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“With economic growth and jobs woven into its fabric, this new law is the most significant step Illinois has taken in a generation toward a reliable, renewable, affordable and clean energy future in a generation,” Pritzker said when signing the bill. Since then, energy prices have increased and energy companies and lawmakers say the switch has led to it.
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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Why would the so called poor care because they get LIHEAP among other assorted benefits including new rate structures tailored just for them?
Curiously, that blown up poster board does not look like an outline for 2024’s ballot harvesting operation. Not sure that ‘muh expensive utility bills’ is going to change the party affiliation of Karen in Lisle. I’d rather see the Republicans harvest all of her semi-politically involved neighbors instead.
Once you have paid you have been laid.