Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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“Violent crime is definitely something to worry about,” Robert “Wes” Wheeler Jr. said. “It is not an easy problem to solve and it requires evolving to what that threat looks like...I’m living here too and I feel it too. It’s just not acceptable that that’s what we’re dealing with.”
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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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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.
There once was a slogan “I’d rather have a sister in a whorehouse than a brother in the FBI”. A little dated and sexist but it was from a time when you could say things like that and not be sentenced to death
Of course, like the article says, the FBI’s focus will continue to be on anti-terrorism, as the new terrorists are the parents attending school board meetings, anyone with a confederate flag, abortion protestors, 2nd amendment supporters, any one that tries to comment online about vaccine efficacy. They’re all terrorists now. Gun crime, interstate human trafficking, drugs, cartels, these are not priorities. When Merrick Garland and Biden say the want their internal political enemies, he means it. You are the new target.