Homer Glen officials unite against ‘one-size-fits-all’ state affordable housing proposal – Daily Southtown*

Mayor Christina Neitzke-Troike said residents move to Homer Glen because they desire a quiet lifestyle and enjoy its open spaces, equestrian fields and low density housing. “The whole reason we incorporated was to control our destiny,” she said. “We have a vision of how we want our community to look. Taking away a community’s right to preserve its vision is ridiculous.”
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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

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.

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