Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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The school district rejected the teachers union’s demand to close school that day. Instead, 100 schools will be provided with buses so that students have the option to “field trip” to a massive pro-labor, anti-President Donald Trump rally in the afternoon. After May Day 2025, the union set a new year’s resolution to “raise the bar” by organizing the “largest May Day action yet” in 2026.
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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.
In true Dem fashion, all the goodies of a school day ( transportation, supervision, meals) will be firmly in place, but any actual learning won’t even be attempted. It’s a model of the Marxist system- all of the benefits without any work whatsoever.
If mommy and daddy sign those permission slips ,they don’t care about their kids futures. Don’t learn anything watching a phone on a bus
How many students will be forced to go . Should make PARENTAL CONSENT MANDATORY !!