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"According to the indispensable web site wirepoints.com only 2 in every 10 students can read at grade level. Only 16 percent can do math at grade level. But they and their parents and all Illinois taxpayers have been assaulted by Democrat race baiting—in which they’ve been given a sense of political excuses for their academic failure. And now after a K-12 public education, the Illinois kids are fit for two things: unemployment and prison."
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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
April 10, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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.
WBEZ and Chicago Sun-Times falsely blame Texas Gov. Abbott for 2020 to 2024 surge in Chicago Latino HIV, AIDS infections – Wirepoints Quickpoint
March 31, 2026
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Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
I stopped reading 1/4 of the way through. Mr. Kass, how about losing the cuteness and “cleverness” and writing plainly? I think you may have something interesting to say, but your “style” is too off-putting for me.
Lots of Illinois pension money is being spent in Naples and elsewhere in Florida.
And a whole lot more of American money being wired across the borders and spent in its destination. I’m pretty sure that we are the only country that allows this.