Rich Miller
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Rich Miller runs CapitolFax.com, a blog focused on Illinois politics.
He has taken some heat for vetoing legislation to eliminate the state’s decades-old moratorium on new nuclear power reactors.
Mapes, once chief of staff for former House Speaker Mike Madigan, faces up to 20 years in prison for an obstruction of justice charge and another five years for perjury.
There is hope that a solution will be found and Serabi Medina’s funeral will be covered by the state.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker eventually pointed out on Twitter that House members, “including those who are now complaining about it,” had voted for the bill in question before the Senate Republicans “started spreading lies.”
The contract ended up with a fiscal year 2024 price tag of $204 million. So, where is that money in the budget, which passed a month before the negotiations ended?
Importantly, the majority opined that cash bail “was all but unknown” when the state’s original constitution was first approved in 1818, and the same basic language from that document remains in force today.
Mike Bost, a four-term congressman from southern Illinois, is now finding himself being challenged by former state legislator and gubernatorial candidate Darren Bailey.
The Illinois Supreme Court all but begged the General Assembly to take another look at the Biometric Information Privacy Act in a ruling that could ultimately cost the White Castle burger chain billions for collecting employee fingerprint scans.
The sharpest criticism came from activists. “Governor Pritzker is not different from Ron DeSantis hurting the most vulnerable immigrants,” the Healthy Illinois Campaign said in a statement.