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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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Masks offer very little protection from respiratory viruses. Reduced oxygen and inhalation of carcinogenic plastics are more concerning to me than the virus. Seems despite the order many are not complying.
I’m in CPS and schools are still covid testing and recommending masks. When all the teachers who are still wearing them decide not to then maybe the atmosphere of worry and anxiety will be eliminated. Why would they want to do that though…
I’ve been to the courthouse this year for a traffic ticket and to get some other documents. They give you a mask when you walk to wear, but after you pass through security, no one is wearing them. For my traffic court case, no one had on a mask and the courtroom was packed. The bailiff walked in, not wearing a mask, told everyone that the Chief Judge Evans requires masks of all people in the court house, and then he sat back down, again, himself not wearing a mask. So Judge Evans is basically playing along with the fiction… Read more »
This judge does not know the law – no surprise there. He does not have the authority to keep this implemented. He is violating the law and people’s constitutional rights.
Tip your hat, bow and genuflect.