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The goal, the mayor said, is to remedy a pandemic-driven “she-cession” that’s had a disproportionate impact on women of color.
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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.
“Pay equity audit” to discover women of color aren’t paid equitably?
Does Mayor Lightfoot not realize she governs ALL Chicago citizens? She never mentions the white or Asian population, only BIPOC, except perhaps with contempt,
She hates white people. She’s spent her entire life in a white world with white professionals and she’s got nothing but contempt for them. It’s a personality flaw.
Isn’t her wife white? Yet her loathing of whites is pretty obvious.
Also, isn’t it telling that she knows the outcome of her ‘audit’ before it’s even conducted?
Sham audit, sham J6 committee – shams at all levels of government.
Sad and frightening.
The report and article has this tasty nugget:
You don’t say? Where have all the cowboys gone?!
Eventually Robespierre had his own meeting with Monsieur Guillotine.
Et tu, Groot?
WOKE NONSENSE ALERT: Chicago Is A Dead Broke, Unflushed Crime Toilet — But Failed Mayor Lightfoot’s Number One Priority Is Race Hustling Over Imaginary Wage Discrimination