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“What’s going on,” a man asked an officer as CPD’s helicopter hovered overhead and blue lights flooded the intersection of Belmont and Clark. “Same sh*t every night,” the cop replied, raising her hands in exasperation.
Summary and audio linked here.
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.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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They are just upset that they don’t have enough environmental equity and transportation equity. That’s what Lori thinks they need
Those trees just aren’t growing fast enough.
Lori should have them party at her place, they would get along well. Lori likes to get on stages and scream F’ you at people too. I don’t think I’d want to see Lightfoot twerking on a cop car. But everything else about Lightfoot’s behavior is pretty consistent with these summer get-togethers, no?
I love the parade photos! I had an epiphany looking at Arbuckle and MK marching! Arbuckle and Jason shop at the same mens store. Both disguised as a picnic table.
It’s that F’ng Clarence Thomas’ fault, not the policies of Lori, Kim and Tim.
Pride Parade Weekend Violence/Crime-Thug Mob Wilding Shit-Show Continues Into Monday
Time to end this annual embarrassment that brings all the wrong people to Lake View