Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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The southwest suburban mayor made the remarks Monday during a village board of trustees meeting after Arab American residents requested that the village adopt a cease-fire resolution. Speakers presented a petition with more than 800 signatures calling for the board to follow Chicago’s lead in passing a resolution. Mayor Keith Pekau said he instead agreed with the official U.S. position, which is “to support a two-state solution and that Hamas is a terrorist organization.”
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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
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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.
“More Palestinians live in Cook County than any other county in the country, a recent WBEZ analysis found.” Nice cherry picked statistic WBEZ. Cook County is the second largest county in the country with 5M people. It also has one of the largest Polish, Italian, Mexican and Chinese populations of counties in the US that’s by virtue of its size you lefties. I thought there was a cease fire already in place, what happened to the one that was in place. When you violate a cease fire you don’t get to choose under what terms it gets put back in… Read more »
I often wonder if today’s immigrants might become more assimilated if they migrated to rural counties instead of urban areas.
Same for others living in crime-ridden neighborhoods with failing schools.
Finally, a public official that says it out loud “ If you love Hamas so much, you are free to go join them. This is not a concern of an American with myriad problems of its own. That people who have been fighting each other since Jesus wore booties continue to do so is not our problem. “
Hamas, first release all remaining hostages, including a 1 year old baby, then a cease fire.
Otherwise, IDF will turn all of you into dust!!
You can’t do good without courage, its that simple.
Boy-O-Boy…gotta love Orland Park!