Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
May 6, 2026
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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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.
Privatization – long, long overdue.
Was the state (& gov union) paid for the 1983 transportation “Funding Formula, (EBF)” authored by Ralph Martire/ CTBA? as well ad education EBF and other EBFs? How valid are the EBF for transportation after COVID in the new reality of remote work, remote retail, etc.
Anything authored by Ralphie should be dismissed out of hand.
If the government can’t run it effectively, sell it and let a private organization run it.
Who will employ all the friends and pals who get their grease from RTA/CTA/Metra/Pace? Not to mention the Executive Directors – think of them!
You can’t expect them to go get real jobs. How heartless of you.
In his article, our dear author, Nick Blumberg from ‘Wilmette Talking To Winnetka’, included a picture of rows of electric railcars parked on daytime storage tracks near the Art Institute. The trains have their nameplates photoshopped Metra blue, since the railcars depicted in the photo are actually operated by the South Shore. This is especially ironic in light of the South Shore not participating in the political animal panic over the financial disaster that the Executive Directors hired by the political animals blundered into. The acknowledgement of incompetent, top-heavy management structure (populated by those same blundering political animals) is masked… Read more »