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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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Prosecutors charged Acevedo with two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of attempted first-degree murder, aggravated discharge of a firearm on school grounds, three counts of unlawful possession of a machine gun, and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon. He is also charged with misdemeanor criminal trespass to a vehicle.
16 yr old gang member kills and wounds victims outside Juarez high school. Good job JB society needs pieces of crap like this to be returned to the community.
From CWBCHICAGO.COM
So frauds who submit illegal application for mail-in ballots can sign the application, then sign the ballot and the vote will be counted?
How crazy is that? Ignore the signature on the voter role and go with the signature on the application?
They should be comparing the signature on the application with the voter roles and curtail illegal ballot requests before they make it back.
Crazy chickens are running this state!
Democrats propose laws like this so they can cheat. There’s no other reason to have a law like this other than to make it easier for Democrat to cheat. That’s why they do it.
So a19yr old can go out and shoot up a drug dealer corner in a turf war where 3 or 4 are killed and they won’t have to worry about being sent away for life. Brilliant!