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"Of course we don't condone that behavior. That's the first thing I said," Brandon Johnson told reporters, asking if anyone had "more incentive for a safer Chicago" than someone raising a family in Austin. "You can make sure that we eradicate the root causes that lead to violence, and we also can make sure that there's support on the front line to make sure that we're preventing violence..."
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Audio and summary Illinois bill would override local law to allow homeless living in all public parks – Wirepoints
April 14, 2026
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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.
Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago Fiscal Crisis Worse Than Pre-Bankruptcy Detroit, HIV Surge and Public Health Threat From Open Borders Goes Unreported
April 10, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades
April 3, 2026
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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.
WBEZ and Chicago Sun-Times falsely blame Texas Gov. Abbott for 2020 to 2024 surge in Chicago Latino HIV, AIDS infections – Wirepoints Quickpoint
March 31, 2026
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Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
He talks about “root causes” like there’s some easy, magic solution. There isn’t. You can’t fix habitually violent individuals. Mental health issues are incredibly difficult to address. This man is a snake oil salesman, and he has no solutions. The media has no integrity whatsoever. If you want to make a difference, stop watching the local news stations. Don’t read the local newspapers. They are part of the charade and don’t care about you. Drive them out of business.
He won’t criticize people with the same color skin as him. Tribalism at its worst.
I’ll bet we’ll still be listening to Johnson blather and harrumph about how he’s going to get those long shuttered mental health clinics open ‘sometime soon’ two or three years from now. In terms of actually getting things done – doors open, lights on, laws passed, taxes collected, “teen jobs” created – I don’t think Johnson et al could organize a successful pissing contest in a brewery. They don’t know or have influence with the right people, they’re inexperienced themselves, and they just don’t know how things actually ‘work’ in so much of the world that they believe is wrong,… Read more »