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"Cook County’s Promise Guaranteed Income Pilot, which launched using $42 million in federal American Rescue Plan Act funding, gave 3,250 low- to moderate-income families $500 a month in no-strings-attached cash ... The same people hoping to stretch that $500 check are also paying the county’s hefty 10.25 percent combined sales tax on many essential items, a reminder that government often constrains purchasing power with one hand while offering aid with the other."
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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
More goodies demanded by the Illinois voters that gives them a warm fuzzy feeling inside when the spending for them is enacted. Why then do they have such sour pusses when taxes are raised to pay for them?
People without fiscal discipline sure as hell aren’t spending their windfall on taxes. They are the ones crying about finally paying their fair share ( now that Johnson has achieved his goal of destroying Chicago’s business climate ) and are as detestable as their gramma Taxwinkle.