National Public Radio’s Debacle and the ‘Vibe Shift’ – Wirepoints
April 18, 2024
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Hopefully, all media will get the message, in Illinois, too.
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Growing property tax burdens make this state unlivable for too many Illinoisans – Wirepoints joins Tom Miller of WJPF Carbondale
April 18, 2024
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Ted joined Tom Miller of WJPF to talk about Illinois’ highest-in-the-nation property taxes, why lawmakers don’t want to touch the tax’s cost drivers, just how much Illinoisans’ tax burden has grown over the decades, why Gov. Pritzker failed to meet his promise to reform property taxes, and more.
Illinois education officials keep trying to hide their failures behind excuse of “higher test standards” – Wirepoints
April 17, 2024
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Illinois’ dismal education numbers – especially for minority students – are embarrassing to politicians and officials. But rather than admit there’s a problem with Illinois’ education system, they attack the state’s own standards for being “too high,” instead.
Wilmette protects government speech…but not free speech. – Wirepoints on AM 560 Chicago’s Morning Answer
April 17, 2024
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Ted joined Dan and Amy to talk about the free speech controversy brewing in Wilmette due to the city’s refusal to fly a religious freedom flag, the city’s left-wing excesses and the growing culture war, the latest money spent on the illegal immigrant crisis, and more.
Chicago Weekly Crime Tracker – Wirepoints
April 17, 2024
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Weekly crime statistics from the Chicago Police Department: Report through 4/14/2024.
Greta Thunberg’s speech to the UN was passionate, but sorry, I’m more worried about my big property tax bill next month than what coastlines will look like in 2050. There’s isn’t anything our governments can do about climate change except to put a tax on gas, which I’m sure they are itching to do for obvious reasons.
This train wreck is getting better every day. Strike baby strike, show lightfoot who’s boss!
You can watch rally with your little popcorn bowl, as 1%’ers berrnie & sharkey rev up the mostly white $6-figure-socialists$–ctu members with black& hispanic seiu members on stage as backdrops, with desperate for ratings press (especially npr & wttw) gobbling it up….and sure because they have a monopoly on cps will get 100% of what there shoving it down are home owners throats for….because in the crazy reality chicagoans live in, spending $21,000 per student isnt enough?? Thought they werent allowed to strike for adding nurses, libriarians, work conditions??
Of course they do, these two idiots LOVE spending other people’s money and could honestly give two rats patoots about your own personal finances