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"Illinois’s spending on its pension, merely with respect to the state-run systems for state employees, universities, and teachers outside of Chicago, totals $10 billion in 2020 (if the state makes all its scheduled contributions), including debt service for pension obligation bonds. Of this, roughly, $4 billion is for new pension accruals and $6 billion for debt service — out of a total budgeted general revenues of $40 billion. Where’s the money coming from?"
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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.
“[Blue states] explicitly or implicitly take the approach of delaying their actions even further to see what happens in the early-moving states, and cast themselves as better, more moral, more concerned about their states’ residents’ lives. ” This is the answer why IL is shut down. It’s all about social justice, like I said. In Illinois, it is minorities contracting and dying from red death more than other groups. And when there are disproportionate rates of disease among different races and ethnic groups, progressive social justice is the only answer. And the most important thing to JB and Lori is… Read more »