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New Zillow study shows contrast in home values across ethnicities – Quicktake
The home-value gap for blacks is particularly big for Chicago -- 37% -- which is higher than the ten other largest cities in America and well above the national average gap of 16%.
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Illinois’ COVID-19 data: Daily update for Jan. 22, 2021 – Wirepoints
Daily COVID-19 data update for January 22, 2021. Includes new data on vaccinations in Illinois.
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How Illinois can save more lives by vaccinating the elderly first and how the inconsistency of Illinois’ lockdown rules create more chaos – Wirepoints on AM 560’s The Morning Answer
Ted was on AM 560's The Morning Answer this week talking about how Illinois can save more lives by giving the elderly the COVID vaccine before any other group, the inconsistency of Illinois' destructive lockdown rules, and how Illinois' leadership doesn't appear to have any real plan to bring the COVID crisis to an end.
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The Feds may force well-run states to bail out Illinois, Iawmakers’ emboldened spending, and Pritzker’s failed $500 million business tax hike. – Wirepoints on AM560’s Black and Right with John Anthony
Ted was on Black and Right with John Anthony this week talking about the how the Biden stimulus will ultimate force taxpayers in well-run states to pay for Illinois' self-inflicted crises, how Madigan's departure might hasten Illinois' decline because big-spending politicians have more power, and lawmakers' failure to pass Pritzker's $500 million tax hike on businesses.
This article is full of all kinds of gems. For those that can’t access it, the basics are what you think (my editorializing): 1. The city wants to clandestinely socialize the cost of utility bills by ending all disconnections and ‘extracting’ further concessions from the utilities. 2. However, any bad debt is paid by…yes the people who actually pay the bills, not the utilities. 3. This, some sages worry, will lead to further bad debt, as people realize there are no consequences to not paying for their utilities. 4. The utilities are “a-ok” with it all, because they are just… Read more »
And the progressives point to the Chicago Water Dept. as an example of government controlled utilities. We live next to the largest deposit of freshwater in the world yet our water rates are exorbitantly high, and continue to increase, and the infrastructure to deliver it is crumbing. The water dept. is subsidized, in part, by Chicago selling its water to suburbs for exorbitantly high rates, to gloss over the expense of its corruption and incompetence. Unfortunately for the neo-socialists in the Chicago City Council, Chicago does not and cannot sell it’s electricity to neighboring towns to cover over its losses.… Read more »
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