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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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Vote against Prickster, pay a punishing price. This man is a tyrant.
Unfortunately, whichever gubernatorial candidate wears the D endorsement in Illinois will win, so it remains to be seen whether there will be any meaningful choice to make. My guess is that there will not be. Is it worth considering registering as democrat just to sway the primaries next year?