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The Obama Foundation announced plans to break ground on its Programs and Athletic Center Monday, March 11. The building will be home to a gymnasium and studios for various recreational, wellness, and community activities. Just outside of the center’s doors, community members and other visitors can expect to find play areas, walking trails and a sledding hill.
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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This project ought to be built in Marth’s Vineyard or Hawaii.
Or anywhere taxpayers will foot the bill for a” community center “ that will be teeming with unwed mothers, unattended/ unwanted children, jobless miscreants and the homeless washing their clothes in the toilets and genitalia in the sinks.
WHY IS THIS UGLY OBSTRUCTION BEING ALLOWED?
interesting with regard to Obama Cent, that the CTU/Brandon’s administration as well as “new machine”-Preckwinkle, CTU, progressives, etc who are continually spouting racial community dis-investment, etc, are currently shelving attempts to to pass “community benefits agreement” to give some protections to existing low income Black residence from being displaced by gentrification?….as there are a lot of folks angling behind the scenes to “$cash-in$” on Obama
His trusty sidekick Jarrett will made sure the end product is one fit for a pharaoh.