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The festival’s programs include wellness activities facilitated by LGBTQ artists and healers, including family yoga and fan decorating, organizers said. Day-long activities include fan decorating, drag dress-up and makeovers. Everything will culminate in an all-ages, Slo ‘Mo dance party.
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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Hmmm…….I wasn’t aware the qwrrs could reproduce!
And if, just if, an organizer put together a straight “jam” and offered priority to white and straight vendors.
Can you imagine the outcry?
YUCK. No thanks
Jeez us criminy
Sodom & Gomorrah on steroids.