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U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said that Illinois is doing everything right regarding electric vehicles. "The EV revolution needs to happen quickly enough to beat climate change, that it happens on equitable terms that benefits all Americans, and that is a made in America electric vehicle revolution. You see all of those goals at play in what's going on right here in the Bloomington, Normal area."
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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.
Pritzker says “The EV revolution needs to happen quickly enough to beat climate change” Governor Friendly of Exelon Corp and Coal mining cracks me up. He knows where campaign funds generate from but does he know where electricity comes from??? Here’s some fun facts from US Energy Information Administration: Illinois generates more electricity from nuclear energy than any other state and accounted for 13% of U.S. nuclear power generation in 2020. FYI, the shuttered environmental hazardous Zion nuclear power plant has 1,500 tons of spent fuel rods sitting in concrete casks with no where to go. Next up, Consumption of… Read more »