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Wirepoints on the nascent Chicago School Board: ‘A draft map released last week is gerrymandered by race’
As the creation of a Chicago School Board is underway the school board district the city has created has been questioned.
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Second City Cop: 'Nobody wants this job (cop) that has half a brain'
Last week’s disturbing tweet by the 16th and 17th District Chicago Police Scanner said that the city’s 25th District had eight police beats down one recent night, “meaning had no one assigned to patrol or respond to calls in the area…”
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Beginning a truthful conversation about crime in Chicago
Alderman Ray Lopez teams up with Wirepoints to advance data-driven approach to combating crime
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Flannery: Chicago Teacher Union’s ‘response was f*** Wirepoints’
Mike Flannery of Fox 32 said when he posed questions to the Chicago Teachers Union about empty schools described in a recent Wirepoints article, a union official cursed at the group.
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OP-ED: Chicago wants to attract Texas businesses…good luck with that
It’s crazy, considering the facts, but Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot actually thinks she can battle Texas for people and companies.
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Dabrowski: Cities 'struggling under the weight of skyrocketing pension costs'
During a news conference alongside Illinois House Republicans, Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski echoed calls for much-needed legislation to amend existing pension laws to solve the deepening pension crisis in the cities of Illinois.
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Dabrowski angry about D.C. bailout, says that 'Illinois lawmakers can kick the can once again'
Illinois is receiving a $25 million federal bailout from Washington, which has rubbed some conservatives the wrong way.
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Wirepoints: 'COVID’s impact on Illinois finances wasn’t as bad as early projections'
Fiscal government watchdog Wirepoints is pointing out the numbers simply don’t add up when it comes to the government’s American Rescue Plan.
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Data on hospital admissions, comorbidities, can help assess Illinois COVID-19 situation
Wirepoints released data on COVID situations, one of which reports in a tweet that “Illinois #COVID hospitalizations are down 82% since their peak in November and are now below the summer lows. COVID deaths are collapsing as a result, down also by 81% from their highs in December.”
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Ted Dabrowski illuminates growing debt of Illinois
Former Vice President of Policy for the Illinois Policy Institute Ted Dabrowski posted some messages and graphs on Twitter revealing the growing pension debt in the state of Illinois.
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Wirepoints: Cook County Treasurer Pappas 'a refreshing break from the past'
Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas tells it like it is, which is commendable for a Democrat, says Wirepoints founder Mark Glennon.
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From Prairie State Wire
Wirepoints makes a data-backed argument about why Illinoisans 'can and must get back to work'
When Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed off on the stay-at-home order that essentially shut off Illinois' economy five weeks ago, few could argue with his reasoning. Now, though, a government watchdog group claims the current reality warrants opening the state back up.
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From Prairie State Wire
Illinois has enough ventilators for COVID-19 patients, according to state's data
If Gov. J.B. Pritzker gets the 4,000 ventilators he's requested, Illinois could end up with 2,280 more ventilators than it needs under worst-case scenario projections for the coronavirus crisis in Illinois, according to an analysis of recently released data from the state.
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Desperate measures for desperate times – Chicago's big bond sell-off
Chicago officials are moving to sell off billions of dollars in bonds, which, according to Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski, is an appropriately desperate move designed to buy the city some time to come up with a more sustainable solution to its economic crisis.
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Wirepoints: Teachers' contract deal will increase pressure on tax base, driving even more Chicagoans away
With junk credit and a broke city to fall back on, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) will have to cover the costs of a new teachers’ contract through higher property taxes. That bill will amount to an estimated $1.5 billion over the next five years, according to an analysis by Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner of Wirepoints. And, they say, the estimate is on the low side.
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Wirepoints: Why no discussion of CTU pension debt in strike negotiations?
As the Chicago Teachers Union and the city finalize an agreement – maybe – to end this month's strike, an online news outlet wants to know why teacher pension debt hasn't come up during negotiations.
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Wirepoints: Illinois labor laws prioritize teachers unions over students
As Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) educators appear poised to walk out on strike for the third time in seven years, a Wirepoints report identifies Illinois as having some of the “most anti-taxpayer labor laws” in the U.S.
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Council’s Progressive Caucus Tax proposals would set us back over 100 years, financial expert says
A truckload of new taxes proposed by Chicago City Council’s Progressive Caucus appears as if they “deliberately selected some of the most foolish of all options,” said financial analyst and Wirepoints founder Mark Glennon.
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Wirepoints president argues that Mayor Lightfoot failing to stand up for 'ordinary Chicagoans'
Illinois government watchdog Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski laments the fact that in Chicago politics, the more things change, the more they seem to stay the same.
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From Prairie State Wire
More than half of Illinois' police and fire pension funds are underfunded, Wirepoints reports
Financial decay is happening at all levels of Illinois state government, according to the president of state news aggregation and research site Wirepoints.