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’ve been through this at a different Illinois manufacturer, whereby we had to literally train our replacements offshore, they called it “knowledge transfer”. It was humiliating and knowledge can’t be simply transferred anyway. Everyone got very passive aggressive, withheld knowledge even from coworkers. The company suffered innovation wise, no real innovation for ten years, when immediately prior and after the outsourcing there was abundant innovation. Today when we look to hire an engineer at 200,000 per year salary, 90 percent of the resumes we review are from h1b, 10 percent American. Kids are not coming out of colleges with these… Read more »