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Audio and summary Why the Holdup Using Artificial Intelligence to Cut Illinois Government Costs? – Wirepoints
May 19, 2026
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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.
Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
May 6, 2026
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer – Chicago’s struggling commercial real estate and more
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
The unions for whom this bill was written won’t like this
Gas prices went down and continue to go down in other states but in Illinois they have started to climb again.
“On July 1, 2019 the rate doubled to 38 cents per gallon from 19 cents. The report raised questions about the state’s ability to fund its Rebuild Illinois objectives. ” It’s just like progressives get the timing wrong on everything. Literally everything – wrong about reusable bags, wrong about housing density, wrong about doubling the gas tax, wrong about raising the income tax, wrong about forcing everyone into public transit, wrong about everything. They live in this fantasy world and it’s really jarring to see the real world consequences of their terrible decisions. But their own voters will not hold… Read more »