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.
It’s hard to believe that all three defendants were randomly jerked off the street. I hope that the family of the slain officer hauls Foxx into court and finds out exactly how this snafu occurred, hopefully before the accused runs out and gets a lawyer to sue.