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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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Devon Reid is over the top!
Ald. Reid is correct that this is a discriminatory policy. Let everybody dress, or undress, as they wish, and let the police focus on other priorities. Gotopless.org lists 15 cities where they say it’s legal for women to go about topless. No harm in adding Evanston to the list.
In the meantime, there is an escalating panhandling problem. Here’s a link to an “Evanston Now” article from today. My comments are at the end of the article, under “GM”; some excerpts: https://evanstonnow.com/residents-angry-over-panhandling/?comment=50941#comment-50941 Residents angry over panhandling by Jeff Hirsh – September 7, 2022 “If you shop at Target, you are a target. If you go to Bennison’s, someone will ask you for bread. And if you come out of Whole Foods, you’ll probably be asked, if not for a whole dollar, at least for some spare change. Panhandlers. It’s hard to avoid them in downtown Evanston, and some other… Read more »
Almost every large intersection in Rockford has at least one panhandler some with two. I ‘ve seen them in Crystal Lake the other day. I would like the nerve to ask them if they had change for a hundred but if they do they make more money than I do tax free.
Crime is going through the roof. The City’s street lights are a disaster. Commercial vacancies are rising. But it sure is a relief to know the Equity and Empowerment Committee is hard at work.
Their goal is to make sure that everyone is equally poor.
This ass-clown needs to be voted out — Evanston wastes enough time tilting at woke windmills