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Mark and Ted discuss the ongoing battle between free speech and censorship that is occurring in the media, online and in Illinois.
There are violence disrupters, police cameras, “equitable growth and job creation,” “climate mitigation,” and “environmental justice priorities.” The city will also fight violence through by expanding “place-based arts and events opportunities,” supporting small businesses, and expanding resources to fight homelessness.
The goal of the bill is also to work toward closing prosecution loopholes of which Rob Karr, president of the Illinois Retail Merchants Association, says criminal groups are taking advantage – giving jurisdiction to one state’s attorney when crimes occur in more than one county. “So let’s say something is stolen in Cook, and it’s stored in Will County, it is and fenced in Lake County. Any one of those jurisdictions that discovers it can try for the whole thing.”
“You have people who don’t know our community, who are afraid of our community, who have no connections, no relationships to the community, policing our community. And they cannot relate and so they profile the African-American community,” said Ald. Anthony Beale, 9th Ward.
In his latest re-election ad, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker touted his election-year tax relief as lowering prices for families. He failed to mention his plan expires shortly after the election and that he imposed thousands in new taxes as his term began
Attorney Thomas DeVore said the cases are far from decided, regardless of the issuance of temporary restraining orders. “The legislature won’t solve these problems, they could, so the courts are going to have to solve it.”
The 2-1 ruling by the 4th District Court of Appeals upheld a Sangamon County judge’s decision on April 1 not to issue a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of the policy. The decision involved three consolidated cases – suits against Gov. JB Pritzker, various state agencies, the Pekin Fire Department and the Deland-Weldon school district – in which public employees are seeking to overturn the mandate
The list did not fall along predictable lines. A number of GOP lawmakers who voted against recent bills sanctioning Russia were on list, while some of the leading Democrats advancing those policies were left off. Some of the most vocal Republicans supporting Ukraine were also not on the sanctions list.
Mr. Griffin and Mr. Pritzker, an heir to the Hyatt hotel fortune and the brother of former U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, have had a running feud in recent years, lately over rising violence in Chicago. “I’ve had multiple colleagues mugged at gunpoint. I’ve had a colleague stabbed on the way to work,” Mr. Griffin said of Chicago. “That’s a really difficult backdrop with which to draw talent to your city.”
“Naturally, the dire partisan warnings from Obama made local news. But there were few if any local stories on the media meltdown and the Chicago Thinker. At least, I couldn’t find them. You’d think local media might be interested about local students taking down a bunch of posing elites by asking simple questions.”
“Based on their farcical fact-check, the editors decided to erase the op-ed’s original publication page from their website ‘to prevent further harm.’ Their action evokes the protagonist of 1984, who had the job of erasing words from old newspapers because it served the totalitarian government’s ends to pretend they had never been published.”
“The stated purpose of the University of Chicago’s symposium was to discuss stopping the dissemination of false or warped versions of news. The problem was that some of the featured experts have been among the worst offenders.”
According to Daniel Hertz, director of policy at Chicago Department of Housing, DOH has distributed more than $150 million in rental assistance to approximately 30,000 households since the pandemic began.
Foxx admitted there has been less success with stolen car cases involving juveniles; her office only has been able to prosecute 40 percent of those. Foxx stressed the rules for juvenile court are different, only allowing juveniles to be held in pretrial detention for 30 days unless there are extenuating circumstances.
The sanctions were announced against 398 bipartisan members of the U.S. House of Representatives. Bustos began her official response to Russian President Vladimir Putin, “Hey there Kremlin Gremlin.”
The governor said he supports individual towns and cities to do what they feel necessary to keep people safe, but declined to say whether the state is planning to issue another indoor mask mandate.
The increase would result in an additional $2.20 per month on your bill, if you’re a residential customer. To counteract the potential increase, the Illinois Commerce Commission is reviewing a proposal to advance customers $65 million in deferred income tax benefits – 82 cents of that monthly increase.
Adam Schuster, vice president of policy for Illinois Policy, explained, “Illinois has seen high taxes the past three years, and now this year he (Gov. JB Pritzker) is proposing temporary tax changes. He is promoting this as tax relief but amounts to a little more than an election-year gimmick.”
Nearly all major industries experienced job gains during the month. The largest came from the professional and business services sector, which grew payrolls by 9,700 during the month.
New questions have emerged over how Chicago City Clerk, and Illinois Secretary of State candidate, Anna Valencia promoted her husband Reyahd Kazmi’s work in securing contracts in Chicago and other cities.
Wirepoints’ Matt Rosenberg was on with Dan Ehrman, subbing for Mark Vargas on AM 560. They talked all about Chicago’s problems, including how CPS continues to fail the city’s poor and minority students.
A republication of our article about Rahmaan Barnes and the embrace of real black power: black agency, black possibility, and black accomplishment.
Mark Konkol: “The decision comes at a time when, regardless of tests positivity rates or any other coronavirus metrics, Pritzker’s administration is not considering reinstating any pandemic mandates. At least not during this point in an election year, even as the rolling average of daily coronavirus cases continues to increase.”
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