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Legalization includes an exemption to the Smoke-Free Illinois Act ban on indoor smoking, letting cities decide whether to allow on-site use at bars, restaurants, theaters, even new cannabis smoke lounges.
Summary and audio linked here.
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.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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I like the idea of being able to use cannabis on these entertainment hubs! Of course, the government needs to regulate it properly to avoid chaos!
That pic, from the suntimes, isn’t Rep Baby Killer (rep Cassidy) celebrating the passage of the marijuana bill, it was taken a few weeks earlier when the infanticide bill passed the general assembly. That is an old picture that the fake news is reusing and falsely labeling. She’s throwing her fist in the air to celebrate baby killing.
Got to love the fake news. It’s everywhere.
Yup, that pic is being used in many places. There are many similar ones of the giddy, woke backslappers congratulating themselves on this session. Save those pictures for the history books on Illinois collapse.
That pic is dated June 12 from ABC news. If you keep scrolling down on the left column here and load more a few times you will come to it.
So you can smoke a joint in a bar but if you want to smoke tobacco you can be fined.
This is the most effed up state in the union, bar none.
The fat slob is doing a better job of driving the state over the cliff than I could have imagined.
that’s great, I always wanted to smell like a skunk!