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As many as 14 people gathered on a Chicago street corner were shot and injured Monday night when a car pulled up and fired randomly into the crowd, authorities said. Among the victims were three children in serious condition: an 11-year-old girl, a 13-year-old boy and a 3-year-old boy who was shot in both legs, police said.
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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Kim says unless it happens in a Catholic church it won’t be considered a mass shooting.