Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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“At one occasion, there was a half-dozen private security and a couple of law enforcement people at a major station at 9 a.m. in the morning. That’s not when the danger is for the average rider,” a spokesman for the Active Transportation Alliance said. “It’s at 2 a.m coming back from a concert, and you’re boarding the L at Harrison station, where the lighting is poor, and there are very few people around.”
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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
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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.
Funny how the “ defund the police “ activists, realizing too late the folly of their dogma, now feel the need to direct how they think law enforcement should be deployed . What sort of experience at policing, or anything beyond agitation, do these people have in the real world?
Adjust the CCL law and allow legal concealed carry on public transportation.