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
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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.
Perfect description of education in Illinois. Schools scramble from their own self inflicted fiasco’s! Has anyone witnessed CPS not scrambling?
Several public schools and the Chicago Arch chose to side with the unconstitutional mask mandate and all “protocols” remain in place. When does this stop? Our Catholic schools are siding with tyrants. The judge called it EVIL, and clearly said it was violating civil rights. At what point is the actual point of no return if we don’t say NO now? The kids aren’t at risk and if the adults can’t handle it by this time – please quit. Triple boosted and double masked adults do not need to continue scaring the kids.
There would be a parental revolt against school boards if schools went remote again over useless masks.
CPS is just ignoring the ruling stating it doesn’t apply to them. Nothing has changed in their mind. Masks are a religion for so many in that district. Somehow I don’t think there will be any parent revolt.
What will the prime suburban school districts do tomorrow? How will the parents react? It should be an interesting week.
District 214 one of the largest high school districts in the state just went mask optional. They were a defendant in the lawsuit. Many other districts that weren’t defendants to the lawsuit have decided to go mask optional for tomorrow morning too. Various twitter feeds are posting the district wide emails as they are sent out. Of course some, like CPS, will continue to defy the law with questionable legal reasoning designed to prolong the mask wearing. They may even win some other local court rulings too – no judge in the Daley Center in downtown Chicago is going to… Read more »