Tracy on Inspector General Opening: “We’ve been at an impasse” – The Illinoize

Sen. Jil Tracy is criticizing Democrats on the bicameral, bipartisan Legislative Ethics Commission for pushing a candidate that wasn’t recommended by a search committee. “The Republicans, basically, want to respect the process of the search committee,” Tracy said. “We want to respect that a citizen’s advisory group told us who they think the most qualified candidate is because, overwhelmingly, they favor the candidate that the Republicans [support.]”

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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

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.

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