Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Illinois Budget’s New Taxes Face Serious Constitutional Challenges
June 12, 2026
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A mess of uncertainty and litigation is sure to follow.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
They sound like inmates at Marion FSP. Nobody cares about us, the food is bad. I’ve always thought CPS only functions as a day prison for our most cherished asset.
“This story was published in partnership with Medill Media Teens, a program of Teach for Chicago Journalism at Medill School at Northwestern University, which provides training, mentorship, and publication opportunities to Chicago Public School students.” Hahahaha hahahah, northwestern, a former glorious school, is reduced to journalisming the complaints of CPS students: obese children complain the free food isn’t good enough, hormonal teenagers now cry for tax payer funded therapy, and misogyny is the reason for the dress code. No kids, the food is free because your parents are too lazy to feed you themselves, every teenager that ever lived deals… Read more »
A) journalism is a tough business
B) a J-School needs to think about its future
C) increasingly, trained journalists have limited opportunities at low pay
D) Medill has a lot of tenured profs who despair about media jobs at shrinking newspapers
E) These profs aren’t that far from retirement
F) Maybe, just maybe, we can get state and federal money to pay tuition for those high-school students who read and write at grade level before launching them, complete with masters degrees, into a profession with few opportunities.