A statewide concern: Illinois’ population decline outpaces neighboring states – Wirepoints on ABC20 Champaign
“We are not in good shape” Wirepoints’ Ted Dabrowski told ABC 20 Champaign during a segment on Illinois’ latest population losses. Illinois was one of just three states to shrink in the 2010-2020 period and has lost another 300,000 people since then. Ted says things need to change. “It’s too expensive to live here, there aren’t enough good jobs and nobody trusts the government anymore. There’s just other places to go where you can be more satisfied.”
NY Times had an article “it’s almost 2019, do you know where your photos are?” that has a lot of similarities to the pension problem. We’ve heard about obsolescent digital formats before, but now it is a problem for anybody with a smart phone. Where do you store your photos ? In 2005, Yahoo acquired Flickr and told its users to move their photos to that website. In 2013, Flickr gave its customers virtually unlimited storage. Later Flickr decided it couldn’t afford to do that. Customers were limited to 1000 photos with more storage space for sale. Now iTunes promises… Read more »
My, you certainly know how to “connect the dots” between different stories.
Thank you for doing these interviews Mark (and Ted). Jeff could improve his form by simply letting you speak at length. He is constantly two steps behind you.
He needs to turn the iPhone off and quit texting during the interview.
And I should have interrupted him more. Being nice just doesn’t pay.