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AFT President Randi Weingarten said, “Let’s be clear: Just as we have done with our health-care workers, we will fight on all fronts for the safety of our students and their educators.”
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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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Summary and audio linked here.
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.
WBEZ and Chicago Sun-Times falsely blame Texas Gov. Abbott for 2020 to 2024 surge in Chicago Latino HIV, AIDS infections – Wirepoints Quickpoint
March 31, 2026
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Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
It means–keep the children ignorant–therefore there will be a generation of idiots.
The teachers are supposed to be essential workers. Well their union representatives are not putting that forward.
A generation of idiots ignorant of history and reality, also unable to support themselves and therefore totally dependent on Big Government. This is what the psychopathic Democrats want
Defund the CPS. There, I’ve said it.
Fire the lazy child-hating criminals
Fire everyone of you now if you go on strike. Home school and private education abolishing the public school system is the best thing that could ever happen. I will be glad to give everyone of you teachers and union shi-s a box of nails and hammers to put the nails in your coffins. Bye bye teachers and your pensions, yes it will happen.