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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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This money would have been better spent putting body cams on the mayor, his staff, and all the aldermen. Document their stupidity and malfeasance 24/7.
IQ air has a feature where you can share your private air quality monitor results. Their website indicates 36 monitors in Chicago and 3 public data sources (public monitors) if I read their site correctly.
https://www.iqair.com/us/air-quality-map/usa/illinois/chicago
Great, we will have air monitors and no industry to monitor.
Is this the same city with LEAD WATER PIPES?
Now they just have to find a way to use all those monitors to tax or file lawsuits on supposed polluters to feed to $$$progressive scam beast$$$…which you can bet they already have plans. Who needs traffic ticket cameras when we have a zillion air pollution monitors!!!….enjoy your $$$$EQUITY$$$$
Chicago’s air pollution will improve anyway as businesses and residents leave the area.
Green, environmental justice nuttery. And the Sun-Times picture of polluted air is from when the Canadian wildfires fogged the air.
on one end of the spectrum you have things like this and on the other end there is christian nationalism-they are really just two different sides of the same coin.
Let’s just pretend it was from the Blommer Chocolate Company before the city was finally able to clear the air of the smell of freshly made brownies.