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“My budget director is projecting a budget shortfall of anywhere between $800,000 and $1.2 million,” Riverdale Mayor Lawrence Jackson said. “Worse-case scenario we will probably need to reduce our staff by a third.”
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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.
Audio and summary
Government needs to downsize like the rest of us. “We’re all in this together.”
Spending large and living on the brink has consequences. I have no sympathy.
Remember a guy named Oswego Willy at Capitol Fax says that *all* city workers are essential so none can be laid off. And when someone pointed that librarians could be furloughed because libraries will be closed for a long time, he said the savings were inconsequential, so why bother.
I wonder if his tongue is black from all those boots.