Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 26, 2026
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With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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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.
When Chicago Tribune Editorial Board is taking shots at a democratic governor, you know he’s messed up in a meaningful way.
The biggest cheerleaders of JB’s tyranny – the news media – is hitting the financial reality of martial law. The Tribune has instituted permanent pay cuts for staff and semi-permanent furloughs too. They’re feeling the pain as ad revenue has likely dropped 50% or more, as it has with other major city newspapers. I suppose one good thing to come out of this would be the folding of the Tribune. I would rejoice when Eric Zorn and Heidi Stephens could take turns walking and grooming my dog in the gig economy. And then I could insult them as I berate… Read more »
Greg Hinz from Crains can join them in the clown car.