Matt Rosenberg was at a Breakthrough Ideas Town Hall in Glen Ellyn last night discussing the dangers of the SAFE-T Act along with Will County Judge Dave Carlson, State’s Attorney Bob Berlin, DuPage County Sheriff Jim Mendrick and Pastor Corey Brooks.
Matt covered Wirepoints’ most-recent pieces covering the problems of the Act:
- Threatening Illinoisans’ safety: Six major flaws in the SAFE-T Act’s end to cash bail
- Five more things wrong with Illinois’ SAFE-T Act
Wirepoints also provided a one-pager to attendees. Download a PDF copy here.
A set of state lawmakers want to extend CPS’ current school closing moratorium to February 1, 2027 – the same year CPS is set to transition to a fully-elected school board. That means schools like Manley High School, with capacity for more than 1,000 students but enrollment of just 78, can’t be closed for anther three years. The school spends $45,000 per student, but just 2.4% of students read at grade level.
Hopefully, all media will get the message, in Illinois, too.
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.
Hard to believe this is going to happen!! Where is common sense? The people who law this in may have their own protection but the average citizen does not.
Hopefully a dem pol who voted for this will be a victim of a repeat offender who should have been in jail.
I attended this meeting. One big take away….. Do not vote for any legislator that voted for this bill
Which in very simple terms is, all democrats