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Lightfoot said the Chicago Monuments Commission would “provide a vehicle to address the hard truths of Chicago’s racial history” and detail how the city could “memorialize Chicago’s true and complete history.” By February 2021, the commission had finished reviewing Chicago’s more than 500 public monuments and issued an interim report that flagged 41 monuments as problematic for a variety of reasons, including the statues of four presidents: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant and William McKinley.
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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Every time I read a story like this, it reminds me that negative “approval ratings” sometimes come from people who believe we haven’t gone far enough down the crazy trail.
We live in new Michoacán, formerly known as Chicago.
LL,
We know that the CC statue is the root cause of all that ails Chicago.
The headline says Chicago’s “Racist” Monuments. “Racist” is a matter of opinion and not a fact. How can the publically funded NPR justify an opinion in a headline? 2024. NPR is gone. No more taxpayer funding od an entity that actively obstructs and sneers at the taxpayer.
PBS affiliate, actually, but your point is dead on.
WOKE NONSENSE ALERT: Failed Mayor Lightfoot’s Stupidest Idea — A Race Hustling, Marxist Cultural Death Penal — Dedicated To Destroying All Chicago Monuments That Depict America In A Positive Light