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“This community has been drained of resources for almost 50 years now,” one West Side activist said. “If you pull everything from people and give them nothing and then this is all we’re left with, then people will start to do things that are desperate.”
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Audio and summary Illinois bill would override local law to allow homeless living in all public parks – Wirepoints
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago Fiscal Crisis Worse Than Pre-Bankruptcy Detroit, HIV Surge and Public Health Threat From Open Borders Goes Unreported
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Summary and audio linked here.
Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades
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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.
WBEZ and Chicago Sun-Times falsely blame Texas Gov. Abbott for 2020 to 2024 surge in Chicago Latino HIV, AIDS infections – Wirepoints Quickpoint
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Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
““This community has been drained of resources for almost 50 years now,” The problem with this concept is ‘the community’. Chicago and the suburbs are filled with communities. The communities themselves are transient with people coming and going, buying and selling, renting and moving. The idea that the ‘community’ has been drained of resources is just plain wrong because it’s lacked resources for 50 years, there’s been nothing to drain. If you live in a place that sucks, has nothing but drugs, booze and payday loans stores, maybe its time to move. To somewhere else. You know, anywhere else. Anywhere… Read more »