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Consumers Are Getting Slammed With Higher Electric Rates – Don’t Add Fuel To The Fire With ROFR
Wednesday, Aug 13, 2025 - Posted by Advertising Department [The following is a paid advertisement.] Illinois consumers are feeling the heat, both from triple-digit temperatures and soaring electricity bills. Ameren customers are seeing 18–22% rate hikes. ComEd has customers paying as much as triple-digit increases. And it’s going to get worse. In July, the PJM Capacity Auction hit another record high - a 22% increase on top of the record highs everyone just started paying. This will already lead to further rate increases next year! As frustration heats up, lawmakers must choose: support competition that drives prices down or fan the flames of electricity inflation with “Right of First Refusal” (ROFR) legislation. ROFR kills competition and boosts prices by giving incumbent utilities exclusive rights to build transmission lines. It’s so anti-competitive that both presidents - Biden and Trump - opposed it in 2020 and 2023. As the ICC has said, “The Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) believes that competition among transmission developers spurs innovative results and helps control costs.”  ROFR would send electricity prices even higher. Springfield should focus on long-term strategies to lower electricity bills, not raise them. As ROFR may resurface this fall, legislators should reject it and stand up for cost-cutting competition that benefits consumers.
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Tariffs Impact Everyone
Wednesday, Aug 13, 2025 - Posted by Advertising Department [The following is a paid advertisement.] The increased costs associated with tariffs impact all of us, affecting millions of people. Retailers like Luckeyia Murry, owner of Luckeyia’s Balloons & Distribution in Homewood, are faced with challenging business decisions because of escalating tariffs. Luckeyia has seen rising prices for balloons, helium tanks, and nearly every other item needed for her business. Despite these obstacles, she, like many small retailer owners, remains committed to her community and her business. The Illinois Retail Merchants Association has found that while retailers are trying to hold-off on price increases, it’s impossible to absorb the extra expenses for numerous business owners who function on very small margins – which forces consumers to pay more. Retailers like Luckeyia Murry enrich our economy and strengthen our communities, even during the uncertainty of increased tariff expenses. IRMA is showcasing some of the many retailers who continue to make Illinois work.
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SB 328: Protects Working People & Helps Fight Trump’s Predatory MAGA Agenda
Wednesday, Aug 13, 2025 - Posted by Advertising Department [The following is a paid advertisement.] The same front groups, associations and companies that are backing Trump’s predatory MAGA agenda of raising prices, slashing Medicaid, and gutting the Environmental Protection Agency, Food & Drug Administration, and Occupational Safety and Health Administration are also against SB 328. They wrongly believe our state can’t be pro-worker and pro-business, and want Illinois to turn its back on people who have shared their stories about big corporations that have poisoned them or their loved ones: “Because of my career, I was exposed to a tremendous amount of asbestos coming from various automotive companies. These companies came into our state, sold their products, and now are trying to skirt having to pay for what they did [by] trying to make me file a lawsuit in the state where they are headquartered, or ever worse, in Germany or some other country when all of the asbestos was in Illinois? That doesn’t seem fair.” — Retired union mechanic from Chicago suburbs suffering from asbestos-caused cancer SB 328 is good legislation and another way to show that Illinois will always stand up for working families and the most vulnerable. For more information about SB 328, click here.
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