A statewide concern: Illinois’ population decline outpaces neighboring states – Wirepoints on ABC20 Champaign
“We are not in good shape” Wirepoints’ Ted Dabrowski told ABC 20 Champaign during a segment on Illinois’ latest population losses. Illinois was one of just three states to shrink in the 2010-2020 period and has lost another 300,000 people since then. Ted says things need to change. “It’s too expensive to live here, there aren’t enough good jobs and nobody trusts the government anymore. There’s just other places to go where you can be more satisfied.”
Let them eat even more problems then, while myself and the others go to restaurants, bars and casinos in Northwest Indiana. They are bankrupt all the way around, financially and morally to the greatest degree.
I never take the ‘always another telethon’ channel seriously. Don’t even bother to program the channel into the view selection.
Looking past the fact that the order is not effective. I want to highlight here that 5% of of people defying the order will lead to the remaining 77% being punished. It’s like punishing your 4.0 GPA honor roll student with a full ride to college for the fact their sibling snuck out for the night and partied. Now you’re going to have both of them rebel.
I like the way she is creating a problem then blaming it on the public. No Mayor, it could never be you. /s
Of course the order can go past May. Almost certainly will. Look at the Wirepoints daily count of hospitalized patients with Covid 19. The 6 or 7 day moving average is still rising. Has been rising since counts began being reported. The emergency measures went into effect in mid March when we had half the number hospitalized that we have now. Most vulnerable people are aware of their vulnerability and are wearing masks and doing their social distancing as best they can but so far that hasn’t brought the hospitalization numbers down, at least not yet in Cook and Lake… Read more »
They won’t tell us the criteria for reopening, because then they could be held to it.
As you’ve touched on, they want all the credit, but none of the accountability.
WTTW is very much a Democrat leaning station. Like most of the local and national media their talking points all lean left. If the stay at home order goes past May most probably there will be even more of an uprising than has begun.
Agreed. He’s already floundering and we’re just at the ground level of the resistance. In another month, he might be ready for a straitjacket.
Didn’t Trump talk about eliminating the Public Broadcasting subsidies? Here you go: prime example No. 1. If enacted, I for one would continue sending my own money at my own choice to Classical WFMT. But not a cent to America hating WTTW.
Dear Mayor, If the number of cases is only going up marginally as compliance significantly decreases that is a good thing, not bad. Please think about it and if you still don’t understand, have a child explain it to you. They are probably smarter than your staff.
This isn’t about solutions, but about following orders. Lightfoot groveled and fought hard for that office because she was in awe of its powers. Do you think she wants you to come away thinking that she doesn’t have as much power as she thinks she has?
She’s thoroughly enjoying her status as the all-powerful, who can literally walk neighborhoods and shout out directives to people to obey. I’m sure it started out as a “save lives” effort, but now it’s growing into something else, and she is not even aware of it.