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After three nooses were found in a bush in Evanston, Illinois, two children were vilified as racist. A family was driven out of their home. Now, over two years later, the parents reveal the truth. A city full of Jussie Smolletts, but nobody has been held accountable.
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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I wonder why Wirepoints is posting an article from four months ago. Nothing interesting happening right now?
I overlooked the date, but we had overlooked the story, too.
Liberals eating their own. Funny when you think about it.
Evanston had its problems, but the radicals now rule the roost. Evanston High School’s longtime athletic director, Willie May, a 1960 silver medalist in the high hurdles, an incredibly inspiring and competent African American man from Blue Island, wouldn’t have put up with this nonsense for a second. A man of grace and high standards. Willie May may have actually won the gold medal. He would tell all of us in the Central Suburban League that the race was so close that it was the reason for the introduction of electronic timing and photo finish technology in the sport. No… Read more »
If Evanston didn’t have Northwestern University it would be a poverty town.
Nooses here, nooses there, nooses everywhere. Jussie, Bubba Wallace, the VA black female politician, all with the powerful noose accusations, all false. Most hate crimes against blacks are in fact false flags but still get plenty of attention from the media always on the lookout for another Twana Bradley.
Which was also a LIE .
And Bradley was left holding the bag for civil damages awarded the accused by Al Sharpton, who championed her lawsuit and ran away hard and fast when the hate crime narrative went south.