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"We should be looking at trends over time in three measures: new hospitalizations, new ICU admissions and the daily number of deaths. These indicators reflect the true prevalence of infection, not just of our ability to find them through testing, and they also are measures of the burden on the healthcare system. Not one of the 11 states with the highest number of COVID-19 deaths (Illinois among them) provides daily trends in even two of those numbers while reporting on cases in copious detail."
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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.
This reminds me of the story that former St Rep Bob Terzich ( who was also simultaneously a City of Chicago firefighter) used to tell about State govt. “Hey, there’s a fire. Let’ hire ten guys to fight the fire. Next, lets turn on the fire hoses full blast. Third, Let’s find out where the fire is!”