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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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Let’s hope that Trump eliminates funding of NPR after he is reelected. I’ll gladly contribute more to WFMT for the classical music but suspect that amid the forces of the free market the useless and deeply biased Pravda rest of them will collapse.
Gimme a tissue. WBEZ, along with the NPR stuff it carries, are the most unapologetically biased news sources in Illinois.
WBEZ has mountains of woke shows/articles on Black & Latino equity bs issues. It would be revealing to know if anyone in Black or Latino communities are dialing in? I would imagine NOT. I would imagine young folks aren’t tuning in either…..Just the same upper-income old white lib virtue signaler Evanston types.
Spot on. The same limousine liberals who haven’t spoken to a black person in years besides the clerk at Whole Foods and the only Hispanic person they talk to is the maid. Yet they smugly consider themselves ‘Well informed’ about minority concerns because WBEZ and NPR tell them these concerns and issues.
Washington Post: White liberals dumb themselves down when they speak to black people, a new study contends You have recently joined a book club. Before each meeting, one member of the literary collective sends an email to the club secretary offering a few thoughts on the assigned text. This month, it’s your turn to compose the brief review. A new study suggests that the words you use may depend on whether the club secretary’s name is Emily (“a stereotypically White name,” as the study says) or Lakisha (“a stereotypically Black name”). If you’re a white liberal writing to Emily, you… Read more »
Go woke, go broke!
WBEZ local programming tends to be preachy progressive lessons in Woke issues.
WBEZ programing deliberately ignores interests of its majority “old people” audience demographic.
WBEZ ignores our urgent need for factual reporting of local news, without progressive political editorializations. WBEZ too often champions our failing public government agencies and our incompetent politicians.
WBEZ’s primary mission is to sing praises of all things Woke, many things fundamentally transgressive to average Chicagoan.
No wonder listenership has declined dramatically. No surprise listener-support contributions fall short of fund-raising goals.