Given where Chicago is right now this new stadium proposal is a bad idea and a bad deal – Wirepoints on The Chicago Way with John Kass
April 25, 2024
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Ted was on The Chicago Way with John Kass and Jeff Carlin to discuss the proposed $5 billion lakefront stadium project proposed by the Chicago Bears & Mayor Brandon Johnson, why Chicago is struggling compared to other metro areas across the country, why the city might or might not go the way of Detroit, and more.
Some Illinois lawmakers continue to deny that covid aid and other federal stimulus bailed the state out of its fiscal mess. But a look at past and projected revenues from COGFA shows just how much the bailouts blew out the state’s revenues. And now that they’re over, how much harder it will be for Illinois revenues to grow.
Election integrity – both real and perceived – is essential to government’s legitimacy and stability. Illinois, like the rest of the nation, better fix its problems now.
Ted joined Dan and Amy to talk about Chicago’s latest bond offering, why Chicago’s dismal home value growth is due to poor policies, the next $70 million to be spent on migrants, the 9% salary hikes demanded by the CTU, and why Illinois lawmakers voting to stop Chicago’s selective enrollment schools from being closed is hypocritical.
Weekly crime statistics from the Chicago Police Department: Report through 4/21/2024.
I am terrified for the future of this state because there is no good candidate for governor. Rauner does nothing and Pritzger will destroy this state. Time to get out.
I have been trying to expose Glenn Singleton and his Pacific Education Group, SEED, and Peggy McIntosh’s “Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” for over a decade. When I worked full-time in the writing center at Deerfield High School, I criticized the feckless, racist efforts and expense of Singleton to the administration and school board. Singleton found out and in a meeting with all department chairs, he called for me to be fired (a department chair told me the next day, and two others confirmed it), boasting that he had gotten people fired in other districts. Two weeks later, I was removed… Read more »
Your experience is horrible but not surprising. We hear lots off the record from teachers who don’t like they but are afraid to talk publicly. I understand that for younger teachers who face retribution. For older teachers who are tenured or retired, however, I have little respect for those who aren’t speaking up.
Wow Mark, great article/analysis ! I looked at the SEED “project” website — IT’S FRIGHTENING ! And the founder Peggy McIntosh wrote the “seminal” paper in 1988 on White Privilege & Male Privilege. She even earned a PhD in the subject, from Harvard. Here’s her classic paper, from which derived SO much attention in academia and spawned a plethora of racist/sexist/hate-filled majors in universities: —— https://nationalseedproject.org/white-privilege-unpacking-the-invisible-knapsack ———- Notice she demands all Whites and esp all White Males, learn, understand and acknowledge how privileged they are, and do ALL THEY CAN TO END IT (whatever that means). How about this common-sense… Read more »
It seems as important as breathing to virtue-signal.
Pandering to supposed victim-hood is, in itself, victimization.
Segregation is alive and well in the democrat party.