Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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“We also cannot ignore the needs of our black and brown communities that are already disinvested in,” Ald. Jeanette Taylor said. “You’ve got people who did not get the rental assistance and are not facing eviction, you’ve got people trying to figure out daycare and summer programs.”
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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
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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.
Genora … but it is fair for Texas to be inundated with illegal aliens?
Might be time to step back and look at the whole picture, not just your little corner of the world.
You’ll feel the pinch when wait times for medical care gets longer and your kids special needs classes are supplanted by illegals’ needs.
Chicago is going to choke on this sanctuary city nonsense. Citizens are getting what they voted for – a seat in the back of the bus – or no seat at all.
Jeanette, honey, time for y’all to move to the back of the bus… “get with the program”, for cripes sakes…!!!