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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.
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.
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So many red flags with this typical big brother government overreach Marxist nonsense. Let’s start with it being on North LSD and not South LSD. Gee, what are they going to do if the study doesn’t show it isn’t the rich people causing the accidents? Why aren’t they looking at the four most dangerous intersections in the city of Shitcago? E 79th St & S Stony Island Ave. E 95th St & S Stony Island Ave. W Garfield Blvd & S Wentworth Ave. W Garfield Blvd & S Wells St. I have my suspicions why. Why not look into using… Read more »
Revenue grab by BJ. Nothing more. Anything else is “urinating” on my head and saying that it’s raining.
Hmm.. will the cameras likewise be deployed in communities formerly served by ShotSpotter? Probably not as they captured the underserved, and we can’t have that.