Editorial: Remap: What we’re getting versus what we could have had – Champaign News-Gazette*

"In Illinois, the district boundaries are fashioned for the politicians, not for the voters...It’s more than 330 miles by car from Scioto Mills to Oil Grove, both of which are in the proposed 15th District...But how does it help the voters of that enormous district if they want to drive to their congressman’s office, if they want their congressman to visit them?"

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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

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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