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The plan, which was issued Jan. 28, offered most federal employees a buyout to voluntarily leave their jobs by Feb. 6. In a release, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul said this "Fork in the Road" directive is "an attempt to force federal workers to choose, giving them only days to decide between accepting a legally fraught 'buyout' and potentially being terminated from their jobs."
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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.
All this time thinking you were free and able to make your own life choices.Thanks goes to people like Kwame for helping save all of us from ourselves.
So, the people of this country through their elected officials are not allowed to use conventional methods to right size the government labor staffing? These people opposing this are telling the public and tax payers that you don’t matter – shut up and keep paying.