Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
May 6, 2026
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
Useless Chicago Media DNC-rag Crains’ Jon ‘Assplunder’ Asplund pens another love letter to Illinois political animals throwing around confiscated taxpayer funds to fight yet another phantom menace. I mean, the political animals have this money in a great big pile so they just have to spend it, right? Never mind that all that mask wearing, social distancing, and two weeks to insanity that these political animals mandated last time were completely ineffective against the virulent Wuhan Lab Flu that The Coof really was. Stockpiling supplies sounds admirable to Assplunder the political animal apologist. However, most of those supplies will likely… Read more »
in hindsight the “safe and effective” claims proved to be neither. just the fact that liquor stores & fast food joints remained open while gyms were shut down proves that it was never about public health. th.e next one is inevitable because nothing has been done about the root cause-of course that is unsurpising because there is little to no profit in prevention.
What garbage this article is — quoting and defending the very people who made the glaring mistakes, none of whom have been held accountable. This is the article Crain’s should be running: https://wirepoints.org/in-hopes-of-doing-better-next-time-heres-a-list-of-illinois-covid-policy-mistakes-wirepoints/