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.
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
I have just one question. Why is a cash bailout for a territory in which residents do not pay federal income tax a serious possibility, but a bailout for a state in which residents not only pay federal income tax, but in which – decade after decade – residents have collectively paid much more into the federal treasury than they have received back in federal spending, beyond the realm of possibility? You may well be right that Puerto Rico will get a bailout while Illinois will not, but if so something is very wrong with our country.