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Audio and summary Illinois bill would override local law to allow homeless living in all public parks – Wirepoints
April 14, 2026
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago Fiscal Crisis Worse Than Pre-Bankruptcy Detroit, HIV Surge and Public Health Threat From Open Borders Goes Unreported
April 10, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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.
WBEZ and Chicago Sun-Times falsely blame Texas Gov. Abbott for 2020 to 2024 surge in Chicago Latino HIV, AIDS infections – Wirepoints Quickpoint
March 31, 2026
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Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
Analyses using logical premises and applying to these actors involved are doomed. The Pyramid of this psy-op is 10 levels above Jabba’s pay grade and while his psychopathology gets off on it, he’s a bitty tool in the Toolbox of global Evil. Fight him and complicit politicos to the death, but look higher. Prepare and RESIST.
We now understand who is at highest risk of dying from Covid-19, and these are the people that should take precautions. Everyone else should be allowed to return to “normal” activity.
The author presents a reasonable, logical argument. Let me present another. Our Governor is a mutton-chop and is out of his league. He is simply not smart enough to manage the crisis in which he finds himself.
Pretty good opinion piece. However, the mob that Pritzker grandstanded in front of w/o any social distancing, prefers basketball to hockey. We know in the Chicago area who mostly plays hockey and who mostly plays basketball. That was a factor for Pritzker.