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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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Illinois is on the front line of the communist take over. Illinois teachers are soldiers to the cause. Wake up Illinois
It’s called intimidation and strongarming. Just like all those patronage workers who vote lock step for their “sponsors”. If they dont do the right thing and step out of line they get harassed and/or lose their job, their location, their shift. Its organized crime folks. It’s just way bigger than the mafia and impossible to stop now.
Too funny. I pay for the Sunday (from daily, years ago) edition to get the Jumble and the ads… The removal of reader comments (the only check to their journalistic lack of integrity) and the unabated editorial support of Chapman, Hupke, Glanton, etc. drove the nail into the coffin. They became poor quality TP… What a freaking joke the media has become. Our press, intended to be unconstrained and a check to those in power, is simply the marketing department of all that is wrong with our country. And yet, this is the will of the people. People are unquestionably… Read more »
The local fishwrap here allows comments but they must go through the Facebook posting thing meaning even here in rural Illinois Facebook has an element of control over free speech.
*The Tribune says*…
Is the modern day version of…
*A guy walks into a bar*…
The Tribune has Dilbert and lots and lots of articles from the Washington Post, New York Times and Los Angeles Times. They go to press to early to report the final score of a mid afternoon baseball game. They have yet to discover they are irrelevant.
I use to by the Sun Times in the late afternoon for the rail commute home. It was reduced to a quarter, a reasonable price for the patternless crossword puzzle.
Right. The Tribune’s news pages (which are actually separate from its editorial department) now use almost exclusively A.P. and NYT syndicated stories to cover national news topics. Most other local papers do the same. Those stories are usually garbage — distorted, if not outright dishonest, and full of opinion. If you are relying on them for national news you are living in a fictional world.
Mike Royko warned us this would happen in the 1990s with all the media consolidation. It appears you have more news outlets but really you have fewer and fewer sources.
They will never rise up, you will do as we say and like it or leave.
Everyone saw the viral video of the ‘Karen’ in Oregon apoplectically screaming obscenities at peaceful Covid19 lockdown protesters from her Subaru with her mask off. The ‘Karen’ was a union ‘school teacher’. No different with CTU members.
I can’t believe the Tribune is so naive as to even ask this question. The teachers operate in lock step with the union, thats their real boss, not the school district. The school district cannot fire a teacher or even reward a teacher, or even dictate their work, but the union can make their life a living hell as a scab if they leave their lane. The school district and the mayor are a big eunuchs here, they have no balls. The union is all balls. The district will probably roll over to all demands and give them a raise… Read more »
it appears every teacher agrees with the CTU’s radical madness