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Researchers with the National Restaurant Association say employment is still 1.3 million jobs below where it was pre-pandemic, and they don’t expect improvements until well into 2022.
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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.
Hmmm, I can work a shty job, or get paid to stay home. I’ll take door 2.
And yet the WSJ tries to lie to us all with d&mn statistics, saying there is no difference in employment in PUA states and non-PUA states.
That WSJ article was weird. The headline said ending extended benefits had no effect, but the article does not at all say that. Nobody claims that unemployment benefits are the only or even the “key reason” employment is lagging, which is the phrase used in the article. It’s a significant factor, the the balance of the article says so.
Like I said before, everything right now is fake and untrue. It’s really weird because I’ve followed news basically my entire life, from a little child watching 60 minutes, when it at least tried to present a center of left point of view, and reading Human Events my father left around for my center of right points of view. These days though, everything on the left, center and even most of the right is fake and full of lies. Its hard to believe anything they print anymore. They don’t even call it lying now in journalism, they call it ‘framing’… Read more »
When will the “Great Resignation” happen to politicians? The sooner the better.