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On Nov. 9, Angela Mehlbrech, who was the LaSalle VA home’s administrator, referred to the number of staff members who had become infected in an email to the state agency’s chief of staff and spokeswoman. Mehlbrech wrote that “the main theme of questions from family right now is, how are we continuing to take care of our residents when we have lost so many staff members?”
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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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Summary and audio linked here.
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.
WBEZ and Chicago Sun-Times falsely blame Texas Gov. Abbott for 2020 to 2024 surge in Chicago Latino HIV, AIDS infections – Wirepoints Quickpoint
March 31, 2026
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Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
Lock em up
JB can wash his hands all day, but he’ll never get the blood off.
He watches whatever Cuomo does.
I don’t necessarily blame JB for this, because the coronavirus is a pandemic, and very definition of pandemic means a disease that is difficult or hard to control. But he used the legionaries disease outbreak against Rauner every chance he could. So what is good for the goose is good for the gander, and JB should be held accountable, and be charged with murder, and sentenced to life in Stateville, for this crime.
Instead of being put on the defensive he should be put in handcuffs
He owns the deaths there.