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Isabel’s morning briefing

Friday, Dec 15, 2023 - Posted by Isabel Miller

* ICYMI: Regulators once again reject a record rate increase request from ComEd and Peoples Gas. Sun-Times

    - The Illinois Commerce Commission rejected Peoples Gas’ request for “clarification” on its order last month that cut off spending for the pipe program pending an investigation into the project.

    - The order slashed a request from the utility to raise rates on its 884,000 Chicago customers by a collective $402 million, down to $301 million.

    - The panel previously noted it “will not remove any funding related to emergency response to leaks, pipe breaks, or other critical safety measures.”

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    * WJBC | Candidates for March primary election in Illinois assigned their spots: The process of determining which candidates place where on the Illinois primary election ballot is high-tech enough to attract an audience on Zoom – and simple enough to require only Ping Pong balls and a wooden box. “I do think the lack of complexities makes it easier for us to have a transparent process,” said Brent Davis, director of election operations for the Illinois State Board of Elections. “Not much can go wrong with an empty box and a set of Lotto balls.”

    * Crain’s | Thompson Center assessed at more than double 2022 sale price: Kaegi’s office pegged the market value of the 17-story building at 100 W. Randolph St. at $222.8 million for tax year 2023, according to the assessor’s website. That estimate represents what the assessor thinks the property was worth as of the beginning of this year, which is the key number used to determine its next property tax bill. It also marked the first time the assessor’s office estimated the value of the Thompson Center, since it was owned by the state of Illinois and tax-exempt from its completion in 1985 until it was sold last year.

    * SJ-R | Haley issues apology; has backing of NAACP branch presidents: The one-minute-and-forty-eight-second video of Haley making the remarks during an NAACP state presidents’ meeting last month was recorded and made public by former NAACP DuPage County president Patrick Watson. It was a segment in a nearly two-hour-long video.

* Here’s the rest of your morning roundup…

       

10 Comments
  1. - Stuck in Celliniland - Friday, Dec 15, 23 @ 8:07 am:

    Maybe it’s time for WTVP to become a repeater of either WSIU (which now covers the Springfield and western Illinois areas through WSEC and their repeaters) or WILL.

    In addition to WTVP, perhaps either of them could also acquire WQPT Moline from WIU and apply to get their Sterling repeater into a full power station that would try to target Rockford.

    And make efforts to finally develop at least a downstate-wide PBS network. Over 50 years or so after it should have happened.


  2. - We've never had one before - Friday, Dec 15, 23 @ 8:26 am:

    >>>> SJ-R | Pritzker lights menorah in Springfield, calls for Illinoisans to defy hate:

    Hanuka is not about trying to disarm yourselves and your neighbors. Judah Maccabee would not be very happy with JB. Hanuka is about standing your ground to be able to believe and worship as you choose.


  3. - Techie - Friday, Dec 15, 23 @ 9:29 am:

    I’m supportive of the NACCP and their mission, but the comments by Hayley are pretty awful. A certain former President said similar things and was rightfully slammed as a bigot for doing so - seems there is a bit of a double-standard at play here.


  4. - Rich Miller - Friday, Dec 15, 23 @ 10:38 am:

    ===not about trying to disarm yourselves ===

    Leave it to a gun enthusiast to mansplain to the Jewish governor who helped build a Holocaust museum.


  5. - Grandson of Man - Friday, Dec 15, 23 @ 11:34 am:

    “The state claims that the prison jobs prepare inmates for after their release”

    Work for free now to prepare for low RTWFL wages later.


  6. - Lurker - Friday, Dec 15, 23 @ 11:47 am:

    I’m just excited that when they passed the 18 new laws in education they funded them all fully. /s


  7. - Stuck in Celliniland - Friday, Dec 15, 23 @ 11:49 am:

    This is the same Teresa Haley and the same Springfield NAACP who blocked Helping Hands proposed state of the art health and human services facility on 11th Street in 2019 that would have gone a long way in easing the homelessness issues in the city.

    The next summer, in the midst of the pandemic, Springfield ended up with Tent City on Carpenter in between the hospitals.


  8. - H-W - Friday, Dec 15, 23 @ 12:11 pm:

    @ We’ve Never Had One Before

    Hanukkah is a time of renewal. It is a time of rededication to God’s Will. It is a time for Peace.

    Your definition is offensive.


  9. - Demoralized - Friday, Dec 15, 23 @ 3:59 pm:

    ==Hanuka==

    Maybe spell it right if you’re going to hold yourself out as an expert on it.

    ==Hanuka is about standing your ground ==

    No, it’s not.

    You have royally embarassed yourself here.


  10. - Rich Miller - Friday, Dec 15, 23 @ 4:05 pm:

    ===You have royally embarassed yourself here. ===

    You shoulda seen the one I deleted. Whew.


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