Mayor Brandon Johnson

Chicago mayor needs to tell it right

Published by admin on Sun, 10/13/2024 - 12:11pm

Last week, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson repeatedly slammed Statehouse legislators.
“Some of the same individuals who claim to support an elected representative school board only got the gospel once I became mayor of Chicago,” Mayor Johnson told reporters during one of the most combative and counter-productive press conferences I have ever seen.
No.

Pritzker refutes $1.1 billion more for CPS

Published by admin on Sun, 07/21/2024 - 11:23am

An oft-repeated $1.1 billion demand from Chicago’s mayor would actually wind up costing state taxpayers $5.5 billion. And Gov. JB Pritzker is turning a big thumbs down.
Chicago Public Schools made the huge mistake of putting a ton of temporary federal pandemic aid into its permanent spending base for years and that money is just about gone. It also recently over-estimated some state tax revenues.

Like it or not, migrant buses still coming

Published by admin on Sun, 01/28/2024 - 11:19am

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s budget that he passed last November deliberately underfunded programs for asylum-seekers. The meager appropriation authority could be exhausted by April, but nobody knows yet what the city plans to do when it reaches that point.
Also last November, Gov. JB Pritzker made it clear to reporters that, “the state doesn’t run shelters,” and said he was waiting for the city to recommend shelter sites.