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Supporters say adding the history to the National Register would highlight the group’s importance. Opponents, including Fred Hampton Jr., argue it would perpetuate a slanted portrayal of the group. A state advisory council voted unanimously late last month to approve the nomination effort, after a Chicago commission chose in early October not to comment on the project due to the concerns raised by Hampton Jr. and his supporters.
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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Black Panthers are terrorists. Period. Yes, Bobby Rush is a terrorist. Any acknowledgement of this group of social vermin is twisted and absurd. Only Democrats and their leftist Wokesters would support this farce. Vote republican.
Time to let a bulldozer loose on that piece of ghetto property. But, but, but that’s probably racist.