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Jeannette Hoyt, environmentalist and Chicago professor, said there’s a “trend” of the community not being involved in the project, including a decision to cut down 1,000 trees in the area.
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 see the Obama center is going about as well as his presidential life and now his personal life. When are people going to realize Obama does not give a damn about the people in Chicago who live near the monstrosity he is creating?
Not a good career move for Jeannette Hoyt.
Were these people too dumb/misled to realize that Obammy is a grifter? Why the heck would *anyone* think he’d be “concerned” about *trees*, lol…??? He’s got his mansions, he cares not a *whit* about poor peoples’ property taxes…
Not only is he a grifter, he’s the King of the Grifters.
The Pharaoh shall have his edifice. The Pharaoh doesn’t care. So it is written, so it shall be done!