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Student protesters linked arms in a standoff with U of C police dressed in riot gear around 5 a.m. outside the encampment, which was installed over a week ago. Cook County Sheriff's officers were also seen at the encampment.
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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Never should have happened
Why not? It’s ok to tear up parks and streets over Trump, Burn Loot & Murder in our cities over the overdose death of a career criminal, but for some reason protesting a genocidal war machine is now wrong? Wake up, NOBODY in the middle east is your friend or ally nor are their operatives in DC. I hope you come around before they feed your children to the war pigs, because that’s their plan.
Whar are you talking about?? These riots should never have happened! We need proper leadership
Proper leadership would have been to not allow the Ukraine war or Israel war to start in the first place. Proper leadership would be not sending hundreds of billions of dollars to blood thirsty regimes hell bent on territorial expansion. But here we are. Not enabling the war machine and squandering our self respect, treasure and children’s’ futures, taking care of the USA first and foremost, is the proper thing to do. The path we are on leads to destruction for everyone involved. I’m actually glad the kids are fighting back, it’s them that will be sent to the slaughterhouse… Read more »