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While people were allowed to go inside for temporary relief, to use the restrooms or get food, they were told they had to stay outside the station from 8 a.m.-8 p.m., a Police Department protocol that’s been in place for months, said volunteer Denise Alberts. Police “kick them out everyday; that’s not new, but it’s too hot — they can’t be outside now,” Alberts said.
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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You mean the Archbishop didn’t invite them to his house!?
Public Charges look on the bright side. In 6 months you’ll be colder than you ever dreamed possible.
ESL types can practice pronouncing and spelling ice, cold, slush, plow, freezing, snow, salt, shovel, slip, black ice, witches tit in a brass bra, well diggers ass, hockey and Florida. For extra credit use them in a sentence!
I hope there’s a cold winter. It’s been a while since a cold, brutal winter. I don’t have many good years left and I want to spend them doing winter sports: ice fishing, snow mobiling, ice skating, outdoor hockey, curling…
Considering what the weather is like in the countries these illegals come from, I think they can survive a two-day heatwave.
Fully agree. Much cooler here on average than the southern climates the illegals are coming from. If they have an issue, they are free to leave. Block Club Chicago seems to have turned into nothing but a grievance machine these days. Must be hiring all the students trained as grievance warriors by CPS. Good luck making a living with that business model.