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Chicago has given up on its ash trees, but some residents are mounting a rescue effort.
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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Missing from the article: THE EMERALD ASH BORER IS NATIVE TO CHINA.
But it is racist to even mention such inconvenient facts. So an entire article about the Emerald Ash Borer and not a single mention of China….
Worried about a damn tree, mount a campaign to save are damn state fools.
Speaking of trees Check out “The Larch” from Monty Python