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Mayor Brandon Johnson’s deputy chief of staff Cristina Pacione-Zayas acknowledged hard choices lie ahead for the city as the $150 million Johnson budgeted for the migrant response this year is slated to be spent by April. “Every day we’re in meetings, on calls with the state, with the county, to figure out what the long-term plan is to get through the calendar year together,” Pacione-Zayas said. She did not say whether closing shelters or making budget cuts midyear was on the table.
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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Just wait until we get closer to the DNC in August. Expect Texas to send a lot more.
The are called Criminal Illegal Aliens. Get it right.
It is said that they are being kept out of sight, but are definitely still there. Would that surprise anyone in our “ transparent “ IL?
THOUGHT PRITZER AND JOHNSON WERE FOOTING THE BILL…….LOL
Wonder if their disappearance had anything to do with the DNC committee being in town to search out neighborhoods for offsite activities during the convention. Hope they find a fun place in Englewood!
Wait until the “ Potemkin villages “ begin popping up around the DNC once the weather breaks. Like SF did when they rolled out the red ( how appropriate) carpet for the world’s largest fetty producer, CHI will put a smiley face on the cesspool of crime and corruption it has become.