National Public Radio’s Debacle and the ‘Vibe Shift’ – Wirepoints
April 18, 2024
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Hopefully, all media will get the message, in Illinois, too.
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Mark Konkol: "His administration treated Chicago as if it were two cities — one for the rich and powerful, another for the poor and forgotten. Chicagoans remember how often Emanuel bragged of attracting an always increasing number of tourists from around the world, while turning a blind eye to the exodus of Black families fleeing neighborhoods neglected by City Hall."
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Growing property tax burdens make this state unlivable for too many Illinoisans – Wirepoints joins Tom Miller of WJPF Carbondale
April 18, 2024
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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.
Illinois education officials keep trying to hide their failures behind excuse of “higher test standards” – Wirepoints
April 17, 2024
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Illinois’ dismal education numbers – especially for minority students – are embarrassing to politicians and officials. But rather than admit there’s a problem with Illinois’ education system, they attack the state’s own standards for being “too high,” instead.
Wilmette protects government speech…but not free speech. – Wirepoints on AM 560 Chicago’s Morning Answer
April 17, 2024
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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.
Chicago Weekly Crime Tracker – Wirepoints
April 17, 2024
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Weekly crime statistics from the Chicago Police Department: Report through 4/14/2024.
Doc on Biden’s COVID Task Force Thinks Living Past Age 75 Is Morally Problematic – Joe Is 77 And as for Biden, hoo boy. Emanuel wrote that “the fact is that by 75, creativity, originality, and productivity are pretty much gone for the vast, vast majority of us. This brief comment was made by Rahm Emanuel’s brother who is slated to be one of the Covid task force experts, Dr Ezekiel Emanuel, was also one of the authors of the Affordable Care Act. The article where this quote came from is much longer and basically says that nobody should live… Read more »
So, let’s have a virus that kills old people.
And let’s not forget his cave-in to the Chicago Teachers Union which exacerbated the City’s current budget problems, Or how about his $500 million emergency property tax increase that was supposed to solve all of our pension problems. That $500 million is down the drain and the pension problem is way worse. Or how about the hundreds of millions of TIF funds that went to his buddies and starved the neighborhoods and the schools. He was a disaster of a mayor and only used the Fifth Floor as a holding tank for when Hillary won the Presidency so she could… Read more »
All the Emanuel brothers are bad for any place especially the US!!