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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.
Foxx is smart if inept. She should be able to rely on the solid support black Democrats in Chicago should give a black machine candidate running against a maverick white candidate. Her opponent will have to get 3/4 of the remaining votes to beat her and the machine backing her. Everybody knows that Toni P has been buttering Foxx’s bread and every precinct captain seeking ( or feels he/she may need to seek) Toni’s favor will be working to get out the white and hispanic Democratic vote for her candidate. Foxx should lay low and let the machine work for… Read more »
The permanent victim class of rapists, murderers, dealers and the white dumb ass pro blm terrorists will insure a Foxx victory. It’s all Trumps fault to the illiterate dummycrat criminal lovers.
Foxx knows 2 things: she’d better not cross her master Soros, and that Chicago would vote for a pile of excrement as long it was a Democrat pile
Pat’s interviews are unwatchable. Judges are simply law students who grade their own papers. Regardless of his ethical strengths, he is used to speaking on high, not persuasively to common people.
So you support rampant crime. Typical dummycrat illiterate.