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“Every other day,” Pastor Donovan Price says of the crime scenes he visits. “I’m kind of almost getting used to some of the stuff that I would not like to get used to.” He can’t make it to every shooting. No one can. He has to choose, just like anyone, and prioritizes homicides and kids and mass shootings because the need is greater there, much as you can quantify the need for faith or prioritize. But the point is he has to triage, anyone near violence in this city has to triage, because there’s so much.
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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I’ve found thoughts and prayers to be quite effective.