With Limited Internet Access, Elderly Chicagoans Struggle To Get Vaccinated — Even With ‘A Village’ Of Relatives Helping Them – Block Club Chicago

Said Liz King, a South Carolina resident who rounded up community organizers, health care workers and loved ones in a quest to get her elderly family member in South Shore vaccinated, “Without her having her own email address, a number where text messages could get to her or any online savvy, she was getting left out of these loops... I feel disappointment, I feel sad and I feel very anxious for everybody who’s still going through the same hoop-jumping process."

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Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades

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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