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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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Apparently Judge Moreland is in charge of who does and who doesn’t have First Amendment rights. Probably unaware of FOIA as well!
The judge seems to be saying that the information might be confidential, so it should no be posted. At least until trial. Seems reasonable to me.
“Cook County Judge Kate Moreland granted a temporary restraining order Aug. 7 barring Pekau from publishing “future statements disclosing the village’s attorney-client privileged communications and confidential non-public information contained in village personnel files,” and ordered he remove any publications of such information.”
Of course one could argue that all information held by a unit of government should be public, but I don’t think that’s the way the law works.
Exactly. This requires the reader to understand the nuance of the law instead of just shouting “first amendment”. The average reader doesn’t bother to understand how these decisions are made.
Censorship. Unconstitutional. Tyrants gotta tyrannize.