Wirepoints’ data featured heavily in John Kass’ latest article on the ongoing failures of Mayor Brandon Johnson. Kass says the mayor is failing on everything from crime, to education, to jobs and more.
Read “Chicago Trembles at the Curses of Mayor Johnson” HERE
“More than 80 percent minority kids graduate from CPS, but only about 15 percent can read at grade level,” said Ted Dabrowski on this week’s Chicago Way podcast. “So, they’ve moved through the system never able to really read, yet they’ll graduate them anyway,” Dabrowski said during the podcast, “and that’s the lie of the system, that’s the hypocrisy of the system, and that’s the racism of the system. Just move ‘em on, move ‘em up, get ‘em out.”
Read more from Wirepoints:
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- No ShotSpotter and no cash bail in Chicago is a big mistake. 8 reasons why.
- Chicago Public Schools is in dire financial straits, yet Chicago Teachers Union blocks closing of near-empty, failing schools.
- It’s not racist to call Chicago the nation’s murder capital. The Chicago Sun-Times has 617 reasons to call it that.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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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.
The situation is not reversible until black and Hispanic voters realize how badly they have been duped by the Democrats for decades. And I don’t think that realization is anywhere in the near future. When the voters continue to cast the majority of votes for candidates simply because of color, they don’t get the benefit of good policies and efficient leaders. The last two election cycles in Illinois and Chicago demonstrate quite conclusively that the same old bias for candidates of their own color leads voters to go with the candidate who looks like them no matter the level of… Read more »
“The situation is not reversible until black and Hispanic voters realize how badly they have been duped by the Democrats for decades. And I don’t think that realization is anywhere in the near future.”
If national polls showing that Black and Hispanic support for the Harris/Walz ticket, and for the Democratic party in general, is WAY down from what it was in the Obama era, that “realization” may be closer than you think. Black men in particular are far more favorable to Trump than one would expect.
That sounds kind of raggedy, and Brandon don’t do raggedy. What is missing from most of these conversations is the fact the leaders send their kids to private schools.
The democrats have been a curse on Illinois and Chicago as far back as I can remember. They have preyed on the ethnic identities and lack of education of the people forever. They have stolen everything they can get their hands on with nothing but open distain for their constituents. In short, they are a cancer that has become untreatable. The cancer now runs through the entire body of the state. The only hope for Illinois and Chicago is divine intervention. However, Illinois and Chicago has turned its back on God. So now there is nothing left for the state… Read more »
Kass captured my feelings exactly. Chicago didn’t want a white mayor, even though he was clearly the best candidate. Now this woke city, full of CPS graduates unprepared for the job market (or life), is about to discover the high cost of their ignorance and racism. It’s going to get ugly, but they did it to themselves.
But in the end, the people of Illinois will end up having to bail them out.
Lawrence, Illinois can’t bail out Chicago. Illinois is in terrible financial shape. This is a different situation than when Michigan helped bail out Detroit.
Although not the slick, fast talking, used car salesman type that people seem to gravitate towards these days, I think Willie Wilson would, with the right assistance, been a far better mayor than the last three.
As the old saying states, the chickens come home to roost.