Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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Illinoisans ‘ought be concerned’ report ranks IL 45th for economic outlook – Center Square
Joshua Meyer, director of the tax and fiscal policy task force at the ALEC, said Illinois has not seen much improvement across the report’s 15 competitiveness variables: “Unfortunately for people in Illinois, over 19 years, it's a state that's been stuck in the bottom 10 with little sign of moving anywhere out of that bottom ten." He said the state could drop further if it implements a graduated income tax or millionaire’s tax.
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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
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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.
Stuck in democratic rule since the first days of Madagan
Pritzker has his own economic statistics that say Illinois is doing just fine.
if so, he must be using the trump method then as djt has been doing the exact same thing ever since being elected to political office.
Deflection as usual
Apparently, nobody cares. And that is why the democrats are free to do what they do.