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IEA about retiree health care funding cuts: Don't worry. Be happy.
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Sterling Bay, Lincoln Yards and the Chicago Teachers Pension Fund.
I had to do a double take on the story in Chicago Crain’s Business yesterday. The Chicago mega-developer Sterling Bay was asking the Chicago Teachers…
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The merger of the PGA and the LIV. I'm suspicious of the outrage.
I am not a golfer. Back in the sixties when attending Los Angeles City College I was required to take a gym class. One semester I took badminton…
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DeSantis' human trafficking paid for with Covid relief money.
Chicago is an official Sanctuary City and has been since Harold Washington was mayor in 1985. Nobody in our city should be tricked into abandoning our…
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Abandoning talk of peace to the MAGAs.
Since the start of the Ukraine war when Russian troops invaded that country I have believed that neither side could win a military victory, that it…
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If this was a win, what do the Democrats consider a loss? Biden's version of "mission accomplished."
Two decades ago, on May 1, 2003, then-US President George W Bush declared “major combat operations in Iraq have ended” in a speech aboard the USS…
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The Great Unwinding. Millions thrown off healthcare rolls. Many are children.
Illinois Democrats in Congress who voted no to the debt limit McCarthy/Biden compromise were my own Congressmember Delia Ramirez along with Chuy Garcia…
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Americans were hungry before the credit compromise cuts food stamps. The compromise makes it worse.
It looks likely that the debt ceiling compromise cobbled together by Kevin McCarthy and Joe Biden will pass the House with a bi-partisan majority and…
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Good paying jobs, not work requirements for government assistance.
The deal struck between Joe Biden and Kevin McCarthy to raise the debt limit is sure no win for poor folks. It’s a definite win for the wealthy and the…
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Nuclear testing. The whole world was downwind.
The organization, Women For Peace, protested above ground nuclear testing in the sixties. Talking with a friend at a party this weekend we winded up in…
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The credit limit fight. Money for the wealthy and the war machine. Work requirements for the poor.
I am an old negotiator. I know how this process works. You demand more than you expect to get and hope to get more than you had before you started…
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Is the Illinois backdoor voucher program about to end?
The Illinois Senate passed the state budget yesterday. The Illinois House will pass it this weekend and then Governor Pritzker will sign it. I read that…
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The debt crisis. Instead of a work requirement, how about a peace requirement.
Wishing my big brother Mike Klonsky a happy birthday. This is number 80 and he’s still going strong. You can catch his radio show and podcast, live on…
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Our failed healthcare system.
Bob Dylan turns 82 today. Happy birthday Bob. I’m turning 75 on June 14th. Flag day. My late grandmother Esther Wainer’s birthday. In Illinois if you’re…
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Fred Klonsky in Retirement
Fred Klonsky in Retirement
Pensions, unions, politics, retirement. I also post my art.
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