Two weeks ago, Gov. J.B. Pritzker lifted his vaccine mandate for higher education.

The strike impacted the supply of asphalt and concrete which then slowed down or even put several area projects on hold.

The Marguerite Casey Foundation recently gave $1.5 million to the public university for its “Portal Project of the Social Justice Initiative,” first launched last summer. “Over the past year, the Portal Project has convened nearly 200 scholars, artists and activists to explore the meaning of justice in the 21st century, centering those communities most impacted by various forms of injustice,” Barbara Ransby, director of the Social Justice Initiative, said in a prepared release.

“Pritzker has shown himself willing and able to meddle in other people’s primaries, and he has a level of resources that mean that his interference has an outsize impact. He needs to rein in this tendency and direct those around him to stick to governing Illinois as well as they can.”

The scandal broke during Pritzker’s 2018 run for governor, which saw the Illinois Democrat pledge to pay back the $330,000 in property taxes he and his wife allegedly avoided. The echoes of the scandal continued into 2019, when a federal investigation was launched into the governor’s alleged tax dodge, and into 2020, when the same contractor who took out the toilets was awarded a $9 million COVID-19 contract from the Army Corps of Engineers.

State Rep. Kelly Cassidy said the groups allow the Democratic caucus to discuss ideas “and develop consensus internally…Then we will engage with any Republicans who are more serious about these issues of privacy and bodily autonomy than their standard bearers,” said Cassidy, who is leading the announced Reproductive Health and the Dobbs Decision Working Group. “But if their goal remains the [former President Donald Trump and Republican gubernatorial candidate state Sen. Darren Bailey] agenda, we won’t let them derail the work that needs to be done.”

According to the audit, of the 195 instances where a home safety check should have been done and recorded, DCFS was only able to provide three recorded instances of a checklist. State auditors also found cases of children with poorly recorded or missing health care records; They were unable to assess whether the department had accurate records of immunizations because the data provided to them by DCFS failed to meet standards for validity.

It’s bad timing for a family fight to spill into the open, given that members of the Democratic National Committee are here this week to size up the city as a possible 2024 convention site. Illinois is also under consideration for an earlier spot in the presidential primary calendar.

The bill would repeal the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO), two policies which negatively impact public sector employees and their spouses. Davis said WEP and GPO were two provisions intended to “shore up Social Security” in the 1970s and 1980s. However, he said they now “punish” public sector employees.

The possibility of a conservative, Trump loyalist, winning a crucial gubernatorial election has an increasing number of Democrats concerned – and questioning the strategy of meddling in the other party’s primaries. “I think it’s always a bad idea to let people win a primary who could extremely dangerous if they won. And believe me, in the political word of today, anything can happen and usually does,” longtime Democratic state Sen. Lou D’Allesandro of New Hampshire said.

“Continue to research clean energy and renewables,” said Sen. Terri Bryant, who has filed three bills that could address the energy supply for Ameren customers. “I’m all for that, but not at the expense of all of Southern Illinois being forced into bankruptcy because people can’t afford their energy costs.”