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Lawmakers in Springfield are pushing to pass legislation to provide people recently released from prison with housing, which they say will save Illinois taxpayers by reducing the likelihood for someone to reoffend.
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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.
Audio and summary
I can’t believe that in the old days when people were held until trial and didn’t have their sentences automatically reduced by half that repeated and continuous crime breaking was committed by ex- cons even without a plethora of social services. The vast majority of cons went out, got jobs, checked in with their parole officer and never saw the inside of a jail again without a lot of hand holding. This is just another opportunity to grift from the taxpayers.
How’s the cashless bail working with RE-OFFENDERS??