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Juan Carlos Silva left his native Venezuela in 2020. He spent months in Colombia and Ecuador, passed through Brazil and Chile, carrying his art supplies with him, and finally arrived in Chicago from San Antonio, Texas, last month. The 46-year-old former military man is staying in the lobby of the 22nd District Police Station in Morgan Park, and lending his talents to the Edna White Community Garden, next door to the police station, volunteering to paint the garden’s sheds and benches.
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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The new South American Picasso. Not!
Needs to go HOME! Unless he has some really unique skills and painting murals is not one of them.
Another feel-good article that fails to address any of the enormous fiscal problems related to large number of new migrants arriving in Chicago area.
Reminds me of our self-congratulatory condo board emails effusively acknowledging board members “hard work” for simply attending a one-hour monthly meeting to rubber-stamp whatever property management firm proposes.
Everyone wants a medal for simply showing up.
These propaganda pieces are increasing. Now do an American flag Juan Carlos.
Import the third world, become the third world. There’s nothing impressive about that painting of a public park bench. It looks like it was done by a high schooler.