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Writes Mark Konkol: "If we can't trust the feds, and hospitals across the state still have no idea how the governor's team plans to mobilize an effective testing plan that experts say is the only way to ease our way out of this pandemic-induced economic gridlock — God help us all."
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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.
It should also be noted that while Pritzker blathers on about needing weeks to spin up contact tracing, other states, cities, and counties are taking thousands of applications and hiring by the hundreds already.
Maybe contract tracing is something he should have thought of weeks ago. He really thought this job was going to be super easy, just cutting ribbons and killing preborn babies and eating massive glutenous meals at magnificent feasts with other heads of state. And his record show that too – he signed like 600 all Democrat bills and vetoed only 8. He literally did nothing but sign other people’s bills, he had no agenda other than the progressive agenda of other house members, and he got to brag about infanticide, weed smoking, social justice and green energy. Unfortunately for this… Read more »
“Maybe contract tracing is something he should have thought of weeks ago.”
He stated he was “focusing” on contact tracing almost a month ago. Admittedly though, I think it was just an excuse to mention in his press briefing some phone call he had about it so as to give the appearance of actually having done something.
It states that Pritzker used the “models”. OK and why has no one seen these models?
Are they the same models that everyone else speaks of?
He just keeps moving the goalposts.
The so-called models are just graphs without public access to the methodology or data necessary to verify their legitimacy.
https://wgem.com/2020/05/11/governor-releases-updated-statewide-model-regional-metrics-for-restore-illinois-health-regions/
Brutal.