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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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“Acela Corridor provincialism” That, children, is how a professional journalist writes. John hit the nail on the head with this one. The NYT wasn’t lied to or duped. They willingly performed their normal regurgitation of DNC talking points in service to the Deep State and straight up lied to their readers. Their lies got retransmitted and re-edited into newspaper and television news broadcasts all over the country, making direct and indirect consumers of their intentional lies dumber for having consumed them. Russian Collusion…lie. President Trump cheated on his taxes…lie. President Trump is a threat to democracy…lie. The Coof didn’t come… Read more »
How the NYT stays in business baffles me. I’m just happy my parrot can’t read.
The NY TImes is a vast echo chamber for their libtard audience, so that is why they are successful. I had subscribed (digitally) for years, but after the election I cancelled, as the shrieking anti – Trump hysteria escalated, and even the one dollar a week for my subscription was simply not worth it. Did the same with New York Magazine, and even The Wall Street Journal. The WSJ has decent editorials and commentary, but their news reporting is increasingly “woke”, so why bother reading… in the last year or so they climbed aboard the “climate change” bandwagon, and that’s… Read more »
Chicago certainly doesn’t need any help killing itself. The compromised political leadership has been doing a masterful job forever.
The library at Bell Laboratories in Naperville stopped its subscription to this piece of garbage back in late 1970. The library notified the technical staff that the rag contained no useful information. Pretty much like Scientific American with its cannot be done attitudes.
John, I have followed your writing for decades now, as I followed Royko before you. Your analysis of Crook County politics have been indispensable, and your commentary dead on regarding them. Because I hold you in such deep regard, I must as a couple of questions for you. Feel free to answer them however you wish, if you choose to answer them at all. That said, with regards to the Opinion piece in the NYT regarding being deceived, written by a NYT columnist, you do realize with your decades of experience that it is an opinion piece by a columnist,… Read more »
Wow. Clearly your echo chamber has stifled your knowledge of the world. Wake up. Or perhaps you are simply a laid off federal worker upset about being yanked off of the taxpayer funded teat.
The Atlantic is word porn for leftists, Brian.
You seem to be blind from overuse.
More on this:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/pandemic-liberal-reckoning/682157/?utm_source=feed
P.S., the NYT has been reporting on it for Years.
The NY Times lost all remaining credibility when it published Jayson Blair’s series of plagiarized columns in 2002 and 2003. Mr. Kass writes here:
“I’d often discuss this rule with my political sources, elected officials, cops, city workers and others: Lie to me just once, just once, and I’ll burn you to the ground.”
I’d say the same to news media.