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Monday, the city moved forward with 95 separate cases filed against multiple bus companies that violated the city's "rogue bus" ordinance. The attorney for the bus companies said they're suing the city in federal court, claiming the ordinance violates the U.S. Constitution and state constitution.
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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How about putting those buses on a southward heading highway and take them back to where they came from?
I fully expect the city to start buying the illegals ice skates and cross country skis so that they can enjoy the Chicago Winter wonderland!
First it was “new arrivals,” now it’s “landing zones.”
Reminds me of the terminology used by a cowering population in a “invasion from outer space” movie genre.
Language has power.
Indeed … indeed.
CTA can claim the sheltering migrants as “mass transit customers”, improve their ridership statistics. “WIn-win” for BJ administration, because CTA is otherwise miserably failing.
Hmm, better run this by John Jerry. Those busses will contribute to global warming.
Hey, I just thought of a solution. If you ship them all back where they came from they won’t be cold. Brandon, if you’re in need of anymore managerial help just contact Wirepoints.
Obviously it’s become to politically embarrassing for JB & CTU/Brandon to shelter migrants at police stations so now they’re being sheltered in ”warming busses”…….meanwhile, mountains of available space at empty or fractionally used CPS schools.
And the teachers can start to teach them English and civics so that they can make an informed vote when they , and they will, vote in our national elections.