Comments

Republicans said the money was handed out with few specifics, little public scrutiny and no real opportunity for the minority party to advocate for the needs of their constituents.

The expenditures include $250,000 for Black Lives Matter of Lake County, $500,000 for Ex-Cons for Community and Social Change, and $4 million each for three commissions representing Asian, Latino and African American families. There also are millions of dollars to supplement and expand immigration integrations services.

Blame bad policy, mostly, for Illinois’ more sluggish employment recovery – Opinion – Crain’s*

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A deeper dive reveals labor force participation of Black non-Hispanic and Hispanic women without a college degree has fallen drastically. Unfortunately, bad policy could be exacerbating the problem. Illinois’ big priority is to spend $11.6 billion, more than 27 percent of the state’s budget, on public employee pensions. The result is heavy investment in past labor, with little available to invest in the future.

The strange summer land rush in Peoria’s dying south end – Washington Post

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A block that had once been home to more than 100 people was down to six who lived amid the ruins of another era. There were gaping holes in roofs and crumbling foundations. Some houses were so bad that even the squatters had quit on them, and now only raccoons and rodents sought them out for shelter.

And then, for reasons that no one in Peoria could fathom, people from all over America began snapping them up. By early summer, seven houses on this block of West Lincoln Avenue had sold to buyers from Los Angeles, San Diego, Long Island,

Chicago weekend violence: 5 killed across city, including 7-year-old girl; at least 47 shot – Fox Chicago

August 16, 2021 2 Comments