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The researchers found that the changes in climate didn't explain the changes in the rodents' skulls, but the degree of urbanization did. The different ways the animals' skulls changed may be related to the different ways that an increasingly urban habitat affected them.
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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Hmm…..what happens to a progs skull over time?
The climate in Chicago hasn’t changed much, except that the city doesn’t have sustained heat waves as the entire country did in the 1930’s. The urban heat island grew, but the overall temperatures are slowly declining over time.
I’m sure there’s some way you can link this to Cook County political critters…
yeah, they’ve evolved from old school pay-to-play Madigan machine types to CTU/Brandon-Stacy “new machine” equity hustler types. Different hustle same goal—- get every last dime of your chumbolone $.