Given where Chicago is right now this new stadium proposal is a bad idea and a bad deal – Wirepoints on The Chicago Way with John Kass
April 26, 2024
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Ted was on The Chicago Way with John Kass and Jeff Carlin to discuss the proposed $5 billion lakefront stadium project proposed by the Chicago Bears & Mayor Brandon Johnson, why Chicago is struggling compared to other metro areas across the country, why the city might or might not go the way of Detroit, and more.
Some Illinois lawmakers continue to deny that covid aid and other federal stimulus bailed the state out of its fiscal mess. But a look at past and projected revenues from COGFA shows just how much the bailouts blew out the state’s revenues. And now that they’re over, how much harder it will be for Illinois revenues to grow.
Election integrity – both real and perceived – is essential to government’s legitimacy and stability. Illinois, like the rest of the nation, better fix its problems now.
Ted joined Dan and Amy to talk about Chicago’s latest bond offering, why Chicago’s dismal home value growth is due to poor policies, the next $70 million to be spent on migrants, the 9% salary hikes demanded by the CTU, and why Illinois lawmakers voting to stop Chicago’s selective enrollment schools from being closed is hypocritical.
Weekly crime statistics from the Chicago Police Department: Report through 4/21/2024.
Why are ICE vehicle drivers in IL paying these huge gas taxes and EV drivers get a pass to be similarly gouged? Maybe it’s a negative incentive to force more people to buy expensive EVs, so IL can declare itself the EV leader of the country. That would be yet another reason to scoot.
And how much higher since Joe grandstanded his first day in office with his sweeping executive orders? There’s a stat for you.
They had to wheel out the old “unscheduled maintenance at the BP refinery” excuse to prop prices up. It’s an oldie but a goodie. In another two months it will be the “summer blend” excuse. Of course if prices drop after that they can use the “geopolitical unrest” excuse. These greedy bums will do anything to keep oil high.
Time for the Joe Biden “I DID THAT” stickers to reappear.
When posted on a gas pump, those things disappear quicker than pancakes on a cold winter morning.