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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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There’s that misuse of the word “demands” again.
Proven in other states that tried that tax on billionaires and they move and you LOSE MORE TAX REVENUE!! It has a negative effect.
Failing student proficiency reports not from lack of funding. It’s from teachers not tea and prioritizing indoctrination over education.
Demand they teach kids to be proficient to their grade level and then we’ll talk. Or stfu.
Another public union, wait aren’t they all?, out of control.