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Two Illinois nuclear plants are at risk of closing well before their useful lives are over. If you think you’ve heard that one before, it’s because you have. Exelon lobbied successfully in 2016 for $2.4 billion in state-ordered subsidies over a decade to keep open the company’s Clinton and Quad Cities nuclear stations.
“Children were raped and otherwise abused. Like the church, the school system seemed more concerned about protecting itself than putting the kids first. Otherwise, CPS wouldn’t have waited years to act, until the Tribune was about to publish its investigation.”
Comment: Won’t happen, but you can understand their contempt.
“At least the lies are bipartisan this time,” Municipal Market Analytics wrote in its weekly market commentary.
An investor group’s deal to buy former Tronc Chairman Michael Ferro’s entire stake in the newspaper chain has fallen through.
In April, Ferro struck the deal to sell his 25.6 percent stake in Tronc — which owns the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times and other newspapers — for $208.6 million to McCormick Media. Ferro owned the shares personally and through his Merrick Media and Merrick Venture Management entities.
Representatives Robin Kelly, Jan Schakowsky, Bobby Rush, and Danny Davis suggested the NFL is violating the players’ right to speak out on issues of racial injustice and police brutality.
Tech company with 25 employees expanding to 75.
Somebody should have told Madigan that if he wants to be “…cutting taxes on the middle class, putting more money in the pockets of working families,” then the last thing Illinois should do is copy its neighbors’ progressive tax schemes.
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