Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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Plaintiffs include ISU students, the Normal Township supervisor, and the local union president who is an ISU building service worker. More than 300 ISU building services, grounds, and dining services employees have been on strike for two weeks while asking for better pay.
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Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago Fiscal Crisis Worse Than Pre-Bankruptcy Detroit, HIV Surge and Public Health Threat From Open Borders Goes Unreported
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Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades
April 3, 2026
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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.
if the replacement workers receive nothing more than the union workers receive, apparently what they are asking for is excessive and let them be replaced.
What on earth does Giannioujalis’s office have to do with ISU trash? What a pompous jerk. He doesn’t know a thing about what the parties are negotiating over. As a past negotiator for a public employer, that pap he’s putting out about always being able to reach a satisfactory agreement is garbage. If one side makes up its mind that it has to have some unreasonable provision in the contract, settlement is difficult or impossible. And the taxpayers are going to foot the bill for everything extra ISU puts on the table, not that Alexi cares; he’s too interested in… Read more »