Ted joined Tom Miller of WJPF to talk about Illinois’ highest-in-the-nation property taxes, why lawmakers don’t want to touch the tax’s cost drivers, just how much Illinoisans’ tax burden has grown over the decades, why Gov. Pritzker failed to meet his promise to reform property taxes, and more.
Illinois’ dismal education numbers – especially for minority students – are embarrassing to politicians and officials. But rather than admit there’s a problem with Illinois’ education system, they attack the state’s own standards for being “too high,” instead.
Ted joined Dan and Amy to talk about the free speech controversy brewing in Wilmette due to the city’s refusal to fly a religious freedom flag, the city’s left-wing excesses and the growing culture war, the latest money spent on the illegal immigrant crisis, and more.
Weekly crime statistics from the Chicago Police Department: Report through 4/14/2024.
Chicago Public Schools is failing its students in almost every way. What can be done to save the educational futures of Chicago’s children? Join Wirepoints’ Ted Dabrowski as he participates in an education roundtable discussion hosted by Seeking Educational Excellence (SEE).
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I’d like to kindly remind folks that Illinois was a free state. A Republican president from Illinois (who like DJT did not win with a plurality) issued a proclamation freeing all slaves, none of whom lived in Illinois. Illinois sent many union men to their death to free the slaves. Illinois did not have Jim Crow, nor did it have the KKK, or lynchings, or systemic racism separating the races. It really makes zero, yes zero, sense for a city like Evanston to talk about reparations.
The party of the same KKK, Jim Crow laws, Woodrow Wilson, and LBJ (vile racists both) seems far more obsessed with race than their opponents, whom they constantly accuse of racism. And people fall for it. Every…single…time.