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"We’re not surprised this start-of-construction announcement came after the so-called fiscal cliff crisis, when numbers like $444 million in construction costs might well have raised some eyebrows in Springfield, given that the RTA was eventually saying its budget deficit for 2026 was $250 million, little more than half the cost of this one station."
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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
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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.
CTA should stop the crime on trains before they spend a penny on remodeling.
$444 million spent on a single CTA station, yet it cries poor.
$444 million spent on a single CTA station, yet a lone woman is horribly burned while riding that El car.
There is no shame in city hall, nor any moral compass within Brandon Johnson.
There is a compass with Mayor 6.6, an immoral one, making excuses for criminals. If a black woman had been near burned alive by a white man he would still be screaming about it. Now it’s just move along.
While I honestly believe that Mayor Johnson is disgusted and dismayed by the abhorrent crimes occurring on the CTA and throughout the city, the situation reminds me of that season of The Wire featuring Mayor Carcetti. The city was so corrupt and everyone so demoralized that no single person could realistically fix it.Special interests run rampant and block meaningful solutions. The problem with the Safe-T Act is that the Legislative Black Caucus functions as one such powerful special interest group. Its members appear willing to accept occasional horrific incidents, like the recent immolation on the CTA, if it means fewer… Read more »
CTA needs to stop spending money that they do not have, stop stealing from taxpayers, and reorganize to be fiscally responsible. It pays well to be friends with connected people.