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The “South Side Home Movie Project” exhibit at the University of Chicago offers a glimpse into everyday lives of a generation of Chicagoans, plus the equipment used to produce these films.
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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Sounds like a lovely project. Will any of the social justice warriors stop to wonder how black families were doing well enough in those years to afford home movie cameras? And filmed their vibrant community life?
It was before government social programs destroyed the black community.