Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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"It's hard to fathom that we're going to be losing recognition status as a school, while we currently sit at zero positive cases and zero quarantines," said Cowden-Herrick Superintendent Seth Schuler.
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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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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.
I’m glad that these school districts have courageously defied Pritzker’s tyrannical mask mandate. People should always be able to choose for themselves whether they want to wear a mask. Mask wearing should never be mandated. All schools in Illinois should follow them by not enforcing the mask mandate and seeking accreditation elsewhere if the state retaliates by revoking state recognition. We can’t allow mandatory mask wearing to be a requirement to attending school or working in schools in Illinois. School boards need to recognize that they only answer to the voters of their district if they are public. If they… Read more »