Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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Aldermen Angela Clay, Timmy Knudsen, Bennett Lawson and Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth: "We oppose all versions of the proposal that fail to incorporate mass transit elements such as buses or light rail. We want modern solutions that prioritize non-car travel and put pedestrians, cyclists, public transit users, recreation, green space, commercial growth and property values ahead of cars."
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Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades
April 3, 2026
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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.
The only thing that America hating progressives do is come up with idiotic ideas that benefit only a tiny fraction of the people massively inconvenience everyone else and and that someone else should pay for.
Let’s get the increasing numbers of bicycling commuters in this discussion!
Manaa-Hoppenworth’s political correctness is exhausting. Hopefully she’s a one-term alderman, because her constant woke bleating is polluting our air.
“ We also want space for the homeless to live adjacent to the streets for them to ply their trade ( begging) and free soft serve ice cream machines and soda dispensing drinking fountains on every corner, and, and,and… “. These aldercreatures truly live a different perception of reality than most of us.
Just ask that group of dazzling urbanites what department of CHICAGO finances do
We send the bill to, want to make sure the
Fine citizens of Chicago pay the bills for all this stuff.
Yes, it is called communism