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Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez (25th), Mayor Brandon Johnson’s handpicked Housing Committee chair, says he arrived at a Friday night rally outside City Hall after an American flag was burned to protest U.S. support for Israel. But some of his colleagues don’t buy it, and are talking about calling a special City Council meeting to censure him.
Summary and audio linked here.
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.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Censorship of any kind is always wrong. This country was built on free speech.
As long as it does not cause bodily harm.
When you filibuster the comments with blanket repetition, it’s you doing the censorship, which we don’t allow.