Presented without comment.

Comment: It’s the reviled Green New Deal, just with a longer time line.

A leader in the state’s new tax-supported private school scholarship program is hoping that increased transparency and proof of what the program accomplished in its first year will keep it off Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s chopping block. The governor has been calling for the end of the five-year pilot program, launched in 2018, since before he was governor. Discussions already are underway to reduce the program’s statewide fundraising cap, which would limit the number of scholarships it could award.

Colleges across the nation are experiencing continued enrollment decline, and Illinois is no exception. The state’s community colleges and public universities experienced a decline of nearly 100,000 students over the last decade — and community colleges are taking the biggest hit.

Use the calculator linked in this article to see how much tax you would pay in Wisconsin and Iowa (two states Pritzker has described as good precedents) compared to Illinois.

Pritzker’s plan to bolster the underfunded public pension system via new taxes ‘punts’ on meaningful change, S&P says.

Comment: Illinois politicians should get the power to set rents? What could go wrong?

Republicans, however, are arguing that the entire issue of prescription drug costs is beyond the scope of state government, and that some of the Democrats’ proposals could actually end up costing taxpayers and making life-saving medications less available to people in the state.

Comment: We will have our own critique of that paper up soon.