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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.
My mechanic is a doctor too then, he can figure out and fix anything. He makes a greater contribution to society than Jill Biden.
My husband, with doctorate in engineering physics, would be embarrassed to use the honorific “Doctor”. The attitude expressed in the Op-Ed is widely held by legitimate academics: only medical doctors use that title without risk of being ridiculed as nonsensical.
Defund the universities
It is just great to see how universities are worried about how politicians are treated. Too bad they weren’t concerned about the PRESIDENT of the United States these past four years. Don’t remember any kind of censorship going on while the media and countless professors bashed PRESIDENT Trump. Shameful.
If you go to Northwestern hospital will they treat you differently if they find out you don’t believe in all their woke policies? I think I’d be better off at University of Chicago.
Well Bill Gates thinks he is a doctor too–must be a virus that is cathing.
Harald Uhlig, Joseph Epstein, who’s next.
Too bad she’s not a real doctor. She could diagnose her husband’s dementia.
It’s very sexist.
I read the article. It’s not misogynistic. It’s snarky and points out that other than doctors, it’s basically only the ‘education’ field that uses Dr when referring to PhD’s. This is just another example of “everything we don’t agree with is racist, sexist and misogynistic”. The scumbag superintendents of my local school district use Dr. too.