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When asked about cost, State Rep. Eva-Dina Delgado said infrastructure deserves investment. “I don’t know how often we talk about how much it takes to pave a road or how much it costs to build a mile of new road or rehab a mile of new road,” Delgado said.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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.
Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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Typing on behalf of Illinois’ political animals, via The Center Square, Jim Talamonti, Catrina Barker and Kevin Bessler give us this claim: “Last year, the Civic Federation projected a total savings of $200 million to $250 million per year for regional transit with consolidation.” No, kids, a consulting firm called “Slalom” said that, and the Civic Federation provided no details as to how that would come about. Slalom is primarily involved in…I’m not sure. Their website is so vanilla and generic, it’s hard to determine exactly what they do. They certainly don’t mention anything about trains, buses or transit. Their… Read more »
I think there’s a strong correlation between mismanagement of taxpayer funds and the occurrence of fiscal cliffs. Bloat is almost always part of mismanagement. Bloat can be found in salaries, benefits, contracts, number of employees, number of offices, etc. With mismanagement so deeply entrenched in Illinois for so many years, a significant change for the better in management style is unlikely unless it’s forced. With federal funding continuing to slow, mismanaged Illinois will try to enact more and higher taxes and fees for its residents, resulting in more citizens relocating out of state (the death spiral). Certainly, Pritzker and his… Read more »
I see a lot of “create” and “establish” in the bill text. Nothing about dismantle, dissolve, or do away with. Too bad for Metra is all I can say.
Consolidating mass transit is only to make the suburbs bail out CTU.
Where’s RINO Kirk Dillard in all this?
Elon Musk would be happy to fix this for you, and he wouldn’t even need a payoff, like all the local con men will require. Slash and burn until it hurts. This bloated con has been going on long enough.