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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.
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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.
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This is exactly why we need to remove video games like Grand Theft Auto from stores. Once we do that the carjackings by minors will stop.
Concealed carry people taking out a dozen or so would be a far better way to stop the jackers. Imagine all the kindergarten graduation photos the news media could publish.
Hmmm….how much does she weigh?
The shocking thing isn’t that an eleven year old was arrested for carjacking. The shocking thing is that Lil Kim had that enterprising young man back on the street the next day. He’s the hero of the school yard now. Not that that he actually goes to school.
So was the carjacker in 5th grade, or 6th grade?
Most of the 5th and 6th graders in CPS are 17 or 18.