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A native of the Cabrini-Green rowhomes, now-former Ald. Walter Burnett said former residents of the rowhouses often return to the area after moving away or being released from prison, reigniting old conflicts. “All these outside folks coming to the neighborhood, I think it’s a detriment to the neighborhood,” Burnett said. “It’s hard to stop those incidents when folks are drinking or getting high and they get into it.”
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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“There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps… then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved.” Jesse Jackson
It’s also hard to stop when Homie jerks ShotSpotter away because it catches the wrong folks ( in his estimation ), and the police are attacked when they go there after being summoned to straighten the whole mess out. How’s that Violence Interruption/ Social Services Responders program working out?