Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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The Environmental Protection Agency granted Chicago Public Schools more than $20 million to purchase 50 clean buses as part of its 2023 Clean School Bus Program Grants Competition. But another $500 million would be needed to buy another 1,250 electric buses to fulfill CTU’s demand.
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago Fiscal Crisis Worse Than Pre-Bankruptcy Detroit, HIV Surge and Public Health Threat From Open Borders Goes Unreported
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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
April 3, 2026
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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.
Cold winters and hot summers plus no charging stations for buses sounds like typical rhetoric for CTU Union leaders . Just demand how to spend taxpayers money!
The CTU leadership should look into the track record of electric buses. Of course, they really don’t care, but at least go through the motions. What’s happening to the children of Chicago is downright criminal. As products of one of the worst school systems in the country, they are ill prepared to participate in the workforce or society upon “graduation”. CTU leadership should be held accountable. C’mon Brando, be a real leader for once in your life.