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Ald. Chris Taliaferro (29th Ward), the chair of the Public Safety Committee, said he was saddened to hear that city officials had decided after 14 years “of somewhat of a failure” to start from scratch. “I don’t see a bright future. If we can’t get it right, how can we expect our youth to get it right?”
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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.
How about parents, instead of the police, keeping children out of the criminal justice system?
Oh no, the blame must fall on everyone else for there lack of effort in raising a child, children. It has to be everybody else’s problem. Back in the day we were raised by are parents and taught respect, I knew damn well not to get out of line or else, today sue,sue,sue even your own parents.
Years ago I joked with my spouse that it was racist to enforce child support obligations. Because some, but not all, people who have multiple children with multiple women, shouldn’t be forced to pay for their children in a modern society. Back in the days when we were all cavemen, everyone in the tribe slept with everyone else, and no one know who the father of anyone’s children were. All the men would go out hunting/gathering to provide collectively for the women who stayed back and reared all of the children collectively. Hence, it takes a community to raise a… Read more »
A few years back there were 2 Illinois politicians presented a bill that would require the fathers name on the birth certificate. It was almost immediately deemed rasist and they withdrew the bill within 48 yours or so. Their mistake was in my opinion that it was not introduced as a medical reason like the fathers family history of diabetes or cancer. It was introduced to have a father be responsible for his kids and thus reducing state aid for the mother.