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The sign, which reads "All People Are Welcome," has stood at the I-90 entrance since 2018, but the debate over its message became a center topic when Ald. Chad Tuneberg raised concerns during a previous meeting. “People automatically think that the sign is talking about immigration. It’s not,” he said.
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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There are no Republicans running in the primary in Rockford.
https://www.rrstar.com/story/news/local/2025/02/19/meet-the-four-democrats-who-want-to-represent-rockfords-west-side/78295705007/
They must be considered toxic and unelectable there. Otherwise that wouldn’t be the case.
The article says the welcoming sign is for people moving to Rockford, visitors, and those passing through. Rockford’s PTs don’t welcome people to move there; it deters them from doing so.
An ugly, stupid, virtue-signaling, taxpayer-money-wasting sign!