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"We're seeing a surge we didn't expect," Pritzker said. "The delta variant is challenging. Our next neighbor, Missouri, is the worst state in the country and that bleeds over into Illinois. It has in southern Illinois and Metro East you've seen an awful lot of people have gotten sick or gone to the hospital."
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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
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.
A crock of _rap that government, except in a few Red States, has Banned the doctors and hospitals use of Hydroxychloroquine and Remdesivir which could save lives vs just dumping someone in a hospital and putting them on a ventilator. Do your own research on these two drugs, but, don’t use Google. Google censors most of your research questions that goes against the current governments narrative.
Michigan governor to be stripped of emergency powers used for COVID-19 rules.
article is on yahoo https://www.yahoo.com/news/michigan-governor-stripped-emergency-powers-230700818.html
Is Missouri having issues with COVID hospitalizations and deaths? Because to me that is what matters. Not the positivity rate- having a headache and a fever while unpleasant is no reason to start enforcing lockdowns/mitigations.
Here comes tubby with another set of rules by which we’re supposed to live. I’ll take a pass.
Few outside of Chicago will follow your ‘new’ restrictions. They will mostly be ignored. I plan on ignoring them.
Locking the state down again should really help his chances in 2022.