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“We’ve been reactive to crime for so long,” said Garien Gatewood, the deputy mayor of community safety. “And this is why we have over 4 million people in the state of Illinois with arrest records. If we continue to be reactive, we’ll continue to be in the same cycle.”
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Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 26, 2026
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With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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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
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
a really embarrassing WTTW interview with Gatewood talking platitudes and that’s it???…THERE IS NO PLAN