Chicago Weekly Crime Tracker – Wirepoints
May 7, 2024
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Weekly crime statistics from the Chicago Police Department: Report through 5/4/2024.
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Chicago’s public schools are broken. It’s time to give parents school choice. – Op-Ed by Wirepoints’ Glennon and Dabrowski – Chicago Tribune*
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Brazen election interference: Illinois Democrats retroactively change law to knock out Republican challengers. Surely, lawsuits must follow. – Wirepoints
May 7, 2024
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Gov. JB Pritzker calls it “ethics” reform.
Chicago needs more champions of literacy like Willie Wilson – Wirepoints
May 7, 2024
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It’s rare to see city leaders in Chicago take an open, unabashed stance on the collapse of literacy. To complain is deemed as too political, too racist or too anti-public schools. So it’s refreshing to see Willie Wilson, a successful businessman and leader of the black community, call for a literacy initiative “with the goal of getting 100% of Black students reading at grade level.”
Don’t fall for the “progressive-income-tax-for-property-tax-relief” tax swap referendum – Wirepoints
May 6, 2024
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While this new advisory referendum could be nothing more than a political distraction, it could also be that lawmakers are gauging Illinoisans’ appetite for another bite at a progressive income tax hike – this time with lower property taxes as a sweetener.
Pritzker doubles down with $827 million of taxpayer money for expansion by troubled electric vehicle maker, Rivian – Wirepoints
May 3, 2024
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At $1.5 million per job, the new incentive package from the state is at least 15 times the norm. For this much money, the state could have just handed out a million bucks to 827 people, instead of creating 550 jobs.
CTU Total scum bags! Seeing some of them on TV i would not let them near my kids!!!!
None of my kids EVER darkened the doorway of a public school or college in Illinois. Best investment I made.
Government run schools, even surburban ones, are beyond repair. It is time for parents to take matters into their own hands. Organize pods. Pay a teacher to teach. Unbundle the school. Then, en masse don’t pay the portion of your property taxes that go to government run education.
Sorry, but taxes are not voluntary contributions, although if you coud get massive numbers—maybe in the multi-thousands at least—to comply that would be really interesting. Then, you surely realize that “schools” have to meet certain criteria to be legally recognized.
Government schools suck because public unions suck.
taxes are not voluntary but Illinois taxes are. If you move to another state, goodbye IL taxes.
Great piece M&T!! Another idea, since we’re paying for them, let the voters vote for public sect union leadership. I didn’t vote for sharkey & gates to speak for me or my kids. If you listed to wttw/npr you would think we did
Good job getting into the Trib. And a well written column. Discouraging, though, in a way. Chicago’s citizenry has about as much a chance of benefiting from a reconstituted school district as a snowball has of benefiting from being on a sidewalk during a hot August afternoon. Too many stakeholders would combine to deny such a solution – public employee unions; the public employee union’s bought-n-paid-for elected-n-appointed guvm’nt lackeys-n-lickspittles; a judiciary that is reliably unsympathetic to imposing reforms on Illinois’ pestilential bankruptcy of finances and governance; a voting-elgibile citizenry that has been gerrymandered or bewildered into irrelevancy or apathy. Reconstituting… Read more »
Parents can easily get school choice by moving to Indiana. Simple as that.
Or Iowa
Cant read the article because it stopped me, but I’m amazed that the Tribune isn’t censoring Wirepoints.
Here’s an unblocked link. https://briefly.co/anchor/Chicago/story/op-ed-chicagos-public-schools-are-broken-its-time-to-give-parents-school-choice?hl=1