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In a truncated session, state lawmakers are working on details of what could be a $39.7 billion spending plan. That’s about level with the current fiscal year’s spending plan, even with the expected crater in revenue from the economic shutdown imposed by government.
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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.
Dictator for Life Jabba is clearly insane. It’s like the last days of the Third Reich when a crazed and delusional Hitler directed imaginary armies from his bunker full of sycophants to stop real Russian forces. The money in the budget is no more real than the decimated German army
Delusional is the only word to describe this congressional session. Between insane spending, infanticide, legal marijuana, green new deals, the bevy of new taxes, and the $45B infrastructure boondoggle, the word delusional is really the only word I can use to describe them.