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“If you want to reopen schools, you pretty much can’t do it without the consent of your teachers,” said Jon Shelton, an expert on labor and school districts at the University of Wisconsin in Green Bay. “The power teachers unions have does not just come from contracts. It comes from members being able to take concerted action.”
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Audio and summary Illinois bill would override local law to allow homeless living in all public parks – Wirepoints
April 14, 2026
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago Fiscal Crisis Worse Than Pre-Bankruptcy Detroit, HIV Surge and Public Health Threat From Open Borders Goes Unreported
April 10, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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
April 3, 2026
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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.
WBEZ and Chicago Sun-Times falsely blame Texas Gov. Abbott for 2020 to 2024 surge in Chicago Latino HIV, AIDS infections – Wirepoints Quickpoint
March 31, 2026
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Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
I finally got a Christopher Columbus statue in my pad. Ain’t that groovy? I think so.
Lori must and will give into the Marxist CTU like she did to blm and Antifa when she took the Columbus statues down at the insistence of radicals. She and the democrat scum need the Election Day workers. They totally control Lori and they will run blm lover Stacy Davis Gates against her for mayor.
Government officials can do whatever they want with statutes, on public land. ?
The statue belonged in Columbus Park, not Grant Park. ?
Tell the stupid lazy incompetent parasites they’ll do as they’re told or be fired
Your last clause kinda goes without saying, doesn’t it? That’s not to say I agree with your negative characterization of them. Just because they aren’t seen as easily doesn’t necessarily lead to your characterization. Presumably they are all (or maybe nearly all we can only hope) home slaving away trying to do their best with this new way of teaching, something that takes lots of behind-the-scenes effort even when done normally and maybe at least equally so now).
Of course they can. But they will not
Vouchers for parents. Let the money follow the student to the best service.