Ted joined Shaun Thompson to talk about about the Chicago Teachers Union’s absurd new contract demands, why so many Chicago teachers are chronically absent, and Brandon Johnson’s failed first year as mayor.
What a representation of Chicago’s plight.
The bill passed despite their votes in response to certain incidents where local prosecutors are thought to have been too lenient with non-citizens assaulting cops.
The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board cited Wirepoints’ analysis of Chicago student proficiency data in their latest piece condemning the Chicago Teachers Union’s outrageous contract demands…all while a vast majority of Chicago’s children graduate unable to read at grade level.
Ted joined Tom Miller of WJPF to talk about the details of Gov. Pritzker’s proposed $52 billion budget, why the state is struggling now that federal covid dollars have run out, the controversy surrounding Tier 2 government pensions, why Illinois’ expensive education system fails to teach children to read, the outrageous demands of the Chicago Teachers Union, and more.
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Even though farmers are paying double for fertilizers one thing is missing from this equation. Water! We are still in a drought pattern that may last years. Not much snow on top of little rain in our area and most of the west and midwest. It will cost farmers more than twice as much to TRY to grow crops which are dependent on water. It is raining in areas where few crops are grown and drying up where many crops are grown. The world is in a turmoil due to oil prices but the shortage of clean water in the… Read more »
Farmers are gamblers at heart or fail to recognize it when things go awry. Some years they win big-time, some are equally bad, and most years they can some variation of a reasonable living. Where they tend to “score” really heavily, if literally many decades of evidence is proof, is in owning at least some farm land. Many such farmers live modestly by necessity or choice depending upon the year, but land-value appreciation over several decades can make their estate’s beneficiaries wealthy, indeed, more often than not.
The most un-reported property tax burden story in Illinois is the parabolic rise in farmland property tax assessment engendered by tying to a U-of-I-derived productivity index (which does not factor in drought). No Illinois political class member is willing to address: property tax assessment of farmland reflects what Illinois productivity soil index determines is ‘fair market value’. In real life, fair market value for farmland is calibrated to cost of inputs and revenue potential. Soil productivity is one component to determine a willing buyer’s perception of value, but another component is the buyer’s cost burden of owning that land. (In… Read more »