Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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Devon Braunstein, director of the Illinois Office of Broadband, said Illinois will be receiving just over $1 billion for the broadband rollout. “So what the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program funds will do is offer the opportunity for internet service providers to build connections to every household and every location who do not have it so by the end of the program they will have at least one option they can subscribe to."
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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
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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
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.
Looks like Illinois just solved the migrant health care bill.
Illinois has a director of broadband, another waste of money,absolutely insane
This program was not communicated to the public or local municipalities at all. Also, this program plans to spend $1B in Illinois to build Internet connections to underserved communities where 25/3 Mbps is common. This is often all people can get who pay for it! The “program” was supposed to allow the public to go to a state website, run a speed test 3 times and then the state would use this information to decide who gets some of the $1B to somehow enhance broadband. But gosh…no body heard about it…guess the state will have to “choose” what communities get… Read more »