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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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The undercover officers have been working on their costumes for this freak show for months.
OOPS…!!! 1 arrested as fights break out in late-night Boystown crowd June 24, 2023 7:25 PM https://cwbchicago.com/2023/06/one-arrest-boystown-pride-pregame-chicago.html CHICAGO — Pride Parade weekend got off to a raucous start in Boystown overnight, with widespread fights reported as hundreds of revelers gathered in and on Halsted Street early Saturday. One man was arrested and charged with a felony for allegedly battering a cop who was trying to break up a fight. Crowds grew through the night, with celebrants dancing and twerking on the Boystown strip… Officers at the scene reported “hundreds of people” lining both sides of Halsted Street near Roscoe Street.… Read more »
The sick groomer freaks will bring their children to this event.
We have very little choice but to look away and hope for some sanity before we have a generation of even more confused and screwed up people.
There are sufficient cops to staff Pride Parade, but none were available for Lincoln Park mass-shooting?
My apologies to the officers stuck with these assignments.
Stay safe, officers!