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The rollout of a long-awaited upgrade to Cook County courts’ archaic case management system by beleaguered Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown’s office has caused disarray at the county’s main criminal courthouse on Chicago’s Southwest Side.
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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Incompetent sloths like brown and her patronage crew have played such a major roll in keeping low income blacks locked up in cc jail over the years…and yet get a free pass in the world of ‘wheres mine’ chicago/cc machine black polotics
Her office gets a bad rap all the time, and the political appointees staff with brown personally are truly incompetent. But there are actually a lot of hard working and helpful staff and clerks out there who really do go the extra mile for attorneys and courtious pro se litigants. Those court room clerks work their butts off all morning and afternoon calls. Many of them are really really busy. I mean, if you’re motivated enough to ‘buy’ a job (With a large cash donation to browns campaign fund), then you’re probably motivated enough to actually do the job, knowing… Read more »