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Comment: Writer Ameya Pawar, executive director and co-founder of One Illinois, is also a Leadership in Government Fellow with George Soros's Open Society Foundations. Pawar is funded by OSF to work on national public banking efforts, but writes here about Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass.
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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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Summary and audio linked here.
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.
WBEZ and Chicago Sun-Times falsely blame Texas Gov. Abbott for 2020 to 2024 surge in Chicago Latino HIV, AIDS infections – Wirepoints Quickpoint
March 31, 2026
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Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The writers basically claim that safe streets in the suburbs are a form of “white privilege”. As Sam Jacobs writes in his must read article titled “War on the Suburbs: How HUD’s Housing Policies Became a Weapon for Social Change” https://bit.ly/2ZHsRiU “Once the suburbs are branded as racist, it then becomes a matter of public policy to attack them and dismantle them as communities. That is what is behind the attack on the suburbs in general, but single-family housing units in particular.” Biden’s Unity Plan proposes big changes for home owners. This issue is not getting the attention it needs;… Read more »
excellent discussion of this on last Sunday’s Mark Levin with Stanley Kurtz
Jeanne Ives, here is a very relevant topic for you to address as you bid for suburban womens’ votes in the upcoming Nov. election against progressive nightmare Sean Casten.
Up until now, I had no idea Soros was Jewish. Just thought of him as an Eastern European tycoon. The “invisible hand” I see is an off-shore billionaire inserting himself into local politics through numerous intermediaries. Isn’t that the true story here?
What Pawar and others has done is “Dorothy Browned” political dissent. Identifying government ineptness or suspicious political contributions is now labeled as “unconscious racism”. They want to conceal the truth but are upset we won’t let them.
the guy who wrote this is actually on The Soros payroll. It would be the same as Joseph Goebbels writing a column defending Hitler. How does this get published?
Complicit media doing the bidding of their masters.