Ald. Sigcho-Lopez, advocates say city’s COVID-19 relief money has largely gone to contractors: ‘They’re leaving our communities to bleed’ – Chicago Sun-Times*

With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too

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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.

Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.

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