“I continue to think that success stories from tough communities are super important,” author Matt Rosenberg told Wirepoints founder Mark Glennon and President Ted Dabrowski on their podcast, The Dialogue. “From what I can see, conservative values are alive and thriving in minority communities in Chicago.”
Their discussion touched on several successes, particularly the rebirth of the Pullman community and the Chicago Neighborhoods Association, before Rosenberg got into the problems facing the greater City of Chicago.
Among them, he described, “Our schools are utterly failing – our public schools, K-12 – and that strikes particularly hard on Black and Latino families. It’s a grave issue and it has been festering decade after decade.”
Listen to more of their conversation now, as Mark and Ted sit down with Author Matt Rosenberg to discuss his new book What Next, Chicago? Notes of a Pissed-Off Native Son.
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The bill passed despite their votes in response to certain incidents where local prosecutors are thought to have been too lenient with non-citizens assaulting cops.
The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board cited Wirepoints’ analysis of Chicago student proficiency data in their latest piece condemning the Chicago Teachers Union’s outrageous contract demands…all while a vast majority of Chicago’s children graduate unable to read at grade level.
Ted joined Tom Miller of WJPF to talk about the details of Gov. Pritzker’s proposed $52 billion budget, why the state is struggling now that federal covid dollars have run out, the controversy surrounding Tier 2 government pensions, why Illinois’ expensive education system fails to teach children to read, the outrageous demands of the Chicago Teachers Union, and more.
Ted joined Jeff Daly to discuss how politicians can never spend enough on education despite there being no accountability for that spending, the growth of education staffing across Illinois, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s $1 billion demand for Chicago schools, why Gov. Pritzker is providing $830 million in taxpayer subsidies to struggling EV carmaker Rivian, and more.
Reading the book now. It’s good. He correctly identifies the problems. I am looking forward to finishing it to see how he would solve it. There is an ironic line he typed which I have always thought, Democrats will vote for a socialist or communist over (God-forbid) a Republican….
Listened to the entire podcast. Big business is being hampered by two things; reactionary social media and their own corporate attorneys that only see downside risk.
Little we do (or fail to do) is without risk. And with so many lawyers and elected judges and ignorant juries, business and personal risk has become sort of random. Pregnancy, floods, tornados, potholes. Not to mention every variety of scammer and crook, including most politicians and other psychopaths. We used to have value systems based on a shared history and/or faith. Each was a mix of fable and fact … but they contributed to a consensus that made the late 20th Century livable for most Americans. Now we highlight the flaws of Jefferson and Churchill and ignore those of… Read more »
Interesting conversation. It may be encouraging to cite NY’s election of Eric Adams. However, as one who, in the “heartland”, occasionally listens to a NYC chat show, Rita Cosby, on WABC, I can report that many New Yawkers are highly skeptical of his abilities, based upon his history. All hat, no cattle, not unlike the Massillon, Ohio, fraud Chicago voters fell for to their regret. At least I hope they regret it. As for hoping mega donors pitch in to bail out the city, forget it. Mega donors are too busy destroying Chicago’s heritage by extravagantly funding Obummer’s selfie in… Read more »