Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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"What makes the U.S. such an outlier when it comes to the high price of prescription drugs? The uniquely American phenomenon of pharmaceutical advertising."
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Audio and summary Illinois bill would override local law to allow homeless living in all public parks – Wirepoints
April 14, 2026
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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.
Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago Fiscal Crisis Worse Than Pre-Bankruptcy Detroit, HIV Surge and Public Health Threat From Open Borders Goes Unreported
April 10, 2026
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Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades
April 3, 2026
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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.
Dick Durbin should disclose why he blocked the release of the Epstein flight manifests. Dick Durbin should disclose why he voted not to export illegal immigrant criminals. Dick Durbin should disclose why he helped spring a drug dealer serving a life sentence that murdered an innocent woman in a road rage incident shortly thereafter. Dick Durbin should go away.
Maybe capping allowable profits lover actual cost. But he probably owns stock in these companies
I find it odd to actually agree with the Turdbin on this one. Not sure he understands that stopping pharma ads will finally kill off CNN and MSDNC, as much of the advertising there is Big Pharma….
Drug ads are simply in-kind payments for favorable media coverage. How many people do you really think care about or are affected by half the fringe drugs that are advertised?
Yeah, DICK – because that’s the biggest issue facing Illinois. Useless
It distracts from the real problems he and the other progressives have cooked up. A real sleight of hand, of which Dems are the masters of.