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Months past a federal deadline, more than 90% of at-risk Chicagoans haven’t been told their drinking water could be unsafe. Of the 10 cities with the most lead pipes, only Chicago has confirmed it hasn’t finished sending out notices.
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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Lead in drinking water has been a known health risk since the late 19th century. Lead service lines have been supplying water to homes on the southeast side of Chicago for over 100 years. Nobody in officialdom made a stink about lead service lines in that neighborhood when it was overwhelmingly white working class. NOW that the neighborhood is majority minority, progressives, through their media mouthpieces, to include the the Sun-Times, say that the city has been derelict in its duty to remediate the service lines. This despite the fact that, per the Johns Hopkins study linked in the Sun-Times… Read more »
“I did that!” Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson
Not surprised. There is alot of sheet going on in this city we aren’t aware of