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.
Rose-colored-glasses predictions of economic revival from a political convention are bullshit
https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/atlantas-loss-of-dnc-not-a-huge-blow-to-regional-economy/I2A4XGXN7NDUDITAI3MZJRLOBU/
This is another example, IMO, of how Crain’s has improved its game, Much more content calling out the BS and acknowledging our problems. (Though Greg Hinz still stinks.)
This is like defending an abusive spouse. “I know he’ll stop hitting me after he stops drinking, he hasn’t touched the stuff all week”. Crains backed the Democrats for the last 20years, maybe longer. They routinely glossed over problems that were building while supporting and giving press to every ridiculous DEI movement helping normalize them at the expense of the bare knuckles business reporting we needed. I canceled over a decade ago and it’s gotten worse. Crains is dead to a lot of us and no amount of course change can undo the damage. We dont need a business journal… Read more »
Crains? What’s that, never heard of it.