Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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“I mean, I don’t know what it’s going to take. I don’t know what kind of help we can get but it is a call on parents. It’s a call on aunts, grandmothers, grandfathers, uncles, cousins, friends,” Ald. Monique Scott said. “We got to love on each other a little bit more.”
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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
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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.
“I mean, I don’t know what it’s going to take. I don’t know what kind of help we can get but it is a call on parents. It’s a call on aunts, grandmothers, grandfathers, uncles, cousins, friends,” Ald. Monique Scott said.
It’s a call on Chicago and Cook County to arrest and prosecute violent criminals with punishment befitting the crimes.
If it didn’t happen in a Catholic church it wasn’t a mass shooting.
The Tribune’s reporter’s closing sentence:
“The Ogden District has long been one of the most violent in the city, a byproduct of racist policies such as redlining and contract home sales that further solidified racial segregation among the city’s neighborhoods during and after the Great Migration.”
The fact that such a fatuous opinion got past whatever passes for editors at the Tribune, and into print, tells me just how wrong-headed that newspaper is.
So much for BJ’s crime strategy — 50 shot last weekend
https://heyjackass.com/enlightening-commentary/dont-demonize-weekend-9/