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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.
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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.
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Waiting for the left to claim climate change causes food deserts.
That damn Whole Foods! What do they know about running a grocery store!?
I know liberals who believe in the Food Desert narrative…and every other narrative they’re supposed to believe in. It’s a mystery:(
Who causes “food deserts?” I’m pretty sure it’s the people who live there and steal, loot, rob and destroy everything. But as a democrat Pritzger has to blame someone other than those responsible.
Just more Illinois taxpayer money spent on Pritzkers 2024 Presidential campaign. Pritzker can boast about his ‘solution’ and the press will hide the causes that he created.
No more bail in less than a month…
SA office does not prosecute retail theft cases…
Police have a ‘Hands off – no pursuit’ policy…
You touch a shoplifter your more than likely to get charged yourself…
And they wonder why there are no takers for these stores…?
Yes, the typical IL pol response is to throw taxpayer money at the problem. But who would be foolish enough to open a grocery store in an area where shoplifting and armed robbery are commonplace?
Food deserts aren’t a real thing. There are often grocery stores no more than a 10-15 drive away. Even the term ‘food desert’ is a fake made up liberal term. The reason why the grocery store is 10-15 minutes away is because the local residents buy all their food at gas stations and corner stores, because they eat crappy garbage food. They aren’t making home cooked healthy meals using beans, rice and cheap meats, like other ethnicities. Food deserts don’t exist in hispanic or south asian neighborhoods.
Once again, the state defaults to using our money to paper over the real problem because it’s the easy news headline.
Total, 100 percent BS. This has nothing to do with groceries or food shortages or anything else food or poor people related. It is another handout to the greenie, phony global warming scammers. So the stores’ lower electric bills will lead to more food stores in the inner city? Can anyone stop laughing at this?
Minority owned Yellow Banana’s already getting $13.5 mil from city to re-open closed grocery stores in so called food deserts
JB thought the bill was about food desserts.
Food deserts exist where there are moral compass deserts. When more people walk out without paying than actually pay for their food, the stores close. Tax breaks don’t solve that problem. JB will never acknowledge this inconvenient truth. So now we have a new pretend program that will solve nothing.
It baffles me that there is such a concept. If a so called food desert exists its the consequence of something and odinarily an enterprising fellow would step in to take advantage of the situation and thereby eliminate the “desert.” Apparently this is not happening in these so called food deserts. Fred, you’ve gotta put your thinking cap on and earn your salary for a change. Why oh why doesn’t a member of the food desert community step up and open a grocery store? In the America of my youth this fellow would’ve made money hand over fist while eliminating… Read more »
Food Desert Bill Would Do Nothing To End Food Deserts
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_69d9556e-f97e-11ed-a192-d7ff4045d88f.html