Nasdaq is dropping Rivian because it shrunk too much. The electric carmaker will lose its spot on the Nasdaq-100, which comprises 100 of the largest non-financial companies listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange, on June 20, Nasdaq confirmed.

The weeklong trial has been filled with political intrigue, both in the lineup of current and former elected officials who have testified as well as the backdrop of ongoing federal investigations swirling around James Weiss’ associates, including the Cook County assessor’s office that Joe Berrios once helmed.

In the refrigerator case at your local liquor or convenience store, you’ll likely find Jack Daniel’s mixed with Coca-Cola. While the product has the Jack Daniel’s whiskey logo on it, it also has the familiar script Coca-Cola logo – and some worry it could be confused with the plain old non-alcoholic soft drink. That why the state’s emergency rule is now in place.

Ted Dabrowski of Wirepoints analyzed the data. He said crime and corruption are major factors in people leaving. “This new Census data confirms what we’ve seen from U-Haul, from United Van lines and from IRS data, and that’s that Illinoisans are leaving the state,” Dabrowski said. “They are

“Pulling someone over for merely having an air freshener attached to the rearview mirror is not only archaic, it’s ridiculous,” Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias said.

“This measure encroaches on parents’ rights,”state Rep. Adam Niemerg said. “In my mind, it’s parents that have an obligation to raise their children, not the public education system, not the government.”

The new law extends to workers at state-run institutions as well as those at privately operated community agencies that function under the supervision of OIG officials and the Illinois Department of Human Services.

Attorney Amanda Hamilton represents the local pension funds suing the state. “We take issue with the fact that this legislation significantly diminishes, if not eliminates, the effect of each participant’s vote, that is to say their right to decide who controls these funds, who manages these funds,” she said. “We also take an issue with the fact that it forces the individual funds to bear the transfer and transition costs. We don’t think that’s appropriate either.”

While Republican opposition centered around criticism of the process in which McCuskey was originally nominated, they have overwhelmingly approved his performance in the 15 months since he was appointed. “If we truly need to stand before the Illinois resident and say, ‘We are conducting ourselves in an ethical way,’ we need to allow ourselves to be under scrutiny by a person of high caliber and honor,” Rep. Jeff Keicher said. “That person is Judge McCuskey.”

Of the residents who left, 51% made more than $100,000 per year, 25% made less than $50,000 and 24% made $50,000 to $100,000.

Comment: Illinois’ industrial policy, “Reinventing Electric Vehicles,” was based on attracting plants like this to Illinois. It’s a complete failure.

The bipartisan bill aims to identify the standards required to meet the definition of sustainable aviation fuel at the Federal Aviation Administration, and would require the federal government to adopt the most up-to-date lifecycle emissions models. It also clarifies that the U.S. government does not encourage the banning of agricultural feedstocks from being utilized as a viable source of SAF.

“Since June 2022, Democratic state lawmakers have passed a slew of bills ramping up protections for out-of-state patients and expanding overall access. But a small coalition of GOP legislators has been working to undo many of the abortion-rights bills introduced by their colleagues across the aisle — without much luck.”

“Book bans are about censorship, marginalizing people and marginalizing ideas,” Democrat Gov. Pritzker said at Chicago’s Harold Washington Public Library. The shelf behind him included books that feature explicit illustrations of or detailed instructions for various sex acts.

“Imagine, sometime in the next decade, that the governor of Illinois and the mayor of Chicago hold a joint press conference to declare that the state and city can’t pay their bills. Schools close, crime spikes, garbage goes uncollected, and public employees protest proposed job and pension cuts. It’s a mess. What, if anything, should the federal government do?”

Some Republicans in the Illinois House said the bill is another attempt to fix the broken Climate and Equitable Jobs Act.

According to the OIG, more than 1,500 incidents of abuse and neglect were reported over the past decade. Allegations include physical harm and lack of attention to the patients’ well being at the Choate Mental Health and Development Center in Anna. The report also shows a cover-up culture in which employees would collude with each other and provide false information to investigators about incidents at the facility.

“…The program shed a glaring light on the magnitude of parents seeking to free their children from the failing union-controlled Illinois public schools. According to test data released by the Illinois State Board of Education, a startling 70% of Illinois public school students fail to read at grade level, and 75% fail to meet proficiency in math.”

Once home to as many as 5,000 production employees, Stellantis idled the plant in February after sales of the Jeep Cherokee faltered and as the company works to transition much of its fleet to electric vehicles. Its remaining 1,219 production workers, some of whom were offered jobs at other plants, were laid off indefinitely.

Jim Dey: “During the ‘last fiscal year,’ the state awarded 1,631 grants totaling $62 million, according to the Illinois Secretary of State’s office. That averages $38,000 per grant. Roughly 97 percent of them went to public and school libraries. That’s not chump change. But the state grants are minimal share of budgets for libraries that are overwhelmingly funded by property taxes.”

State Rep. Anne Stava-Murray sponsored the legislation after a school board in her district was subject to pressure to ban certain content from school libraries. “While it’s true that kids need guidance, and that some ideas can be objectionable, trying to weaponize local government to force one-size-fits-all standards onto the entire community for reasons of bigotry, or as a substitute for active and involved parenting, is wrong,” she said.