Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
Audio and summary Why the Holdup Using Artificial Intelligence to Cut Illinois Government Costs? – Wirepoints
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.
Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer – Chicago’s struggling commercial real estate and more
Summary and audio linked here.
Audio and summary Illinois bill would override local law to allow homeless living in all public parks – Wirepoints
If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago Fiscal Crisis Worse Than Pre-Bankruptcy Detroit, HIV Surge and Public Health Threat From Open Borders Goes Unreported
Summary and audio linked here.
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
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.
WBEZ and Chicago Sun-Times falsely blame Texas Gov. Abbott for 2020 to 2024 surge in Chicago Latino HIV, AIDS infections – Wirepoints Quickpoint
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
With Discussion Beginning About Pension Buyout Program For Chicago, Beware of Baloney – Wirepoints
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.
Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago’s Fiscal Crisis Has Passed the Point of No Return, Bond Market Already Signaling Collapse
Full interview and summary linked here.
New IRS Migration Numbers: Illinois Taxpayers Continue to Flee With Their Income – Wirepoints
Illinois lost another 54,000 tax filers and dependents, net, according to the IRS. Since 2000, fleeing taxpayers have taken $94 billion of annual adjusted gross income with them.
Why Chicago’s new $800 million bond offering smells so fishy: Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s The Real Story
Borrowing for current and past operating expenses, blanks for use of funds and more make Chicago’s bond sale planned for next week smell mighty bad. Mark Glennon’s interview is in the first ten minutes starting here.
Wall Street Journal Citing Wirepoints: Why Johnny Can’t Read Anything Other Than Pronouns*
Citing Wirepoints research, Jason Riley makes the case that the sensible path forward in Chicago would be to change or close the schools that are underperforming, but Mayor Brandon Johnson and his fellow progressives are far more interested in targeting the selective-enrollment school model. See Riley’s column here.
Worse than worthless: Site Selection Magazine’s No. 1 ranking for Chicago – Wirepoints
It’s March, which means we are being subjected the dumbest annual study going about how well Chicago is doing.
Blue City Spending Drives ‘Unaffordability,’ Not Relief: Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on Chicago’s Morning Answer – AM560
“You didn’t have to be a wizard t.o see it,” Glennon said, recalling that warning signs were evident as far back as the early 2000s when state revenues faltered after the tech bubble burst. The fiscal trajectory of many major cities, he said, has long reflected a pattern of expanding government commitments without sustainable funding models. Full interview here.
Politically assassinated judge sues Illinois Supreme Court justices – Wirepoints
Justices on Illinois’ top court ran a Star Chamber. They personally comprised a cancel mob and acted in blatant disregard of constitutional rights to due process and free speech.