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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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The outpouring of liberal angst on NextDoor was startling. It’s as if reading something other than MSM would kill them. Some recipients called the Post Office to complain. They don’t complain about other political missives, but this one really got them heated. What was gratifying was the majority response: basically, if you don’t like it, chuck it … though you may want to consider reading another view. Liberal sheeple don’t believe in considering alternate views – those on the conservative side do. I listen to the liberal view and commentary and am appalled at how many lies … outright LIES… Read more »
Journalism and publishing abhor a vacuum. Journalists let there personal biases seep into their work, readers took note and went searching for other outlets, then other sources filled those gaps with equally biased but on the other end of the spectrum.
These are self-inflicted wounds. Mainstream journalists lost the trust of the public but don’t want to do the work to earn it back. They’d rather blame publications like “Chicago City Wire” for filling the gaps they left behind. Readers didn’t change, journalists did.
Oh look it’s Greg “not a real journalist” Heinz crying again about something not important and nobody cares about which is why nobody reads Greg Heinz or Crain’s anymore. “Disguising certain types of political communications as news is a troubling trend (since) many readers probably can’t tell the difference” That’s how former readers of Crains, the Trib, Wapo, Bloomberg and NYT feel too. I sadly couldn’t avoid seeing the NBC nightly news yesterday and they have resorted to a banner at the top of the screen that said something to the effect of “Only Facts, real news”. I laughed so… Read more »
So the local Pravda Media is upset that a dissenting voice that is not publishing “the Narrative” dares to exist??? The horror. The horror.
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