Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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Don Schaefer, executive vice president of the Mid-West Truckers Association, said regulators see truckers as easy pickings. "Truckers are not against a clean environment. Not at all,” Schaefer emphasized. “We don’t want regulators coming after the industry with a sledgehammer. Let’s be reasonable about it and we can work it out.”
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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
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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.
A California style ban on diesel trucks is an economic death wish.
With Democrats reasonableness never enters the equation. It’s their way or no way.
Nut job democrats could screw up a 1 car funeral. Always trying to find ways to raise costs, make employers spend more on ridiculous compliance requirements. Experts at attacking small and large businesses causing them to fold. Demanding, demanding, demanding with no thought about the consequences of their meddling. What a despicable group of politicians and those voters who support them.
Look at what a Democrat moron did to #BudLight. Destroyed a billion dollar brand overnight.
Poor, any more of your Punta Gorda repetitions and you are out.
I wonder if she’ll be held accountable and be out on her ear, or be celebrated at the WH? I hope the brand backlash was/is awesome. Anheuser-Busch has lost all respect for their customers. Also saw a sanitary napkin commercial claiming to comfortably fit everyone. The spot ends with a group of women standing in a line … and on the right is a guy. Here’s some news, Tampax: men cannot give birth or menstruate – simple biology and no man needs Tampax products. If a person needs those products, that person is a WOMAN. Trans women are MEN who… Read more »