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.
Lightfoot was a disappointment to her law firm, and had short tenure. Check it out,
Great blog post, but as much as I enjoy J Kass, instinct tells me he is a bit wrong about this: “She made a good living craftily parsing words at one of the city’s top law firms.” She made over a million dollars a year making accusations of racism in courtrooms. That’s where the money is. She is not that articulate or bright, likely a one trick pony.
Kass has never taken it easy on any mayor. He feels used by Lightfoot, she was on his podcast and several favorable columns as a candidate. The image she constructed as a candidate was totally the opposite once she became mayor. Kass doesn’t get taken often, but he admits it now.
I heard her NPR interview (accidentally of course as I scanned the FM radio in my car) and her #1 priority during her campaign was community support for LGBTQ+SDFD teens and youth.
Really? That was her platform?
Of course, Chicago gets what Chicago deserves.
YES! Kass has his own news site. Sorry I was more excited about that than his article, which I will now read.