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"(Mayor Brandon) Johnson’s tenure has been entirely in keeping with his campaign. ... The result: by November of last year, just 18 months after Johnson’s election, a poll showed that just 14 percent of Chicagoans approved of the job he is doing. That’s the lowest approval rating on record for a Windy City mayor. Now residents are exploring how they might change state law to recall Johnson."
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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’s human nature to believe incompetence must be the reason for failure; it can’t be that my ideas are really bad. Thus we get voters rejecting Lori Lightfoot as incompetent and electing Brandon Johnson, who promised to go even harder at implementing far leftist ideas. Brandon and the CTU say the problem is that they aren’t getting all the money they demand. Teachers tell us it’s not that they are incompetent, we just don’t understand how hard it is. We don’t need to get rid of these people because they are incompetent. We need to get rid of them because… Read more »