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A Sox season ticket holder, Lightfoot said a decision on when and how baseball will return will be made “at the league level” — not by individual team owners nor by the governors and mayors of individual states and cities. But she acknowledged having “ongoing conversations” with the owners of both teams about “what that might look like.”
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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She will be sitting there all by herself. But first she will need to get a haircut.
No fans means no foot traffic to the local bars. And since many of these Wrigleyville bars are dependent on heavy seasonal traffic to be profitable but will be subject to strict capacity limits, I imagine many of these bars might not survive the year.
I’ll pass as will my family.
Who wants to pay-per-view, and you know both teams will find a way.
We want to smell and feel the ballpark, the crowds and the sounds, the ambiance. Sitting and watching from home, smelly kids, so-so microwaved popcorn and hotdogs, barking dogs and barking wife. The only advantages would be the cheaper, colder beer, fewer millennial drunks, no parking problem and related extortion parking fee and Shi…congo taxes.