Chicago Weekly Crime Tracker – Wirepoints
May 7, 2024
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Weekly crime statistics from the Chicago Police Department: Report through 5/4/2024.
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Brazen election interference: Illinois Democrats retroactively change law to knock out Republican challengers. Surely, lawsuits must follow. – Wirepoints
May 7, 2024
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Gov. JB Pritzker calls it “ethics” reform.
Chicago needs more champions of literacy like Willie Wilson – Wirepoints
May 7, 2024
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It’s rare to see city leaders in Chicago take an open, unabashed stance on the collapse of literacy. To complain is deemed as too political, too racist or too anti-public schools. So it’s refreshing to see Willie Wilson, a successful businessman and leader of the black community, call for a literacy initiative “with the goal of getting 100% of Black students reading at grade level.”
Don’t fall for the “progressive-income-tax-for-property-tax-relief” tax swap referendum – Wirepoints
May 6, 2024
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While this new advisory referendum could be nothing more than a political distraction, it could also be that lawmakers are gauging Illinoisans’ appetite for another bite at a progressive income tax hike – this time with lower property taxes as a sweetener.
Pritzker doubles down with $827 million of taxpayer money for expansion by troubled electric vehicle maker, Rivian – Wirepoints
May 3, 2024
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At $1.5 million per job, the new incentive package from the state is at least 15 times the norm. For this much money, the state could have just handed out a million bucks to 827 people, instead of creating 550 jobs.
As long as people in southern Cook continue to elect criminals like Gus Savage, Mel Reynolds, and Jesse Jackson Junior, they are emphatically choosing their fate.
The federal government transitioned years ago from defined benefit (Civil Service) to defined contribution (Federal Employees Retirement System). Illinois could do the same.
The financially worst municipalities in suburban Chicago are African-American dominated. Why is that? Just askin’…
Most heavily relied on manufacturing that moved overseas.
An underfunded defined benefit pension is a Ponzi scheme. Underfunded retiree healthcare is a Ponzi scheme. Converting certain southwest Cook County suburbs from Republican to Democrat was one of the keys to Michael Madigan’s historic reign as House Speaker. The free money incentives the government is providing for home ownership is a problem for many that have no way to forecast their tax bill. The free money should come with a financial and debt analysis and projection of all the local,county, state, and Federal governments for each tax paid by the the homeowner. That is an almost impossible task at… Read more »