Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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"By prioritizing all-electric construction for new buildings, the city can shift its attention to retrofitting the remainder of Chicago's building supply, channeling resources into the communities that need the investment most. ... Electrifying buildings will put our current workforce to good use and expand new job opportunities. A recent study showed energy efficiency and building electrification will employ at least twice as many workers as fossil fuels in buildings."
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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
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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.
Electricity comes from fairy dust. That’s what supporters of gas bans must believe.
I have to stop laughing to type this comment. Let’s tackle the biggest issue facing Chicago right now–“environmental justice.” And let’s get away from using natural gas, which every intelligent person in the world knows is the safest, cleanest, and in most places the cheapest, fuel for homes. And let’s force everyone to switch to electric heat and cooking. Does anyone know where electricity comes from? Try nuclear or coal powered plants. Good lord. It is just impossible to overstate the ignorance and foolishness of a growing part of Chicago’s population.