Given where Chicago is right now this new stadium proposal is a bad idea and a bad deal – Wirepoints on The Chicago Way with John Kass
April 26, 2024
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Ted was on The Chicago Way with John Kass and Jeff Carlin to discuss the proposed $5 billion lakefront stadium project proposed by the Chicago Bears & Mayor Brandon Johnson, why Chicago is struggling compared to other metro areas across the country, why the city might or might not go the way of Detroit, and more.
Some Illinois lawmakers continue to deny that covid aid and other federal stimulus bailed the state out of its fiscal mess. But a look at past and projected revenues from COGFA shows just how much the bailouts blew out the state’s revenues. And now that they’re over, how much harder it will be for Illinois revenues to grow.
Election integrity – both real and perceived – is essential to government’s legitimacy and stability. Illinois, like the rest of the nation, better fix its problems now.
Ted joined Dan and Amy to talk about Chicago’s latest bond offering, why Chicago’s dismal home value growth is due to poor policies, the next $70 million to be spent on migrants, the 9% salary hikes demanded by the CTU, and why Illinois lawmakers voting to stop Chicago’s selective enrollment schools from being closed is hypocritical.
Weekly crime statistics from the Chicago Police Department: Report through 4/21/2024.
Pissing away money that Illinois simply doesn’t have in order to virtue signal. Lovely. The climate won’t even notice.
JB the Hutt thinks that everyone is a trust fund baby, just like he is.
#ClimateScam
It’s not just virtue signal but are for headlines for Pritzker’s future desires for higher office acting out the Democrat party mantra of EVs using other peoples, Illinois taxpayers, money. While it seems, based upon Ford’s slashing EV production for example, that the public is not enthusiastic about the switch to EVs. However the Democrats are rock solid about the so called “clean energy” and despite being unable to scientifically justify the need the media none the less, as always, follows the progressives pattern cheering for the likes of Pritzker et al. Another headline for Pritzker and by the way… Read more »
Another downside to EV’s – Weight of the vehicles wearing out tires.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/electric-vehicles-great-mileage-pricey-141209778.html
IL will experience a lot of pain when the green energy industry collapses in several years.
Pritzker’s announcements yield a collective yawn. No one believes the promises and nobody cares about these companies. He is increasingly a laughingstock, and it’s got to be killing the big guy.