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Jenn Kho, the Sun-Times executive editor since 2022, will serve as interim editor-in-chief for Chicago Public Media, a new role overseeing the content produced by both the Sun-Times and WBEZ.
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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The stern rises
Rats seek refuge on different chairs
Hoping one might float
Full speed ahead on radical leftism.
yup, of whom the vast majority of their funders, subscriber & readers I’m sure are upper-income WHITE.
The profile of the Tesla protesters and rioters is over 65 (Boomers), white, and retired public employees.