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There hasn’t been a jury trial in a Cook County courtroom in nine months. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Constitutional right to a speedy trial is suspended statewide.
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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Dear Whomever: I signed up for the wire points newsletter. I tried to download the jury story on my iPhone and it would not download, no matter how I pressed on it. The Illinois General Assembly article did download with just one push on the phone. So, I went to my laptop and
tried to download the jury story, and also tried to print it. Neither one worked. I went to print the story and only the header would show up on the screen, nothing else, not a single word of the story. Very, very disappointing.