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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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Just have classes inside of sports arenas. Based on the science of what we saw in L.A., no transmission can occur in stadiums
Another example of a school district keeping masks or remote learning to “protect” students from dissenting parents and pre-emptively labeling the protestors as a violent mob. Do they honestly think these protestors are going to approach masked students and shout in their faces or pull their masks off? The only thing protected here is the administration’s ego.
Masks are about power and forcing students to submit to their will.