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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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Mt Prospect PD should pull all of its officers out of the schools — and let these woke nazi school bureaucrats deal with their own problems.
I wonder if Prospect High School (District 214) would have had the Mt Prospect cop removed if she appeared arguing the other side on CNN. My gut says she would have been celebrated.
Arl Hts, the main anchor town underlying all of Dist 214, has gone almost as solidly blue as the north shore, but for the old timers who vote Republican every election since the Korean War that keeps it from being like the North Shore or Inner City. They say it’s about the attention buts really about disagreeing with police. Some of the other 214 towns are slightly less blue but the NW suburbs have changed an awful lot since Phil Crane represented the area until 2004; and by then, it became too blue to save. The red areas of IL… Read more »