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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.
Can local journalism be saved? Lord, I hope not. Let them all return to dog grooming…
It has become clear in recent years that Northwestern is a liberal elite progressive woke institution. Their Medill School of Journalism has zero integrity now. May it go south like the liberal rags that people have abandoned.
We will not pay for continuing lies, not
Any truth. Let the union pay for the rags.
Used to have the paper delivered……….couldn’t PAY me to read it now
No one will miss the Fibune when it’s gone. Truth be told: they left us not we left them.