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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.
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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.
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What an embarrassment for DePaul and a slap at their own students. We can’t provide security for a speaker on our campus because we don’t trust our students not to be violent. If our students don’t like what they hear, maybe they will hurt someone or destroy property. Who goes to the school? A bunch of thugs and mental midgets? If you don’t like what a speaker says, tell everyone what a fool he is and ignore his message. And the administration should be ashamed. Especially at a Catholic school– that is based on a religion that squelched science and… Read more »