Join Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski and Founder Mark Glennon along with guest Devin Jones on the sixth episode of Wirepoints Podcast: The Dialogue. Devin Jones provides a conservative insight on addressing the challenges faced by inner city Chicagoans.
Wirepoints recent pieces on Chicago:
- Chicago’s homicide problem dwarfs those in New York, Los Angeles
- Families continue to flee Chicago Public Schools as it loses 14,000 students in 2022, more than 100,000 since 2000
- Wirepoints Podcast: The Dialogue – Episode 3 – Critical Race Theory now drives everything in Chicago-area government
- Downtown Chicago is nearly empty. Pictures Show it
Hopefully, all media will get the message, in Illinois, too.
Ted joined Tom Miller of WJPF to talk about Illinois’ highest-in-the-nation property taxes, why lawmakers don’t want to touch the tax’s cost drivers, just how much Illinoisans’ tax burden has grown over the decades, why Gov. Pritzker failed to meet his promise to reform property taxes, and more.
Ted joined Dan and Amy to talk about the free speech controversy brewing in Wilmette due to the city’s refusal to fly a religious freedom flag, the city’s left-wing excesses and the growing culture war, the latest money spent on the illegal immigrant crisis, and more.
Weekly crime statistics from the Chicago Police Department: Report through 4/14/2024.
Sounds silly, the issues that matter for black like everyone else is crime, property taxes and income.
Great interview, this gentleman gives me some hope! He is not viewing issues through an ideological “lens”, but more via a ” common – sense ” lens. It’s a modern – day tragedy that the Black community has been so taken advantage of – and marginalized- by liberal dem policies, starting with the “Great Society” programs of the 60’s…
This was excellent. I really appreciate Devin Jones’ perspective. He makes so many good points: the lady who moves because of the parking tickets; the property taxes rising (because the city’s expenses never decline) while the value of the property decreases; CRT is a distraction–the kids can’t READ! Etc. Excellent. Maybe in a year you can have a follow-up interview with him.
Jennifer- Yes, we will have in back. I have endless respect for people like him who are in the trenches and battling like he does.
Agreed! There are many like him,, doing the “heavy lifting”, but we never hear about them. Please have him on more often, if it would be much appreciated!
The parking ticket saga was *very* illuminating. A “small” issue, but these small indignities mount and fester, eventually becoming intolerable, and then still another disgruntled citizen “votes with their feet” and leaves. Dealing with the Byzantine “Chicago Way” is not too dissimilar from the way people lived in the old communist East Germany – even the quiet and politically passive East Germans had had enough, and then, BOOM…!!! No more East Germany…