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.
I’m glad that these school districts have courageously defied Pritzker’s tyrannical mask mandate. People should always be able to choose for themselves whether they want to wear a mask. Mask wearing should never be mandated. All schools in Illinois should follow them by not enforcing the mask mandate and seeking accreditation elsewhere if the state retaliates by revoking state recognition. We can’t allow mandatory mask wearing to be a requirement to attending school or working in schools in Illinois. School boards need to recognize that they only answer to the voters of their district if they are public. If they… Read more »