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Chicago has been Neil Spun’s home for more than half his life, but recently, the 60-year-old state worker has been conflicted about staying in his Edgewater apartment. “There have been riots before, and looting. It just seems to me now that the city isn’t doing anything about it. I don’t see this getting any better, and so I’d like to leave.”
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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.
Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
Summary and audio linked here.
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Audio and summary
My favorite subject interviewed in the story was Amber the nurse:
“I think people forget that people do live here, too — it’s not just the Guccis and the Jimmy Choo stores,” she said. “And I completely support it all. You stealing shoes means nothing to me — that doesn’t hurt me at all. It’s just the fact that that brings more crime, and that does endanger me.”
Wow, and some licensing board in Illinois lets this lady practice.
Cause and effect, how does it work Amber?
Amber does sound a bit conflicted between her stated support of BLM and “the uprising,” and her discomfort with the effects: “. . . people had shopping carts full of (stuff), and all you heard were sirens, glass shattering and shouting. And gunshots,” she said. “It was just very jarring.” Oh, really?
Is this a surprise. The mayor only thinks about herself and lets the rest of the city be open to whomever!
The mayor has made it clear that she’s on the side of west and south side feral predators. This is how she will be re-elected. She’s not interested in business or destruction.