Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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While a majority of districts in Illinois report having full-day kindergarten, about 150 do not offer a full-day program. Even though the bill had bipartisan support in the general assembly, school district leaders voiced concern that creating full-day kindergarten would be expensive for school districts as they try to find space for more children and hire more staff.
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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.
Illinois Democrats Mandate Using Kindergarten As Free Day Care — With No Plan For How To Do It Or Pay For It
Another unfunded mandate forced upon the downstaters that will cost a bundle.
Prepare for another round of education property tax hikes for what amounts to little more than a jobs program for teachers and of course free baby sitters for the assorted members of the free stuff army. Heaven forbid they have to watch what they have brought into this world
Hmm, Old Joe went to half day kindergarten in Detroit in 1963. I don’t think it affected my life outcome. Why do I smell another government union grift?