Afternoon roundup
Monday, Apr 3, 2023 - Posted by Isabel Miller
* From Heather Wier Vaught’s excellent weekend newsletter…
LEGISLATIVE
Schedule: Both chambers met [last] week. Friday was the Third Reading deadline in the Senate, and they finished early in the day without any major incidents. In total, the Senate passed 265 bills over to the House, and the House passed 443 bills to the Senate. Members will be back in their district offices for the next two weeks, and both chambers reconvene April 18-20.
Senate Hearings on Chicago Elected School Board: The General Assembly is tasked with drawing districts for the soon-to-be elected Chicago Board of Education. The Senate’s Special Committee on the Chicago Elected Representative School Board will hold hearings throughout Chicago April 5 through 17 to gather public input. The public may provide in-person testimony, submit written testimony, or submit witness slips in advance of the hearings via email at ChicagoERSBCommittee@senatedem.ilga.gov.
House Appropriations-Higher Education Procurement Subcommittee: House Appropriations-Higher Education Committee Chair, LaShawn Ford, announced the creation of a new subcommittee aimed at examining equity and inclusion in university procurements. Chairman Ford stated in a press release, “There is disparity in the number of contracts awarded to Black, Brown, and women contractors,” “The subcommittee would be examining what policies, if any, lead these institutions to not award contracts equitably, or if they hold standards that could dissuade companies from pursuing project bids.” Illinois has some of the most robust procurement laws in the country, and contractors and vendors often find the process difficult to navigate. Last year the General Assembly created a new Task Force on Procurement to undertake a comprehensive review of procurement laws and policies, including those that apply to universities. Universities are subject to the provisions of the Procurement Code and oversight by the Chief Procurement Officer for Higher Education.
Mary Gill Appointed to the House: Mary Gill was appointed to fill the vacancy of State Representative Fran Hurley, who Governor Pritzker appointed to the State Labor Relations Board. Gill is the Executive Director of the Mt. Greenwood Community and Business Association (MGCBA).
JUDICIAL
Plaintiffs in Assault Weapon Case Move to Disqualify Justices: Plaintiffs in the assault weapon ban case before the Illinois Supreme Court moved to disqualify Justices Elizabeth Rochford and Mary Kay O’Brien based on campaign contributions from Governor Pritzker, Speaker Welch, and attorneys representing President Harmon. Candidates for the judiciary are prohibited from soliciting or accepting campaign funds themselves, rather contributions to judicial candidate committees must be solicited and accepted by others. The Act being challenged was passed after the 2022 election, and contributions to the committees supporting the new justices were publicly available. Plaintiffs chose to named the Governor, Speaker, and President as defendants in the case, and now seek to use the named defendants as justification for the recusal of the two recently-elected justices.
This is not the first time campaign contributions have been used to attempt to disqualify justices in high profile cases. In 2005, plaintiffs in Avery v State Farm moved to disqualify then recently-elected Justice Lloyd Karmeier citing campaign contributions the committee supporting Karmeier received from State Farm and its employees. Justice Karmeier stated he would not recuse himself and the court denied the motion as moot. In 2014, plaintiffs in Price v Philip Morris moved to disqualify Justice Karmeier for the same contributions. Justice Karmeier wrote a 16-page opinion explaining his reasoning for not recusing, relying heavily on the rule of necessity, which holds that absent a clear reason to recuse a justice should hear a case, and no member of the court sought his recusal. He ultimately participated in both cases, in which billions of dollars were at stake for all parties in the case. Unlike the plaintiffs in Avery or Price, none of the defendants in this case have any financial interest in the outcome of the pending lawsuit, merely policy and political interests. More here.
* More…
* ABC Chicago | ‘I couldn’t save him’: Son recounts final moments before father killed in Belvidere roof collapse : “I just remember seeing all these people lifting the roof off of the people. And just trying to pull people out and seeing somebody not moving being pulled out was terrifying,” said concert-goer Christina Johnson. Outside the venue, high winds tore down the theater’s marquee, with bricks littering the street.
