National Public Radio’s Debacle and the ‘Vibe Shift’ – Wirepoints
April 18, 2024
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Hopefully, all media will get the message, in Illinois, too.
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Growing property tax burdens make this state unlivable for too many Illinoisans – Wirepoints joins Tom Miller of WJPF Carbondale
April 18, 2024
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Ted joined Tom Miller of WJPF to talk about Illinois’ highest-in-the-nation property taxes, why lawmakers don’t want to touch the tax’s cost drivers, just how much Illinoisans’ tax burden has grown over the decades, why Gov. Pritzker failed to meet his promise to reform property taxes, and more.
Illinois education officials keep trying to hide their failures behind excuse of “higher test standards” – Wirepoints
April 17, 2024
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Illinois’ dismal education numbers – especially for minority students – are embarrassing to politicians and officials. But rather than admit there’s a problem with Illinois’ education system, they attack the state’s own standards for being “too high,” instead.
Wilmette protects government speech…but not free speech. – Wirepoints on AM 560 Chicago’s Morning Answer
April 17, 2024
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Ted joined Dan and Amy to talk about the free speech controversy brewing in Wilmette due to the city’s refusal to fly a religious freedom flag, the city’s left-wing excesses and the growing culture war, the latest money spent on the illegal immigrant crisis, and more.
Chicago Weekly Crime Tracker – Wirepoints
April 17, 2024
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Weekly crime statistics from the Chicago Police Department: Report through 4/14/2024.
When one chooses to attack the messenger and not the message, they expose intellectual deficiencies. Lets not make it personnel Mark, both of us do understand.
When conservatives turn to striking fundemental priciples of State sovereignty and blindness to constitutional provisions of the Contracts Clause and Supremacy Clause, and ex post facto, all for the sake of fiscal convienance. How radicalism prospers indeed. Lets amend the State Constitution in the face of budget struggles wirepoints suggests. When do Americans sacrifice fundemental values and principles for budget convienance? Americans and conservatives stand by their values and laws in the face of adversity. At times it takes courage, albeit in crisis, to stand by our fundemental values;still, it is not courageous to run from our values, for the… Read more »
Mindless nonsense. The Constitution means what courts say it means, and nobody has ever suggested defying a court order. The Bankruptcy Code, its amendments, the ex post facto clause, the contracts clause and all the rest will be duly interpreted and those interpretations will be followed.
Defying a court order? Who said that? I sure didnt. And Nonsense Mark, is to ignore or dissmiss that you fail to confront.
You fundamentally just don’t understand.
Public employee unions oppose bankruptcy because it would force an encounter with financial reality and lead to an apportionment of existing pension assets among ALL pension beneficiaries. It would also put the future cost of retiree health care out there for everyone to see. The result would be cutbacks of benefits for those already retired and diminished expectations for those still working. Since the courts insist on calling all these expectations “contract rights” we are left with the bankruptcy as the only solution. Delaying bankruptcy simply gives public employees and retirees time to deplete further the existing funds and to… Read more »