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Raoul, as part of a coalition of 21 attorneys general, is suing the Trump administration to stop the dismantling of three federal agencies that provide services and funding supporting public libraries and museums, workers and minority-owned businesses nationwide.
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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Oh, look. Kwame’s filing another one of those ‘work(s) of his life’ politically motivated lawsuits at taxpayers’ expense.
This should be regarded as a criminal misuse of public funds. Kwame is shameless in his quest to waste taxpayer dollars propping up the Democrat Party.
Worse. These costly suits will fail, so it is money for nothing.
I must be old. I can remember when the library was a nice, quiet place to read a book or check one out and leave. Now we have activist librarians , pervs tying up computers, children’s play areas, cafes and homeless people sleeping everywhere or in the washrooms cleaning themselves off or getting their daily fix .