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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.
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Are you sure Mayor Brandon Johnson is referring to another “head tax?”
Where the hell is the city council ?
If us citizens know this is ridiculous how come they don’t?
Funny how so many here are upset about a tax that will raise $100 mil. But yet are fine with the remaining $1 Billion in tax increases proposed this year by BLM Brandon. You all think that just a Head Tax is anti business? Everything this state and City does is anti business.
Kill the head tax, just raise property taxes if you need more money. Whatever you do keep all the wasteful spending.
I fear if this goes through many employers will move out. Margins are already too thin.
They paid for this Ernst & Young report, why don’t they publish it?
They don’t need more money, it’s time for the chopping block on spending.