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“We don’t have a lot of food or a real shelter, but the bus is warm for the night,” Wilfrian Roja Rosales said. “We sleep on the floor and chairs waiting for the opportunity to have shelter space for us single men.”
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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With CTA ridership still significantly down, CTA can repurpose its idle buses for migrant housing, claim its housed migrants as “new transit customers”. Win-win!
Article in Newsweek says migrants are leaving NY for other states and #1 destination is IL. Over 2600 plane tickets issued for IL. So BJ’s plan to limit buses won’t stop migrants coming from NY. Good move by Mayor Adams.
Hmm, maybe the CTA could now collect lodging fees from the Feds since the covid money has run out.
IL and Chicago better get what funding they can from Biden this year, because if Trump’s elected, it seems he won’t be into funding for illegal immigrants unless it’s for deportation.
I don’t believe Trump will be elected. First of all, I think there’s only a 1 in 5 chance Trump could legitimately win for various different reason. He threaded the needle in 2016 before Election day turned into ‘ballot harvesting season’. None of those states have gone Republican since (except GA, but not AZ, WI, PA). And if Trump does win, they’re not going to let him take office. The prosecutor in the FL criminal trial against Trump filed in court today some paperwork regarding presidential immunity, that argues “…the Nation would have no recourse to deter a President from… Read more »