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The 60-page lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., accused President Donald Trump of playing politics with Americans’ health by refusing to open a special enrollment session for the Affordable Care Act despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Chicago and other cities have had to pick up the slack by providing uncompensated care to uninsured residents, the suit alleged.
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Audio and summary Illinois bill would override local law to allow homeless living in all public parks – Wirepoints
April 14, 2026
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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.
Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago Fiscal Crisis Worse Than Pre-Bankruptcy Detroit, HIV Surge and Public Health Threat From Open Borders Goes Unreported
April 10, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades
April 3, 2026
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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.
WBEZ and Chicago Sun-Times falsely blame Texas Gov. Abbott for 2020 to 2024 surge in Chicago Latino HIV, AIDS infections – Wirepoints Quickpoint
March 31, 2026
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Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
LL is whining because “Chicago and other cities have had to pick up the slack by providing uncompensated care to uninsured residents…” LL and Pritzker go off the rails locking down Illinois for months screaming hair-on-fire its gonna be 1918 influenza epidemic all over again. Businesses lay off employees and some are forced close down for good. Others trying to keep their heads above water want to open up and are fighting these 2 stooges while protesting rioters and looters are excused from the ‘pandemic’ to go and play burning down businesses (It’s the police fault). Congratulations TDS… Read more »
“Congratulations TDS Larry and Moe, you’ve created a NINJA population now dependent on handouts from the state”
That’s a feature, not a bug. They’ll always vote Democrat, and Republicans are the boogeyman who will cut their benefits.
(Also I like the NINJA No Income No Job or Assets reference)
Let me get this right: Lightfoot is complaining about the costs of providing care to uninsured residents yet……Chicago insists on providing free care, free food, free housing and other goodies to criminal illegal immigrants? Lightfoot has a perverted set of priorities and clearly doesn’t give a fig about the taxpayers except as a source of revenue for her give-away plans.
As I understand the abstract; people failed to do what ANY ADULT SHOULD DO, you know, ensure you have insurance to, again, you know, safeguard your health, without which, well, back to the adult thingy, you relegate yourself to, well, not being an adult, which is…. Oh, yes, a child. Again, maybe I misunderstand the abstract and its thesis, but to me it seems like people screwed up and LL is blaming the President for people not acting rationally, in their own self interests. Lori, you can’t create a healthy system with equality of outcomes, no matter how… Read more »