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Summary and audio linked here.
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.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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The mayor of Evanston was burnishing his image for his congressional campaign by protesting at Broadview. An Oak Park council member was “peacefully” protesting at Broadview by standing in front of a slowly moving SUV in a courageous and Herculean effort to stop it. If you want to protest, have at it, on the sidewalk. Or in Pritzker’s case, from a podium behind security miles away from “his people”.
Why aren’t we using water cannons on these protesters?
I haven’t seen a single one that doesn’t need a shower anyway.
They would melt. Bathing regularly is an evil, colonialist concept.
Indiana, please don’t blanket the comment section every day with no-value-added comments like that. We delete most of them.
Why not just build some nice condos for the protesters while they are at it. Would save them the trouble of driving here for the next protest.
Separating the protestors from ICE is the obvious solution.
And if it is implemented, the “protestors” will soon make it clear that they are not really interested in making their voices heard. They are looking for confrontation, and will ignore any safety rules in order to keep up the confrontation.
I wrote earlier that separating ICE from the protesters is an obvious and urgent solution, before somebody gets killed.