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"The Tribune has offered me and many others a separation agreement. This is my last column for the Chicago Tribune...I still have a few spears left to throw. Let’s see what happens."
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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I was delighted to see that the other female lefty, mary smich, is a quitter, too. Now, if only dahleen would sign up to quit.
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
You will not be missed.
A failure, catastrophic.
The wrong side of history are all of you, political hacks.
See you Zorn- No loss here
I cancelled my subscription when the Tribune “ temporarily suspended comments pending a review. This was the only forum at the time where you could call the mayor a thief. He didn’t like that so the comments never returned. The review was Rahm telling the Tribune to get rid of comments.. I worked in the press room in the 60’s and 70’s while going to school. It was an eye opener!
Outside of this site and a few others comment sections have been removed that, in my mind, lets many editorials pose as purported news stories. I don’t visit them because I recognize the futility of obtaining pure uneditoralized content at such site portraying being bews.
Well, bye.
All thats left is the brand name, Its kind of like the Sears of newspapers now. I liked Kass a lot, I’m sure he feels pretty stupid how wrong he was on his Lightfoot call. He was the one kernal that I thought the Trib could leverage in becoming the newspaper of the vastly underserved conservative. And make a financial killing at it too in both news and conservative book publishing. Kass being gone, its done, sell the presses on the industrial surplus market, maybe Iran can use them for propaganda printing. Sell the buildings, go home everybody.
Only conservative, and southsider on the trib is gone. Canceled my subscription years ago when it turned into nothing,but a bash Trump rag.Hope he gets a radio spot,agree with True believer too much of a Lori lover,but back 90% of what Kass has to say.
Kass lost all his credibility when he supported racist Lori. Good riddance that he’s gone. He refused to go after certain people because he is a tool of the democratic machine.
Did he really “lost all his credibility” just because he dared to support someone that was not part of the Machine? He was on Madigan for years, like a pit bull. I’m not sure if you really read all of his political articles. I passed on his cooking and gardening articles, but politically he was right on. So, he cheered for someone who is a complete failure in all respects. I’ve cheered for the Bears and Sox for so many years…
He never called for serious investigation of the machine because he was part of it. And if you don’t think racist Lori was not a part of the machine, you are too stupid to breathe. She was elected because her bff RINO Beverly Democratic scum John Lausch indicted Burke in a fake investigation intended to take out Daley, Preckwinkle and Mendoza paving the way for Lori to walk in. This was all by design.
I do agree, Lori is connected to some degree…no one gets elected unless they are part of the Machine. While not the CTU’s favored candidate, she’s proven to be a very useful idiot to them. She may as well have been their candidate.
Despite the cowardly incompetence of Lightfoot I still would rather have her as Mayor than Preckwinkle. We live in a deeply imperfect criminal oligarchy. Most of the time our voting choice is two different shades of bad. Worse vs. Worser. Heinrich Himmler vs Herman Goering. In a similar way, if you believe in Democracy then you also need to support a free press. Despite their hyper biased propaganda: So Tribune is preferable to the union owned Sun Times. I still subscribe to the Economist despite it’s Chinese Communist Party kowtowing and the globalist propaganda. You need to know what the… Read more »
With Kass gone, there’s no editor remaining at Trib who isn’t kiss-ass liberal censorist.
There’s mcqueary, wonder if she’ll call it quits? Or be forced out…hope not
I’m surprised he’s lasted this long at the Tribune…
Here is the best idea of the day– Wirepoints should get Kass on board. Probably boost readership and give Kass another outlet. and with 40 years a the Trib he must have a decent retirement package already.
Kass can’t be trusted. He passed on many many documented corruption issues because he didn’t want to piss of Daley and especially Rahm.
I enjoyed reading many essays by Mr. Kass over the years (the only thing to read in the Trib) and do hope that he continues with his writing. One regret is that Kass never sounded the alarm about the total failure we have with Ms. Mayor, all red flags up for the city’s rapid destruction. Kass was consistently much too kind to her in hopes of journalistic access, which could never happen with this racist mayor anyway.
The Tribune has been nothing but a collection of articles from AP, New York Times and The Washington Post. In other words, a secondary source for liberal BS. They couldn’t even print the scores of an East Coast baseball game in the next day’s edition. I am sending Wirepoints a contribution to celebrate the Trib’s further collapse.
A print version of Drudge…?
What does Alden think they can do with the paper? Turn it into a neighborhood paper? They were losing conservative readers by the ton and now they will lose liberals by canning Zorn, Chapman, and Stevens. They are probably cutting reporting staff as well as columnists. What will be worth reading in the Trib, let alone subscribing?
The hedge funds don’t care, the brand is fine. They aren’t in the news business, they are in the money for nothing business.
Tribune is dead- Will let my subscription run out an it’s over.
Tribune for years has reached to far left!
Shame on you for keeping it this long.
I know…
Many birdcage bottoms will go unlined in the future. Bye, bye Fibune, not many will miss you.
The Chicago Tribune, once the World’s Greatest Newspaper. RIP
When I moved to Illinois 32 years ago, one of my weekend joys was getting the Sunday Tribune, local edition, and WSJ weekender delivered to Central Illinois. Reminded me of my youth going through the Sunday WaPo and NYT with whole family after church. When Newspapers biz model pivoted 10 years ago to largely being propaganda outlets for the DNC, they became dead to me. No business is entitled, including newspapers.
This isn’t sad news, it is celebratory! The liberal rag once known as the Chicago Tribune is one step closer to death! I hope they fire my town’s local reporter too! The one who shows up to every Indivisible meeting and calls it news!
Let’s hope the tribune and sun times soon go bankrupt.