Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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"I cannot imagine anyone actually cheering for Illinois. We’re just not that way here. Pessimism is in our collective bones, partly because it has been beaten into our beings for so many years by opinion leaders, and partly because, well, we do indeed suck at so many things."
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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
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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
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.
Miller – biggest political hack in my lifetime.
Please reveal your sources of income Miller.
You are irrelevant. Meaningless, peddling nonsense.
Go away Rich. Please just go away.
I often wonder if he traded anything, other than his soul, for access.
People actually pay Rich Miller to write this silly meaningless nonsense?
First, Rauner got blamed when the population was allegedly declining during his tenure. Then when the initial 2020 census numbers came in last year and showed population loss was negligible, they were quick to write off the entire population decline story as if it was no big deal. Now it’s reported that the population went up, they are all jumping to take credit for a negligible increase of a number they had previously written off as no big deal, with zero acknowledgement that their claim against Rauner was apparently fraudulent. As if their mere presence was the cause for an… Read more »
This column is mostly nonsense. We will be writing more on this soon.
Don’t look too hard Mr. Miller, because the facts might come back into play. Facts like the millions Pritzker pumped into a campaign to count every single body in the 2020 census. I’m sure we all remember those commercials running non stop. There was no such effort in 2010, making any comparison between the two highly suspect. Mr. Miller knows this of course (he isn’t as dim as that picture at the bottom of the article suggests). Or facts from the IRS showing declines in the filings of income tax returns (why doesn’t the Illinois Dept. of Revenue show us… Read more »
Judging by the down-votes it is clear that Rich Miller reads Wirepoints and desperately wants to sit at the cool smart kids table in the cafeteria. Illinois is going to hell in a hand basket and Miller is part of the problem but he dreams of being on the right side of sanity. Plus with Mike Madigan gone he is adrift without a compass.
Here’s Rich again, letting us know that really it’s just about messaging.