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“I’d like to think my husband and I have become partners in knowing everybody counts, especially fighting for the voiceless and the powerless,” says the first lady, who chuckles about “their vastly different backgrounds growing up." She has spent the past four years curating a collection of Illinois art and historic furniture for the newly rebuilt governor’s mansion, reviving the state’s poet laureate and arts program and, without fanfare, visiting prisons to interview incarcerated women throughout Illinois.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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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Do not go on a cruise ship and let both of them stand on the same side of the vessel
You know who does not count in IL? Suburban non-public union taxpayers who have for decades experienced injustice and broken promises from IL politicians, who put themselves and public unions ahead of the vast majority of IL taxpayers.
IL-#1-2 in overall tax burden; #1-2 in public corruption; and #51, despite all its assets, in fiscal condition (behind Puerto Rico). Plus kids can’t perform at grade level and rampant crime. Why?
MK and JB look like siblings.