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Three projects under Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s Rebuild Illinois program, including a proposed port in beleaguered downstate Cairo, have benefited his friends or political allies. Pritzker insists the projects were funded on their merits.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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Cairo like so many other southern Illinois towns are dying for an assortment of reasons including the closing of the coal mines that provided good wages to the residents of those small towns. Outlawing coal has not generated those promised green energy jobs, raised power bills and created a welfare climate in southern Illinois.
Thanks Democrats and be proud of the lives you have destroyed.
This is just further evidence that you can’t build any public project anywhere in Illinois without a healthy dose of old fashioned good old boy and good old girl style politics.
Business as usual.