When Mayor Lori Lightfoot holds a hearing on the city’s franchise agreement with ComEd later this year, at least one alderman, socialist Daniel La Spata (1st), will vie for her to cancel it altogether.
His alternative? City Hall takes over the grid itself, transforming Chicago into a public power community like Los Angeles, Austin, Cleveland, and a number of other cities.
The entire article is truly backwards progressive thinking. The problem with ComEd is the corruption that comes from one man from Springfield named Mike Magidan. They are both members of the same political party, Democrats. But this truly naive alderman, Daniel La Spata, thinks that its better for corrupt Chicago government to take over ComEd instead of fixing the problem, which is actual criminal corruption in Springfield. The articles cites the water dept and the Chicago Transit Authority as examples of government run public services. Except the article fails to mention the inconvenient fact that the water department loses 10%… Read more »
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
The entire article is truly backwards progressive thinking. The problem with ComEd is the corruption that comes from one man from Springfield named Mike Magidan. They are both members of the same political party, Democrats. But this truly naive alderman, Daniel La Spata, thinks that its better for corrupt Chicago government to take over ComEd instead of fixing the problem, which is actual criminal corruption in Springfield. The articles cites the water dept and the Chicago Transit Authority as examples of government run public services. Except the article fails to mention the inconvenient fact that the water department loses 10%… Read more »