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Some kids said they were too scared to play outside after hearing gunfire, a preschool leader said. A 20-year-old woman was killed and two men were wounded in two shootings days apart. “We can’t let these children just see this as something that is normal,” a teacher said. “Kids should be outside playing when it’s hot outside, not scared of being shot.”
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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Just more silly decisions, nothing to be alarmed about.
Yet, the community manages to raise children that gravitate towards shooting each other. How about you stop raising kids to shoot each other? The first step to stop gang shootings is to just stop shooting. That’s what drives me nuts about this. It’s not like these are some kind of natural disasters, or wild animals attacking villagers like in India, or even outside invaders like in Russia. These are people shooting at themselves.