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"Every mayoral candidate in the 2027 race — anyone who wants to win, anyway — will be able to say they’re anti-Trump. But if Johnson can point to specific policy wins, that would give him a much-needed edge."
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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It might be popular but Chicago needs all the help it can get.
It’s this kind of inbred gobblygook media that passes as informed thought that makes Chicago hopelessness permanent. But that’s really the goal of Democrats – maintain their sordid control by always looking for an outsider to blame.
From what we’ve seen so far of BJ’s performance as a mayor, it’s incomprehensible to think he’d have any chance of a second term. Wait, scratch that; it’s Chicago.
Sure. Mayor Cliff Notes can go from 7% approval to 7.01% approval. Edward McClelland, lib at Chicago Magazine pretending to be a journalist, beclowns his entire family with his latest adolescently desperate love letter to Mayor Notes. What’s next? Sneaking to Mayor Notes bedroom window for some late-night petting?
The Chicago media is useless.
It truly is an awful column in so many ways. We try to pick the best columns on both the left and the right. This one probably should not have made the cut.
Nope. And the part pinhead pinhead doesn’t get , it’s costing the city federal funds
Interesting picture and choice of expressions. Trump is trying to get things done…the Pinhead is all about theatre. What a waste of time Jumbo JB and the Pinhead is for the people of Illinois. Nothing but theatre.
Of course the far left lunatics, at the fake news fraud Chicago Magazine, cheer on the policies that are destroying Chicago. Same creeps who blamed a high ranking cop for his own murder in the Loop.
Can’t wait until that Marxist rag goes out of business.
No.