Louie’s Law: Illinois legislation sets new standard for drug education in schools – FOX32 (Chicago)

Louie's Law is a departure from previous programs that only taught students to "just say no" to drugs; it's a mandate for the Illinois Board of Education to create and recommend a comprehensive drug education curriculum because currently there isn’t one. It will also give high school students the chance to learn how to recognize an overdose. They will also learn how to use fentanyl test strips, administer naloxone and other harm reduction steps.

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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

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.

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