It’s just a bill
Friday, May 21, 2021 - Posted by Rich Miller
* SJ-R…
An Illinois House committee Thursday unanimously approved a bill designed to create more racial, ethnic and gender diversity in the ownership of marijuana dispensaries.
“There is an entire ecosystem that needs to start to grow,” Toi Hutchinson, senior adviser to Gov. JB Pritzker on cannabis policy, said before the House Executive Committee voted 15-0 to send House Bill 1443 to the full House for a vote as soon as Friday.
Sponsored by state Rep. La Shawn Ford, D-Chicago, the bill would make the first major changes to the state’s recreational marijuana industry since Illinois lawmakers first allowed the cultivation, sale and use of cannabis to people 21 and older in Illinois in January 2020.
* Sun-Times…
Two of the state Senate’s newest members — the chamber’s first LGTBQ senator and a Republican farmer from southern Illinois — clashed Thursday over legislation meant to standardize sex education curriculums in the state.
State Sen. Darren Bailey, a downstate Republican running for governor, accused the bill’s Democratic sponsors of “pushing perversion in our schools.”
North Side state Sen. Mike Simmons, who is gay, called Bailey’s remark “deeply offensive” and asked that it be stricken from the record. […]
The Senate bill on sex education seeks to standardize the curriculum in Illinois schools, ensuring each grade “has the opportunity to be safe and … have access to age- and developmentally appropriate and medically accurate information,” according to the bill’s sponsor, state Sen. Ram Villivalam, D-Chicago.
* People get all upset at the littlest things…
A bill that would require schools to provide free menstrual hygiene products in all bathrooms for grades 4 through 12 passed the Illinois House and will now be up for consideration in the Senate. […]
Rep. Andrew Chesney, R-Freeport, said he was mostly concerned about the language requiring the products to be available in all bathrooms, which would include male bathrooms.
“There have been male and female bathrooms a hundred years plus in this country and nobody has had a problem taking care of the sensitive nature of being a certain gender,” Chesney said.
“But to perhaps put female products in male bathrooms is not only confusing to a sixth grader, but completely inapplicable. I would really appreciate it if the sponsor would stay the hell out of my bathrooms,” he added.
Hernandez said this is necessary so that male friends can help out their classmates in emergency situations. Rep. Kathleen Willis, D-Addison, added that this is also a more inclusive approach to protect transgender youth.
* I’ve been telling subscribers about this development for several days…
Measures in the Illinois House and Senate cued up for possible passage before the end of the month could ask voters to enshrine union protections in the state constitution.
State Sen. Ram Villivalam, D-Chicago, has Senate Joint Resolution Constitutional Amendment 11 making its way through the Senate.
“It proposes to amend the Illinois Constitution to provide that no law passes on or after the amendment’s enactment may prohibit the ability of workers to collectively bargain over wages, hours, terms and conditions,” Villivalam said during committee Wednesday.
The measure advanced out of committee without any debate.
If passed by the Senate, it would need to pass the House. A similar bill has been filed in the house. Voters would have the ultimate say in the 2022 statewide election.
…Adding… Overwhelming majority…
…Adding… “No” votes were Bailey, Barickman, Leader McConchie, Plummer, Stewart, Tracy and Sally Turner.
* Effingham Daily News editorial…
We’re all for a a bill that passed out of an Illinois Senate committee this week that would require high schools to offer instruction about understanding and evaluating news and social media as part of their computer literacy courses.
Sen. Terri Bryant, R-Murphysboro, questioned how objective schools could be in teaching students how to evaluate news stories by separating factual news from “fake news.”
She was told that teachers would be trained in how to instruct students in media usage and that the difference between fake news and real news is the same as the difference between fiction and nonfiction.
“So the teachers themselves would be deciding what’s fake news, by their own opinion,” Bryant said, according to Capitol News Illinois.
It sounds to us like Bryant could use that course herself.
Teaching critical thinking should always be central to the mission of our schools. That doesn’t mean the teacher decides whether a particular news story or social media post is factual. The teacher would help students learn for themselves how to separate facts from fiction and separate opinions from facts.
