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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.
The taxpayers of Illinois are such cheap bastards. It is time for the ghost of Francis Willard to get out her Methodist paddle and punish that bad behavior. Stick it to them, I say. Stick it to them really good.
Time for the readers and creator of Wirepoints to abandon their old useless ideas for better ones.
Bankruptcy for the state.
The State of Illinois is one of moral corruption but we shouldn’t reward bad behavior by permitting the State of Illinois to avoid its obligations through bankruptcy.
I repeat the challenge I have made often here and to any Illinois politician I talk to: Show me the alternative to the “old useless ideas” as you call them that I’ve proposed here. This isn’t about selecting a attractive solutions or picking among alternatives. It’s about accepting the unavoidable. It’s just the numbers. Nobody is proposing any viable alternative. NOBODY. To put it more bluntly, put up or shut up.
It is simple. Open up the Illinois coin purse and raise taxes.
Um, any concerns that the tax base is already shrinking and tax revenue is declining, and that just maybe higher taxes would speed that up? And I don’t suppose you actually have number about how much would have to be raised in taxes if that’s to be the solution, do you?
As you have many times said, Illinois kicked the can (taxes) down the road. You have made you bed. Now sleep in it. Pay the ticket.
Listen to your Mother Nature. Don’t a whiner about it. Put on your big boy pants.
Sorry, but if taxes are raised to try to pay the bill without reform I’ll just move.
The humor is vacuous and if there is an idea here, it certainly lacks coherence. Scorn and name-calling are staples in what the unions call debate. When the weather improves, rev up the demonstrations, denunciations and disruption. Disburse some more pension funds to your lawyers and file some more lawsuits. Mother Nature wears army boots. Joe Hill wears lederhosen. How ’bout them apples?