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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.
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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.
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A little long but absolutely worth reading, Pritzker is as guilty as sin please read. Pritzker Administration Keeps Trying To Kill Coronavirus Test Co.KONKOL COLUMN: Feds closed probe of SafeGuard coronavirus test company, and asked questions about Pritzker’s no-bid funding for U of I test.CHICAGO — Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s administration sure seems to want to get rid of the tiny coronavirus testing company competing for school district contracts with the University of Illinois’ SHIELD saliva test operation. SafeGuard Surveillance was founded last year by Dr. Ed Campbell, a suburban virologist and LaGrange School District 102 board member, as a spin-off… Read more »
Interesting using Shield in all Illinois public schools, this is the company that Pritzker gave 10 to 12 million dollars to whom by the way is a buddy of Pritzker’s is this a conflict of interest wonder how much money Pritzker is making off this illegal move. There was a article several months back by Konkol about a lawsuit against Pritzker for trying to remove another company from the public schools, he had devised a test better and cheaper than Shield and a majority of schools were in favor of this test over Shield forgot the company’s name, tell me… Read more »