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Four featured committee chairs - all members of the City Council Democratic Socialist Caucus or Progressive Caucus - said they want to use their power to help guide the direction of citywide policy. Among them, Ald. Michael Rodriguez said his Committee on Workforce Development needs to keep pressing forward to advance labor rights in Chicago.
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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Hmmmm…… Appears that none the Council’s 8 committee chairpersons who were selected for interviews will have to talk about Chicago’s crime, Chicago PD, Chicago’s budget or Chicago taxes. Given what’s in the ‘news’ every day, I’m a little surprised that it’s even possible to pick 8 committee chairs without coming across someone who you’d expect to have something to say about dozens of Black residents being shot or murdered every weekend, or Chicago not having enough money to pay for any of the stuff they say they’re going to do. The article starts by claiming that committees not meeting regularly,… Read more »
Here’s what they could do:
facilitate civil complaints by victims of violent crime against violent criminals.
If victims of several newsworthy criminals had enforceable civil judgements on file, the millions$$ collected by them later when cities are sued by these criminals or their estates would be collectible by victims of these criminals.
There are no competency requirements to stand for public office.
Both Lightfoot and Johnson lack the skills and experience to handle the job.
Add to their ineptitude this cadre of ignorant alder creatures and the once great city will continue its decline.
Chicago as a safe and vibrant place ceased to exist the day chaos was allowed to rule. Sad fate for a once great city.
Everyone needs to check these interviews out. INCREDIBLE! Not one mention of crime, or taxes, or pensions, or revitalizing downtown, or education (except as an afterthought by one of the commies), or public transportation. I guess all of those issues must be much less important than paid time off, Uber driver compensation and more meetings. Lord help us.
Ald Michael Rodriguez – ““Chicago is behind other cities like New York, Portland and Seattle on establishing minimum pay for rideshare workers.”
It costs me more to take an Uber than a cab to Union Station. You will make that spread even bigger. That means less fares for you Uber driver. Once again another politician with not even rudimentary knowledge of economics.
Probably most are products of Sheeeetcago’s K-12 education system!!
These idiots were the ones that let Uber and Lyft slide on commercial insurance, commercial licensing, predatory pricing that destroyed competition, antitrust, and everything else. They bankrupted cab drivers destroyed the medallion, and destroyed the previous market system that they created too.
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