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“Those things house hundreds of gallons of oil,” Ford County Emergency Management Agency Coordinator Terry Whitebird said. “At this point there’s no definite amount of how much was spilled." The Ford County Board recently adopted an updated, more-restrictive wind turbine ordinance, only to see the Illinois General Assembly take site restrictions out of the hands of county and municipal government.
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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Ban green energy, save the planet!
Pugsley just signed a democrat bill forcing downstate to build these green boondoggles
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/pritzker-flips-on-support-of-local-control-over-wind-farm-siting-decisions/article_08b1ff70-9cfe-11ed-af6e-6373c5ff2eb9.html
/@&$! the fat man. Refuse to build these dangerous, polluting nightmares