For all candidates, it’s a largely unregulated space that opens the door to overly fawning coverage, or even misinformation. Social media platforms do little to help viewers distinguish a campaign’s unpaid supporters from its paid contractors, and some politicians have turned to influencers to get their message out without facing the scrutiny and pesky questions provided by more traditional news outlets.

“I’m not trying to tell anybody how to vote, [but] I’ve seen this play before,” he said of Illinois’ far-left Democrat Gov. JB Pritzker and fellow leftists that control the state’s legislature. “Here’s the thing, what they’ve said in the past is going to be your best judge of what’s going to happen in the future.”

PJM Interconnection, the biggest grid operator in the U.S., has finally settled on a plan to prevent data centers from causing other customers’ utility bills to soar further in its 13-state territory that includes most of Northern Illinois. That plan relies heavily on states themselves, and the utilities they regulate, to force data centers to secure their own power supplies — or face the possibility of getting their power cut off during grid emergencies.

By this logic, Pritzker and Trump also would be demanding any company that raked it in during COVID (there were many) return its profits “to the public.” Ergo, letters should have been sent to Amazon, Microsoft and Zoom, to name three examples of companies who thrived in that health crisis…. Public companies, of course, aren’t in the habit of returning their profits to “the public,” which would not go down well with their shareholders. And neither Pritzker nor Trump mention the government’s share. The state of Illinois currently adds 65.3 cents per gallon while the feds take 18.4

Eileen Burke: “I’m going to be asking you and everybody you know and everybody who’s listening to this to please reach out to your legislators and tell them that you do not believe that violent criminals should be on electronic monitoring.”

The firms tied to former Ald. Isaac “Ike” Carothers and former Blagojevich administration official Bamani Obadele have gotten campaign business from Gov. JB Pritzker and in the hotly contested race for Chicago School Board president.

Term limits for governors take different forms in the U.S. Nine have lifetime caps, Virginia prohibits consecutive terms and 27 states allow governors who reach their limits to return only after spending a prescribed period out of office.