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DeKalb County Board Vice Chairman John Frieders said raising the sales tax is a way to fund schools without raising property taxes. “Property taxes, as you know, are just very hard on landowners, whether it be farmland owners or people who own their own houses and apartment buildings and such. They’re just a major issue."
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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.
Funding schools> it is a bottomless pit of cost with little control and measurable performance results. They simply complain and our government takes more from the tax payer. Bottomless Pit.
Tax is a tax either way it’s coming out of your pocket.
And we have way too many tax pockets for them to pick.