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Audio and summary Illinois bill would override local law to allow homeless living in all public parks – Wirepoints
April 14, 2026
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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.
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
April 10, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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.
WBEZ and Chicago Sun-Times falsely blame Texas Gov. Abbott for 2020 to 2024 surge in Chicago Latino HIV, AIDS infections – Wirepoints Quickpoint
March 31, 2026
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Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
Early in my career I worked as an IT contractor for six months computer programming at CPS. More than half the place read the paper at their desks all day, played solitaire, 3 hour lunches, took no initiative. LITERALLY they did nothing in the area of developing software, which was their job. Government workers get the day off simply because nobody at work will miss them if they are gone.
CPS IT is in a league of its own for incompetence.
Similarly, why can state workers take time off from their state job to work for a political campaign? After the election cycle, they go back to their state job. Next election cycle, they take time off from their state job to work for a political campaign. After the election cycle, they go back to their state job. Next election cycle, they take time off from their state job to work for a political campaign. After the election cycle, they go back to their state job. etc. So they receive two paychecks year after year, although not overlapping. 1. state job… Read more »
“The states that have declared Election Day state holidays must pay for the loss of one day’s productivity for all state employees,”. One less day of pushing pencils and eating donuts? At least the article refers to them as employees and not workers since they don’t know what work is.