Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
May 6, 2026
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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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.
Rich Miller speaks true in his fiery assault on the political stooges running the jobs-for-family-and-pals scheme that is modern day Metra. The worst of it is the ‘nobody knows nuttin’ attitude surrounding what must be the Taj Mahal of locomotive parts storage. At this rate, Metra will wind up spending more on the building than on the parts that it is supposed to keep in this climate-controlled storage building. I wonder who held title to the building before Merta showed up with the taxpayers’ checkbook. Big Jim Derwinski also refences his intentionally created ‘Fiscal Cliff’ once again. Here is what… Read more »
And no one knows anything!
Metra did not blow millions, they enriched their political cronies who are kicking back money to them.