Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Chicago Mayor Johnson signs executive order setting up youth peacekeeping initiative – CBS2 (Chicago)
The mayor's Peacebook Executive Order invests $900,000 toward youth antiviolence programs, in which 50 peacekeepers between the ages of 16 and 24 will be hired part-time to teach their peers how to resolve conflicts and de-escalate violence.
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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
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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.
How about consequences for crime? Arrest, convict and jail the hoodlums.
Oh now see…this sounds like something that would work. Pulling $1M out of an upsidedown budget and spending it on part time workers to train them on how to resolve conflicts and de escalate violence…uh huh…that sounds like a solid “investment”. The Pinhead has come up with yet another way to money launder cash, this time he is trying to pay gangs to be his friend. Ya just can’t make this up… If you haven’t looked or seen the videos, there is a huge part of population of humans who have absolutely no understanding on how to behave in basic… Read more »
Who precisely is that part of the population?
Who Precisely? In those videos of crime, attacks, violence, etc…we have all seen, while there are exceptions… the majority of the participants are Black Americans. It is the minority Black community who make up 13% of the population but represent overall 27% of overall arrests and represent over 50% of the violent crime arrests. While there are exceptions, there are unfortunately, multiple generations of children being raised experiencing the same problems with crappy homelife, little responsibility. little respect for life and have no idea how to behave in society. $1M to try and reduce conflicts doesn’t address this complex generational… Read more »
This tried by each Mayor since RichardII and it does nothing but put money in some grifters pockets