- Candy Dogood - Friday, May 21, 21 @ 10:52 am:
===pushing perversion in our schools===
Bailey’s getting some great earned media for his primary campaign with stuff like this. This is exactly the message he wants those voters to hear.
- Henry Francis - Friday, May 21, 21 @ 10:52 am:
Nice to hear from Toi. Was wondering where she has been the past couple of years as the state has failed to meet the equity goals of the Cannabis program.
- Flyin' Elvis'-Utah Chapter - Friday, May 21, 21 @ 10:55 am:
1) Please, please, please Illinois Republicans, make Darren Bailey your candidate for gov.
2) Asking Terri Bryant to comment on a bill regarding education is like asking a chair to comment on a bill regarding education.
- Nearly Normal - Friday, May 21, 21 @ 10:57 am:
Thank you Effingham Daily News! What I miss most from my teaching days is working with students to be better users of information in all its formats. Now more than ever students need the skills to maneuver in this world of social media as well as traditional news sources. Some of the fake news can be deadly.
- Smalls - Friday, May 21, 21 @ 10:59 am:
So they will try to amend the constitution to protect unions, but not to remove pension protections???? Illinois. Enough said.
- Excitable Boy - Friday, May 21, 21 @ 11:00 am:
- It sounds to us like Bryant could use that course herself. -
Excellent.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, May 21, 21 @ 11:01 am:
=== Toi Hutchinson, senior adviser to Gov. JB Pritzker on cannabis policy===
Next month, say… Food and Beverage advisor…
=== It sounds to us like Bryant could use that course herself.
Teaching critical thinking should always be central to the mission of our schools. That doesn’t mean the teacher decides whether a particular news story or social media post is factual.===
“No, no. Schools need to be teachin’ readin’, writin’, rithmetic, none of that critical thinkin’, that leads to brain washin’…”
- Trumpkins that need “alternative facts to be seen as truth… “maybe”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, May 21, 21 @ 11:04 am:
=== So they will try to amend the constitution to protect unions, but not to remove pension protections????===
71/36, then to the voters. Defeat it at the ballot box.
You either know that, or you want to be a victim to process without grasping what process means.
- Shark Sandwich - Friday, May 21, 21 @ 11:05 am:
“this (hygiene products) is necessary so that male friends can help out their classmates in emergency situations.”
Like a school shooting.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, May 21, 21 @ 11:07 am:
If Bailey is the nominee… Pritzker would almost *want* Bailey to speak, get on radio, have ads… all pushing his exclusions and old, angry, white, rural thinking.
We’ll see how the field in the primary finally shakes out.
- Donnie Elgin - Friday, May 21, 21 @ 11:14 am:
= enshrine union protections in the state constitution. State Sen. Ram Villivalam, D=
Not surprising, look at his 4th quarter committee donations:
Chicago Land Operators Joint Labor-Management PAC $59,500.00 - Nov 16, 2020. IL Pipe Trades PEF $46,400.00 -Nov 16, 2020.SEIU Illinois Council PAC Fund $33,780.65 -Sep 29, 2020.Chicago Teachers Union PAC $28,000.00 - Dec 31, 2020
Illinois Laborers’ Legislative Committee $27,500.00 - Nov 16, 2020. LIUNA Chicago Laborers’ District Council $25,000.00 -Nov 16, 2020. IPACE $25,000.00 - Nov 16, 2020.Illinois Federation of Teachers COPE $23,500.00 -Sep 29, 2020. Chicago Regional Council of Carpenters Political Action $20,500.00 -Oct 08, 2020
- Northsider - Friday, May 21, 21 @ 11:20 am:
== So they will try to amend the constitution to protect unions, but not to remove pension protections???? Illinois. Enough said. ==
Protecting workers instead of kicking them in the teeth? Why, it’s an outrage(banned punctuation) Hie thee to a fainting couch(banned punctuation)
- Roadiepig - Friday, May 21, 21 @ 11:23 am:
My wife asked me yesterday why I say Darren Bailey would never win a state wide office. The quote above is example number 573. It plays well for him when he hangs out in bars and shops in cities with populations of 250 or less. Just not enough for those people to put anybody in power state wide
- JS Mill - Friday, May 21, 21 @ 11:23 am:
=“pushing perversion in our schools.”=
Such a fine christian gentleman, always practicing the teachings like “judge ye not lest ye be judged”
=- It sounds to us like Bryant could use that course herself. -=
Mic drop.
