Another Record Month for Our Readership and a Note to Our Readers – WP Original

By: Mark Glennon*

 

July is another record month for our online traffic, which continues to surge.

 

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And thanks to the growing list of media that have been quoting, linking or republishing us, which included The New York Times this month. We send tens of thousands of readers to other publishers through our links to their best stories, and it’s great to have reciprocation when we have our own good ones.

 

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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

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.

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