Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Committee Chairs representing the Ways and Means Committee, Education and the Workforce Committee, Energy and Commerce Committee, Judiciary Committee, Oversight and Accountability Committee and Science, Space, & Technology Committee sent letters to the leadership of Barnard, Columbia, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Harvard, MIT, Northwestern, Penn, Rutgers and Cornell, warning them that they “will not rest” until a safe learning environment is restored for all students.
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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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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.
Rep. Lauren Underwood: As an American politician you are entitled to share your colleagues ‘ personal negative beliefs about Jews and Christians, but as a registered professional nurse, you are not. As you know, to renew your nursing license in Illinois you must complete “implicit bias” CME module. Not much in there, as currently written, about Jew hate. Can you imagine yourself and fellow nurses gleefully cheering as bloody, physically traumatized hostages are brought into hospital, as nurses in Gaza did October 7 2023? Until recently it seemed inconceivable. It seems likely that significant numbers now attending publicly funded Universities… Read more »