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As Mayor Brandon Johnson Brandon Johnson moves forward with plans to convert parts of the Loop’s financial district into public housing, critics warn the city is walking directly into the same disastrous policies that once produced Cabrini-Green, the Robert Taylor Homes, and decades of concentrated poverty. One of those critics—policy scholar and author Howard Husock—joined Dan Proft to explain why America’s public-housing legacy should serve as a warning, not a model.
Morning Answer82,397 views • 9 months ago

The mayor of Naperville, Scott Wehrli, released a video this week urging residents to contact their state legislators to oppose the Build Act, a bill being pushed by Governor Pritzker that would mandate developers be allowed to build six to eight-unit residential buildings on lots currently zoned for single-family homes, by right, with no local hearing, no city council vote, and no community input. Stephen Moore, economist and co-author of "The Trump Economic Miracle," joined Dan Proft to weigh in on the Build Act, the housing crisis more broadly, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s property seizure proposals, and the AI industry’s self-inflicted communications problem.
Morning Answer14,141 views • 3 months ago

John Deere, one of the Fortune 500 companies that still calls Illinois home, has been making capital expenditure decisions that Wirepoints founder Mark Glennon and Dan Proft described as a slow-motion divestiture the state’s political class and business press have either missed or chosen to ignore.
Morning Answer12,285 views • 4 months ago

Investigative journalist and author Lee Smith joined Dan Proft to discuss President Trump’s upcoming meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the state of U.S.–China relations, and his new book "The China Matrix: The Epic Story of How Donald Trump Shattered a Deadly Pact."
Morning Answer15,883 views • 10 months ago
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