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“In these meetings, I don’t feel the sense of urgency,” Nora Cay Ryan, board member for the RTA said during a recent board meeting. “If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu. We are on the menu."
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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.
Audio and summary
Plead to Heaven because mortals (even Pritzker and Trump) can’t fix a City or a System that needs more money when there is no more.
Raise fares. Or cut routes. No more govt. handouts.
RTA was created to bail out CTA. It didn’t work. Until CTA reorganizes and cuts out wasteful spending, political and DEI hires, they shouldn’t get another dime. They need to stop projects that they don’t have the money for, and are only doing to award contracts to their friends. Let Chicago pay for their mismanagement of CTA. Leave the suburbs and down state out of Chicago’s financial mess.
“ Please give us millions more to spend on duplicate agencies all in the same business- transporting people. “ say the multiple layers of bureaucracy and their staffs.
Let them beg for money on the corners- “Need money for CTA” signs, see how much money they get from the public.
Isn’t that the truth. Ask for money from those who use it…