Illinois has nation’s worst pension debt. Maybe that’s because state lawmakers take a problem they aren’t sure exists, apply a solution they don’t know will work and never determine the cost.
Dead on. Since Rauner the pendulum has swung in favor of union employees and pensioners but yet everyone acts shocked that JB wont offer up a constitutional amendment for pensions and Lightfoot provided a favorable contract to untions. We are truly dysfunctional.
Not we, they. I didn’t vote for any of these people and I take no responsibility for their actions. It’s a tyranny of the majority, and as a member of the minority, I literally bear no responsibility for any of this.
Traumatizing robberies and violent crime continue to go up in Chicago this year, hitting a six-year high compared to the same time last year. It’s crime in neighborhoods perceived as safe, sometimes taking place in broad daylight, that’s driving the increased fear among Chicagoans and suburbanites.
Ted was on The Chicago Way with John Kass and Jeff Carlin to discuss the proposed $5 billion lakefront stadium project proposed by the Chicago Bears & Mayor Brandon Johnson, why Chicago is struggling compared to other metro areas across the country, why the city might or might not go the way of Detroit, and more.
Some Illinois lawmakers continue to deny that covid aid and other federal stimulus bailed the state out of its fiscal mess. But a look at past and projected revenues from COGFA shows just how much the bailouts blew out the state’s revenues. And now that they’re over, how much harder it will be for Illinois revenues to grow.
Election integrity – both real and perceived – is essential to government’s legitimacy and stability. Illinois, like the rest of the nation, better fix its problems now.
They know the cost of not passing the pension, their legislative seats.
Dead on. Since Rauner the pendulum has swung in favor of union employees and pensioners but yet everyone acts shocked that JB wont offer up a constitutional amendment for pensions and Lightfoot provided a favorable contract to untions. We are truly dysfunctional.
Not we, they. I didn’t vote for any of these people and I take no responsibility for their actions. It’s a tyranny of the majority, and as a member of the minority, I literally bear no responsibility for any of this.
If you live in Illinois it’s “we” when the bill comes due.