Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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Senator Rachelle Crowe, a moderate former prosecutor who has served in the Senate since 2019, was recommended for the presidential nomination by Sen. Dick Durbin, the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, helping move her nomination along at a rapid pace. She will resign her post in the Senate and will withdraw from the November ballot.
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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.
Fresh out of that nationally recognized Illinois Judicial Hellhole known as Madison county illinois