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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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Bundle the aggregate value of stolen items into a felony.
This needs to happen before someone (likely the perp) gets hurt.
Is there no way to get this fellow a “speedy trial,” immediately after he’s arrested? If he’s jailed for, say, 30 days, isn’t that enough time to try the other cases?
Anyhow, this report provides another reason to refrain from using Amazon. There are plenty of other vendors out there.
If he has got 25 stolen packages in the car he is probably guilty of some kind of felony.
Give Davenport the addresses of Gen Ass. members so they can participate in what they’ve wrought.
But he votes Democratic so it’ll continue.
Democrats love criminals.