Bill enhancing penalties for threats against librarians stalls – Center Square

At an unrelated news conference before the bill was pulled, Secretary of State and State Librarian Alexi Giannoulias said if people make threats against a library, the protections that are currently given to schools should also apply to libraries. “I’m baffled that there's pushback on this and I am disheartened by it."

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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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