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The failures beyond Evanston High School’s segregated AP classes
Critics are right to call out Evanston Township High School (ETHS) for its segregation of minority students from white students in several Advanced Placement classes. The move is likely unconstitutional and even if challenges to reverse it fail it flies in the face of decades of civil rights actions to bring students together.
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Palatine Rep. Morrison calls for immediate pension fund reform: 'Our cities are struggling'
State Rep. Tom Morrison (R-Palatine) urges that pension fund reform is needed to support the increasing number of retirees in Illinois.
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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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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.
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From Prairie State Wire
Illinois home values show little growth compared to neighbors, rest of U.S., Wirepoints reports
Illinois ranked near the bottom in average U.S. home values over a 12-year period ending in 2017, according to a new Wirepoints report.
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From Prairie State Wire
Wirepoints calls out Pritzker for doubling state's gas tax, breaking promise to middle class
Illinois state lawmakers have a dubious history of subjecting residents to gas tax hikes, but the recent doubling of the state gas tax to 38 cents per gallon seems to have taken things to an entirely new level.
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From Prairie State Wire
Pritzker’s claims of paying down pension debt “simply dishonest,” fiscal watchdog says
The recently approved state budget hardly makes Illinois the beacon of fiscal prudence that Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker and legislative leaders claim it is, budgetary analysts at Wirepoints say.
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Maine Township Trustee Sweeney speaks out against losing right to vote on pension eligibility
Maine Township Trustee Sue Sweeney considers the removal of township voters' right to decide if their elected officials should be eligible for pensions as taking power away from the people.
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Wirepoints dissects Maine Township's tax crisis
As overall property values in Park Ridge continue to suffer the effects of the recession a decade ago, and school-district spending continues to rise, Wirepoints reports that taxpayers are left to pick up the slack out of their own pockets.
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From Prairie State Wire
Illinios education officials want half the state's budget, Wirepoints warns
Illinois education officials are out to get half of the state's budget—and they just might—to the detriment of the state's taxpayers, according to an online Wirepoints newsletter issued earlier today.
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From Prairie State Wire
State facing huge debt for public-sector retiree health benefits, says Wirepoints
Illinois's "other debt disaster" is $73 billion in unfunded state retiree health insurance benefits and more than twice that amount owed over the next four decades, according to a special report issued this week by an online news outlet.
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Wirepoints editor responds to critics, blasts Maine Township trustee's criticism
The editor of an Illinois economic research and commentary website told critics to “put up or shut up” after a trustee called the site a “political propaganda paper” during an open board meeting last month.
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From Prairie State Wire
Population falling, but Illinois government leaders agree to spend, borrow more
Illinois state government leaders say they will spend a record $38.5 billion and borrow an estimated $11.5 billion over the next year, according to a fiscal year 2019 budget plan approved by Gov. Bruce Rauner.
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Founder of Wirepoints Inc. says Dabrowski is 'really perfect' for president position
Former Illinois Policy VP at the Illinois Policy Institute Ted Dabrowski recently joined Wirepoints Inc. as president of the firm.
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Wilmette residents supporting increase in school tax levy want others to pick up the tab
Forty of the 50 people writing public letters of support for Wilmette School District 39’s proposed tax levy increase have appealed their own real estate tax assessments, according to a North Cook News review of records in the Cook County Assessor’s Office.
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Pritzker prompted to state his stance on Northwestern's Schapiro
J.B. Pritzker can tell Illinoisans a lot about whether he deserves to be their next governor by taking a stance on Northwestern University (NU) President Morton Schapiro, Wirepoints founder Mark Glennon says on his website.
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Report shows 'true' accounting of pension liabilities more than double what governments say; Expert: debt is 'utterly absurd'
Financial expert Mark Glennon of Wilmette says in his analysis of a new study on state and local pensions that the options available to reduce the substantial obligations facing Illinois funds include amending the state constitution or going through federal bankruptcy.
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If budget hopes are scrapped, Illinois could become first 'junk' state
The chances that Illinois will reach a budget before May 31 and avoid seeing its bond rating lowered to the worst of any state in history are 50-50 at best, according to Mark Glennon, founder of the business and government website WirePoints told the Sangamon Sun recently.