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.
Move everyone to Social Security
Here’s my solution:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B90sU3A85q46OE9BZHJFSWEzbGM/view?usp=drivesdk
Thoughts?
At this point all public employees should know that it’s their problem, too. Pensions are not unbreakable promises, even at the state level. Inform yourselves about how the employees of Loyalton, CA, and the “LA Works” agency lost half of their CalPERS pensions. There’s no such thing as shared risk anymore on pension planet. States and cities cannot print more money. Anyway they tried that in Zimbabwe and it didn’t work.
Danville, Waukegan, Normal, Palatine, Hoffman Estates, Lake Zurich, Elgin, Peoria, Normal are just a few of many I’ve seen reported in the last two days. The list goes on from communities large and small in Illinois, all scraping for more revenue. Sorry to you readers who sent others we haven’t printed. If we linked to all of them, our homepage would be overwhelmed with the same story…It’s already beyond crisis. Illinois already has the highest property tax rates in the nation. Further increases will accelerate the death spiral. OK, here goes: 1) Freeze ALL wages, every penny, for every public… Read more »
Add a requirement that rates of return on investments be at the 200+ year average – 4.77%.