Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 26, 2026
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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.
The problem with hardwired smoke detectors (or at least just in my house) is that they require a battery backup and start beeping really, really loud if the battery gets low. Even though it’s on and hardwired. You can’t just shut off the beeping until, you know, the next morning when you can go to Walgreens to pick up the, you know, $3 a piece 9v battery. They just beep incessantly until that battery is replaced. The only way to stop the beeping is to either unplug the detector entirely from the hardwired circuit, or, shut off all the smoke… Read more »