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Mark joined the Shaun Thompson Show to talk about the latest developments in the Gotion controversy. Wirepoints’ new poll shows a majority of Illinoisans oppose the plan for Gotion to build a EV battery factory in Manteno, Illinois.
Wirepoints is collecting its columns relevant to Gotion here.
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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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.
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Just because EV is the way of the future, whether we like it or not and it’s reliability is questionable, doesn’t mean one has to go in business with people that have made it clear that they one day want to own us. I’m baffled as to why Chinese come to America to get an education, one that somehow eludes Americans, only to turn around and use their knowledge against us. Maybe if the generation now of college age was more concerned with useful knowledge instead of tearing down statues, rooting for Hamas and the sexuality of three year olds… Read more »
Just let the free market decide which form of transportation will be utilized, stop subsidizing EV’s and all public trains and planes
The money will just go to another state. Electric vehicles are the thing of the future, like it or not. The kids can live in the basement and get high and play video games all day long now.
This is what has been going on for years in Illinois and it is working so well.