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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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The Metro East needs to declare itself a sanctuary from the Dictator’s edicts. He wants Illinoisans to suffer and die
Could you write a series of articles about the theft charges facing Illinois State Rep. Carol Ammons (D-Urbana)? She is under investigation for the Jan. 10th shoplifting of an $80 Coach purse at a charity thrift store in Urbana. The story would tie that it to her subsequent sponsoring of Illinois House Bill 5830. Her Bill removes legal and contractual protections from workers accused of wrong doing. Rep. Ammons should be compelled to apply the proposals in her Bill to her own shoplifting incident.
If you’re upset with Pritzker’s handling of the Covid, look to Democrats who granted him unlimited executive orders. If you voted for those Democrats, look in the mirror.
It’s well past time that businesses stop listening to his nonsense. You can go gamble, drink and buy weed but you’ll catch covid if you sit down in a restaurant.