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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.
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.
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Preckwinkle could run a XoBiDen campaign, sit in her basement and spend very little cash. As a democrap there is a 99.9% chance she will win in a landslide.
She’s 75 years old and turns 76 in March. She’ll be 79 years old when finishes this term. She’s of the age where she gets up at 6 am, plays some bingo, takes a mid-afternoon nap, and then goes to bed by 8 pm after watching CSI. She is your grandmother’s age. But she’s in charge of the county finances. She’s in charge of the county’s political decisions. No real candidate dare challenger her. And the Democrats in IL will easily, handily elect her again. And if Bob Fioretti gets too many votes, the machine will crank up fake votes… Read more »