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Summary and audio linked here.
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.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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You have to hand it to the Tribune for their courageous skill and churn out useless and outdated news. Tom Dart now has bravely come forward with a follow up on Chicago celebrity John Wayne Gacey! It’s been 44 years in the making! Never say Tom isn’t busy when not flooding the streets with crime. One wonders why? Maybe they’ll claim JWG represents Caucasian Values or his murder spree was blatant cultural appropriation? It’s nearly perfect, blame the dead!
I scratched the Chicago Art Institute off my list. Just another reason not to go downtown anymore!
Only the approved narrative can be supported, or good news about the Biden administration. Since there is a total absence of good news we’re fed continuous mush from mush heads.
The “Look How Biased The Media Is!” clickbait must work because even I read the entire column and I’m sick of that topic rehased over and over again. We all know the media is biased, let’s move on. The docent story didn’t get picked up because the media knows it looks bad. Then when conservative media picked up the story, the main stream media must now purposely ignore it, otherwise they think they’re giving legitimacy to racists and deplorables. They regularly admit this: remember NPR saying they weren’t going to waste listeners’ time about the Hunter Biden laptop because it’s… Read more »
AIC’s letter to the fired docents also cautioned them not to speak to media, not discuss their “firing” from their volunteer docent positions. And as docile civilized upper-middle class folks of liberal leanings, these docents have mostly obeyed. AIC didn’t disclose their letter to media; it was eventually leaked by a handful of disgruntled former docents. I suspect that AIC has issued “cease and desist” letters to those disobedient fired volunteers, chastising them for damaging the institution. We are living in an “Alice in Wonderland” construct, where formerly bad behavior is now acceptable, and good behavior now belittled at minimum,… Read more »
I noticed Bryne’s post mentioned Neil Steinberg’s column. Nice to see Neil still has a public platform where he can beclown himself regularly.
Reverse the scenario, a white person becomes the director of an institution and then fires a 100% black volunteer group and then replaces that group with 90% white, paid employees. The fireworks show would be epic.
The media only reports what the Democrats have approved. The other side results in fear. Fear of looking because you know snooping can get your life sideways. Just like the Hunter Biden quagmire. Nobody will go there because the big guy is in the middle. The Chicago media are mice! How long before they report on Fauci animal abuse.