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The Austin Safety Action Plan Safe Zone, known as the ASAP Safe Zone, is the city’s first official safe zone, or designated neutral ground for feuding teen groups, organizers said. The area — between Lake and Ohio streets and Waller and Parkside avenues — has been established as a safe zone since 2021, offering year-round programs dedicated to violence prevention and career development.
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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Golly. That official designation will most certainly work. All that Democrats AKA Communists know how to do is to virtue signal.
Kind of sad when the government has to designate safe zones for the safety of folks from their fellow community members.