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"Yes, once again, our alderpeople, who have been called the “lowest form of political life” (per Mike Royko), and whose No. 1 job is making sure the trash gets collected in their wards, are venturing into foreign policy...'The potential of making and influencing national and international policy at the local level excites progressives in particular,” wrote Karen Dolan and Emily Schwartz Greco.'"
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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Because it’s easier to virtue-signal your progressive democrat political beliefs than to address actual city governance problems.
Chicago residents and its taxpayers would be best served if NO new regulations were enacted hereon, that City Council served only to authorize contract awards for existing line-items, re-evaluate budget line-items for budget cuts, and ignored political issues altogether.
Only reason a Chicago alderperson would express a political opinion regarding issues outside of City Council’s chartered authority would be personal ambition for higher office. Sponsors of “Gaza Resolution” aren’t interested in their constituents’ interests regarding actual Chicago services.
Chicago alderman on the sorry state of the city…”look a puppy!”
Because they can’t, or won’t, clean up their own house. A politically correct distraction.
Don’t forget another group that can’t clean up their own house, but are passing resolutions and making demands about everything from the border issue to a Gaza ceasefire- teacher unions.
Once upon a time local officials busied themselves with local issues. Now they can’t solve a local issue — think crime, CPS, property tax rates but they busy themselves with foreign policy!