Supply chain shortages affecting businesses in Chicago area – WGNTV (Chicago)
May 8, 2021
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Opinion: Pritzker is seeing through the haze on energy reform – Crain’s*
May 8, 2021
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Chicago Tribune’s No. 2 Investor Says Papers Need Government Aid – Bloomberg
May 8, 2021
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How can media like the Sun-Times that support a total ban on an ex-president expect to be taken seriously? – Quickpoint
May 8, 2021
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“Donald Trump should be banned from any form of social media other than scrawling on bathroom walls. And even then he should be made to wash it off when he gets caught,” said the Chicago Sun-Times in an editorial last week.
They apparently think a permanent ban should be a sure thing. “As long as the former president lies about everything, Facebook may continue to ban him,” they wrote. “And he will always lie about everything.” The Sun-Times is not alone. CNN, for example, published at least two opinion pieces calling for a permanent social media
Murders Are Rising the Most in a Few Isolated Precincts of Major Cities – Wall Street Journal*
May 8, 2021
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“While some have become centers for concentrated affluence in the modern city, others have become centers for economic and social ills. Chicago is a case study in these patterns. Last year it led the nation in homicides. It recorded another 195 this year through May 2, up 35 from the same period in 2020.”
Proposal to drop entrance exam requirements at public universities advances in Illinois legislature – Chicago Tribune*
May 8, 2021
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Big changes could be coming to admissions at public universities in Illinois after two expansive bills cleared the state Senate Higher Education Committee in recent days. The two pieces of legislation aim to make a degree more accessible: The first would allow residents to apply to any of the state’s 12 public universities without submitting SAT or ACT scores, while the other would guarantee well-performing community college students a spot at the University of Illinois.
Merit, Schmerit: Pending Illinois law will change ‘affirmative action’ to ‘positive action’ and cover, well, everything! – Wirepoints
May 8, 2021
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How about we expand preferences in hiring and promotion to base them on any characteristic whatsoever that might disadvantage somebody, regardless of whether the characteristic is inherited or self-inflicted? That’s in a bill moving full steam ahead in Springfield and it’s a doozy. It’s House Bill 3914, the Positive Action Act. It already passed the Illinois House and is moving in the Senate.