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“It might be beneficial for Illinois DOT folks and Illinois leaders to speak with their counterparts in Missouri and see why they're able to, for example, maintain a roadway at a cost as much lower as Illinois,” said Baruch Feigenbaum, lead author of the report and senior managing director of transportation policy at Reason Foundation.
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Audio and summary Illinois bill would override local law to allow homeless living in all public parks – Wirepoints
April 14, 2026
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago Fiscal Crisis Worse Than Pre-Bankruptcy Detroit, HIV Surge and Public Health Threat From Open Borders Goes Unreported
April 10, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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
April 3, 2026
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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.
WBEZ and Chicago Sun-Times falsely blame Texas Gov. Abbott for 2020 to 2024 surge in Chicago Latino HIV, AIDS infections – Wirepoints Quickpoint
March 31, 2026
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Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
Gosh, ya think there was a consequence to all those years of using the Road Fund to pay for State Patrol overtime wages, and state employee and retiree medical bills, instead of roads-n-bridges?
Good thing that raising the motor-fuel tax and licensing fees fixed all that……
OBAMA stated that the infrastructue and all that jobs were shovel ready–but he did not get going on them.This is typical — DEMS do not know how to do anything.
Does anyone seriously believe that the problem with Illinois roads is some technical deficiency in surfacing materials and techniques? Or that Illinois’s increased cost per mile of comparable road built or resurfaced, when compared to other states, is due to Illinois using higher grades of materials and enforcing stronger building codes?
And don’t forget UNION costs
it is my personal belief that the roads are engineered to only last so long. This means more opportunity for bribes and payoffs to unions.