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One of Mayor Brandon Johnson’s neighbors has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for brutally killing a woman with a baseball bat inside his home directly across the street from the mayor’s residence.
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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Mayor Pinhead – your plan is working perfectly.
The mayor didn’t say he had a misspent youth and just needed to blow off steam ?; Interesting
The murderer “had no previous criminal record, earned a degree in childhood development, and spent the last five years before his arrest working at a daycare center…”
Out in 10 years- count on it. Life is cheap in Chicago or whever else Democrats rule.