=If Bailey is the nominee… Pritzker=
will save a whole heckuva lot of money on ads he will not have to run.
Letting Bailey do his schtick in the burbs and city. That will take care of everything.
Bailey is *@%#&?/ golden.
- Jocko - Friday, May 21, 21 @ 11:29 am:
==pushing perversion in our schools==
I’m surprised Darren didn’t finish his Jeanne Ives impression by saying “The homo-activists are at it again (exclamation point).”
- Merica - Friday, May 21, 21 @ 11:30 am:
The debate around equity and inclusion in cannabis is so silly. The bill was never intended to create real equity and inclusion. The bill created an immense bureaucracy, requiring indoor factory grow in facilities that cost at minimum, $3M to construct. 24/7 surveillance systems covering every square inch ($100k), water filtration and recycling systems ($200k). The spouse of the chief sponsor of the bill, got a job, right after, at one of the largest corporate grow operations in the country.
If you want real equity and inclusion in cannabis you need a licensing process that is as easy as getting a drivers license, and allowing people to grow outside. no state is doing this. i don’t know what the right answer is.
- levivotedforjudy - Friday, May 21, 21 @ 11:46 am:
Can a state government manipulate a consumer market to allow lessor experienced and capitalized producers into that market so they can compete against much larger entities with vast resources? I think the attempt on marijuana is admirable, but, if we were talking about cup cakes, soda or even cigars, would it be possible?
- Oswego Willy - Friday, May 21, 21 @ 12:03 pm:
=== Not surprising, look at his 4th quarter committee donations:===
I was told money is free speech… so there’s that.
71/36… stop it when you can on the ballot.
- TheInvisibleMan - Friday, May 21, 21 @ 12:06 pm:
– State Sen. Darren Bailey, a downstate Republican running for governor, accused the bill’s Democratic sponsors of “pushing perversion in our schools.” –
Bets on how long it is until Bailey get caught doing something perverted.
- 47th Ward - Friday, May 21, 21 @ 12:16 pm:
===“pushing perversion in our schools.”===
Senator Darren Bailey, 2021
“I think you’re some kind of deviated prevert.”
Colonel Bat Guano, 1964
- Huh? - Friday, May 21, 21 @ 12:42 pm:
===“pushing perversion in our schools.”===
Sex Ed has been in schools for a long, long time. I remember it from nearly 50 years ago.
- Last Bull Moose - Friday, May 21, 21 @ 12:59 pm:
We were taught about propaganda in 8th grade civics. Should be easy to teach using historical examples. Teachers could stay clear of current disputes. Teach the skill and let students use it on their own.
- Ducky LaMoore - Friday, May 21, 21 @ 1:08 pm:
“pushing perversion in our schools.”
Perverse? Like teaching abstinence only education in a school district with the highest rate of teen pregnancy in the state? That was my school 20 years ago.
- Rich Miller - Friday, May 21, 21 @ 1:22 pm:
===Illinois. Enough said. ===
- Nearly Normal - Friday, May 21, 21 @ 2:08 pm:
So some of the Republicans voted for SJRCA 11 since there are 41 Dems and 18 Repubs in the Senate.
- Jason - Friday, May 21, 21 @ 2:31 pm:
There is a big difference between critical thinking (which was common in previous generations as part of the natural course of study) and propaganda. The political beliefs of the teacher can greatly influence students so there is a legitimate concern that this could easily be abused.
- From DaZoo - Friday, May 21, 21 @ 2:37 pm:
Is it me or is editorial staff of Chicago Tribune and Effingham Daily News performing opposite world writing? I like EDN’s mic drop quote but aren’t they located in the “IL Eastern Bloc” region where majority of people would be opposed to this editorial view?