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Assistance efforts have been hampered by poor intergovernmental communication, a lack of Spanish-speaking staff, not enough funding and overburdened volunteers. Overcrowded police stations have forced some migrants to shelter in tents outside. Volunteers have blasted City Hall’s controversial plan to build winterized tent camps, with alderpeople and neighbors pushing back on efforts to set up those shelters in their areas.
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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Gee, the last time I flew I had to que in a security line, have the T S A go thru my shorts, provide documentation and pay for the bad experience as well. What’s wrong with me?
First Class/Coach/Baggage or just hanging on the landing gear?