Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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Fleet security company CargoNet said Illinois, California and Texas account for over 60 percent of the heists during the first quarter of this year. “Last year, I thought it was the worst it was going to get,” said Mike Kucharski, of of JKC Trucking in Chicago. “Cargo theft was up 57 percent in the fourth quarter, and now during the first quarter they’re reporting it's up another 46 percent. It’s crazy.”
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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.
De facto reparations. Move along everyone.
Bandits stealing cargo in transit- another symptom of descent into third-world status.
Spot on PP. When Old Joe was working shipments to and from Mexico often never arrived.
Our phrase was “Lost in Transit.” I’ve heard of gangs south of the border stealing shipments of perfectly good parts and taking them to the scrap yards down there.