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A widely reported study about the impact on Illinois of recent federal budget cuts is flimflam, says Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon.
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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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.
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I recently had to go to Springfield for business; it was my first time there in decades. Man, the Democrats have absolutely wrecked the place. It’s just a shadow of what it used to be.Downtown is basically abandoned. I’d guess at least half the buildings are vacant. They let government workers stay home during COVID, and most never came back. There are vagrants and homeless people on every corner. The smell of weed is everywhere and overpowering. Hardly any restaurants are still open, retail is nonexistent, and the streets are empty even during business hours.For some reason, about 10% of… Read more »
Just there, Springfield, Illinois, to visit the Lincoln Museum. Parked and tried to,figure out the parking meter situation and found out that the meters have not been in operation since 2021. No money to fix them, too many broken. The guy I asked just shrugged his shoulders, shook his head and said it was just Springfield being Springfield.
Wow! Great post.
Like the protesters that roll around on the ground as if mortally wounded when tapped by a policeman and told to step back, so do the Dems that magnify every step Trump tries to take to clean house and mitigate everything they do to continue their DSA agenda.
And the WOKE MEDIA PRINTS/ BROADCASTS THE LIES !!! They are handed the Democrats narratives and RUN WITH THEM !!!
Illinois is sinking it’s. own boat, blaming others is just the Democrat game plan.