It shouldn’t have taken a PhD in economics to notice this – Wirepoints Quickpoint
May 17, 2024
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What a representation of Chicago’s plight.
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Twelve Illinois Congressmen vote against bill to give federal custody to non-citizen defendants charged or convicted with assaulting cops – Wirepoints Quickpoint
May 17, 2024
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The bill passed despite their votes in response to certain incidents where local prosecutors are thought to have been too lenient with non-citizens assaulting cops.
The Chicago Teachers Union Plays Hooky – Wirepoints in the Wall Street Journal*
May 17, 2024
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The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board cited Wirepoints’ analysis of Chicago student proficiency data in their latest piece condemning the Chicago Teachers Union’s outrageous contract demands…all while a vast majority of Chicago’s children graduate unable to read at grade level.
Gov. Pritzker is using the threat of budget cuts to get more tax hikes passed – Wirepoints joins Tom Miller of WJPF Carbondale
May 17, 2024
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Ted joined Tom Miller of WJPF to talk about the details of Gov. Pritzker’s proposed $52 billion budget, why the state is struggling now that federal covid dollars have run out, the controversy surrounding Tier 2 government pensions, why Illinois’ expensive education system fails to teach children to read, the outrageous demands of the Chicago Teachers Union, and more.
Public education staffing has ballooned over the years…yet kids still can’t read – Wirepoints on with Jeff Daly of WZUS Decatur Radio
May 17, 2024
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Ted joined Jeff Daly to discuss how politicians can never spend enough on education despite there being no accountability for that spending, the growth of education staffing across Illinois, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s $1 billion demand for Chicago schools, why Gov. Pritzker is providing $830 million in taxpayer subsidies to struggling EV carmaker Rivian, and more.
Radical Marxists (AKA Democrats) do not know what the word respect means. Rich Miller is a JOKE. The Dem’s never reach across the aisle or compromise.
Why do Democrats need to reach across the aisle? They have a super-super majority based on gerrymandered districts that look like shrived up pieces of bacon. They harvest the ballots months before voting day and count them so they know exactly how many more they need to win on election day.
Let the Dem’s own it all. The feckless Republicans should just sit back (which is kind of what they have been doing for a long time) and let them further destroy this State. His entire article is cognitive dissonance at its finest. They gerrymandered the hell out of every district to help them keep their supermajority and now they are going to let inmates vote – to help them even more. For a party that claims the demographics have changed (which they have to some degree) you would never know it by all of the ways (Vote by Mail, Gerrymandering,… Read more »
No were are nowhere near as blue as they claim that’s why they have to gerrymander and give inmates the vote.
Dems do own all of this. For decades. And no one cares. There is no karma, or cosmic reckoning. The state will just continue to suck until Republicans take back over by harvesting 3.5 million ballots between now and November 2024. It’s really as simple as that.