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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.
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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.
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It is time to return to facts as criteria for release rather than a judge’s opinion as to the safety of the community with or without the accused in it. The CWB article on Judge Lyke’s decisions illustrated the issue perfectly: he assessed it safe to return the person to the community and having decided that his return was safe, was “handcuffed” by his own assessment–he had to return Talley to the community. However, the handcuffs were illusory as it was his opinion that put him in that position. He could equally have decided that Talley was a threat to… Read more »
The legislature that voted for this garbage needs to be held accountable, including JB, who constantly touts how “safe” Illinois is. I am not a fan of anything Cook County, but the process was broken long before it got to O’Neill Burkes desk. Why not constantly expose every person that voted for the SAFE-T act, how many criminals go on to commit more crimes because of the lax laws, and name those judges along with the felons that get to impose their liberal justice as they see fit. If she is the only person that can put a hold or… Read more »