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"The cost of that debt eats deeply into state income and services and has left Illinois with America’s lowest credit rating, at just above junk status. Republicans within and outside Illinois love to lay all this on the state’s current Democratic power structure, but in fact it’s an ongoing crisis that has been driven by decades of inadequate pension funding under both parties."
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Audio and summary Illinois bill would override local law to allow homeless living in all public parks – Wirepoints
April 14, 2026
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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
April 10, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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.
WBEZ and Chicago Sun-Times falsely blame Texas Gov. Abbott for 2020 to 2024 surge in Chicago Latino HIV, AIDS infections – Wirepoints Quickpoint
March 31, 2026
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Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
I’m voting yes.
LOL The St Louis Post Dispatch should worry about taxes in Missouri where it is located.
Probably why they support the proposal. It will be a boon to Missouri.
Vote NO.
If you think that this is going to hit the people that have the money in the state you are dreaming. It is going to be for the common man.
That’s my take on it, if not immediately as soon thereafer as the strategy for doing it can be formulated, memorized and said by all in power without laughing or even grinning. That last part might take awhile longer.