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 26, 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.
The average person doesn’t realize how radical and extreme CA is, particularly with their CARB. CARB could only get their emissions laws met by forcing diesel OEMs to meet a standard that would effectively make trucks air scrubbers – that’s right, what was coming out the pipe was more acceptable than what was drawn into the air intake. The diesel truckers where being used as scrubbers. Of course the cost of this lunacy was ultimately bore by consumers. These people in CA are as radical and nutty as you can find.
I sincerely cannot wait to get out of here. Family responsibilities are the last steps.
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Thanks Mark, how much more stupidity can people in this state take.
That’s truly the ultimate question. How much more stupidity can they take? I fear we are not there yet.