Wirepoints’ Matt Rosenberg was on with Bruce St. James of WLS 890 this week. They discussed Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s attempt to mislead the public on Chicago’s latest crime numbers.
Read more from Wirepoints:
- Don’t downplay Chicago’s crime this year. It’s up 34 percent.
- For Chicago’s South Loop and Near South Side, crime is up compared to 2019. And by more than a bit.
- Jussie Smollett’s legacy: Race-hustling must no longer hinder smart policy
- Spiraling Violence in Chicago: Causes and Solutions
- Five reasons why Gov. Pritzker’s gas tax “relief” isn’t relief at all
- Another pension sweetener? State lawmaker proposes a week of paid mental health leave for teachers
A set of state lawmakers want to extend CPS’ current school closing moratorium to February 1, 2027 – the same year CPS is set to transition to a fully-elected school board. That means schools like Manley High School, with capacity for more than 1,000 students but enrollment of just 78, can’t be closed for anther three years. The school spends $45,000 per student, but just 2.4% of students read at grade level.
Hopefully, all media will get the message, in Illinois, too.
Ted joined Tom Miller of WJPF to talk about Illinois’ highest-in-the-nation property taxes, why lawmakers don’t want to touch the tax’s cost drivers, just how much Illinoisans’ tax burden has grown over the decades, why Gov. Pritzker failed to meet his promise to reform property taxes, and more.
Ted joined Dan and Amy to talk about the free speech controversy brewing in Wilmette due to the city’s refusal to fly a religious freedom flag, the city’s left-wing excesses and the growing culture war, the latest money spent on the illegal immigrant crisis, and more.
Awesome job, Matt. It must be in your genes. Your father’s show was great.
Thank you very much.
Mayor Lightslippers and the carpet bagger police superintendent Downtown Brown have repeatedly told the sheep in Chicago that crime is down. Face the facts, they lie.
Well, 2020 was that dreadful COVID and Presidential election year, BLM riots so that’s probably going to be the worst violent crime year in Chicago history. Matt Rosenberg is right to compare crime statistics to pre Covid 2019. But as the brutal Soviet dictator said after he was given the news that over 1 million Ukrainian peasants had apparently starved to death during the 1930s Soviet collectivization of private farm land, later called “The Holodomor”. “One death is a great tragedy, but a million deaths is just a statistic”. Our side, the honest Chicago citizen side should focus on individual… Read more »
IIRC 2021 had more crime than 2020 because there were 12 full months of the racial reckoning instead of only 7 (June – Dec) in 2020.
Refreshing candor, Matt.
Society needs better people.
Better people make better parents.
Better parents make better kids.
Thanks. Ian Rowe at AEI released some important work last year on the quantitative benefits which accrue to adults who as children were raised by their two, married biological parents. There’s other such research, too.
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The reasons for the decline in marriage and the rise in single parenthood are complex and complicated, but the two I find most compelling are 1) societal attitudes changing toward premartial conjugation and the invention of birth control; and 2) the lack of good men/women as marriage. #1 needs no explanation, but as for #2: The lack of good men, it’s no secret that there’s an entire underclass of low wage earning men that can barely support themselves, much less a family, and women just aren’t interested in marriage with a man that requires her support. I believe much of… Read more »
Motivation, persistence and individual responsibility always triumph, but those virtues are shunned today.