* Nebraska Examiner | Former Illinois prison chief being named to head Nebraska Department of Corrections: Jeffreys will succeed Diane Sabatka-Rine, who had served as interim director of the Nebraska of Corrections since October, when Scott Frakes retired. Frakes had led the Nebraska department since 2015, shortly after then-Gov. Pete Ricketts was elected to his first term, and was paid $255,000 a year — one of the highest salaries for a corrections director in the
* Crain’s | Walmart heirs pour money into pro-charter school groups backing Paul Vallas: The Walton family, both through individual relatives of Sam and Helen Walton and the Walton Family Foundation, is influential in the charter school space, spending hundreds of millions on education efforts across the country. That includes Chicago, where they’ve funded the launch of charter schools and donated to school-choice advocacy groups.
* Beatriz Diaz-Pollack | The culture wars have infected school and library board elections in Illinois: On March 24, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a measure with the deceivingly innocuous introduction, “To ensure the rights of parents are honored and protected in the nation’s public schools.” Make no mistake: This bill is a proverbial wolf in sheep’s clothing and will have devastating effects, including right here in Illinois.
* WBEZ | Chicago State University faculty walk out on strike: In a written statement released over the weekend, university administrators said all support services and most, if not all, classes would continue during the strike. They said they have offered an additional bargaining session on Tuesday, but the union has yet to confirm it.
* Crain’s | Workers at 3 Navy Pier venues OK strike: Ahead of the strike vote yesterday, the National Labor Relations Board’s Region 13 filed a complaint Feb. 24 against Maverick Hotels & Restaurants, which employs the workers. The NLRB has alleged that the company has violated the National Labor Relations Act and “has been failing and refusing to bargain collectively and in good faith and failing to provide information necessary for the Union’s performance of its duties,” the agency said in a news release.
* Crain’s | Clayco unit taps Schnur as chief operating officer: The move comes less than a year after CRG raised $450 million to invest in industrial development projects, a commercial property sector that thrived during the COVID-19 pandemic as companies clamored for warehouse space to store and distribute goods bought online. Schnur also takes the operational reins at CRG after a series of regional office expansions over the past few years.
* Axios | Important elections to watch in Chicago’s suburbs: Pandemic precautions and culture wars over what’s taught in schools have thrust these previously sleepy, nonpartisan races into the center of political debate. Conservative groups have poured thousands of dollars into several suburban school board races and library board elections, only to be matched by Governor Pritzker and other Democrats.
* Sun-Times | Data centers keep coming, but not all deals will compute: Experts believe that as artificial intelligence gains acceptance, it will increase demand for data centers. Chicago is well positioned for this. A 2023 report by Cushman & Wakefield said among global markets, Chicago is tied for 5th place in its appeal for data centers. The ranking is based on factors such as land costs, reliable utilities and state-authorized tax incentives.
* PJ Star | Ask the candidates: What is your view on regulation of the cannabis industry in Peoria?: Here’s what we asked: What is your view on the regulation of the cannabis industry in Peoria? Should the city impose additional restrictions on the number and location of dispensaries? Should it allow on-site consumption of cannabis products at dispensaries?
* Media Matters | With conventional abortion pill regimens likely to be pulled, anti-choice activists are increasingly attacking a safe alternative: If mifepristone ceases to be widely available, clinics are expected to prescribe misoprostol-only protocols for medication abortions, a common regimen in other countries. Though misoprostol-only abortions do have a slightly higher failure rate and a higher incidence of side effects compared to mifepristone and misoprostol taken together, the World Health Organization and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists have identified abortions via misoprostol as a safe and effective alternative when mifepristone is unavailable. Misoprostol is currently approved by the FDA to treat ulcers, meaning that doctors who prescribe the medication for abortions do so “off-label,” which is allowed “as long as it is within the standard of care.”
* AP | Man gets new trial in Chicago honor student’s death:Micheail Ward was found guilty in connection with the death of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton and sentenced to 84 years in prison in 2019.[2] The Chicago Sun-Times reported Friday that the 1st District Appellate Court ruled that detectives improperly extracted a confession from Ward after he invoked his right to remain silent at least three times during a 12-hour interrogation.[3] Ward was 18 years old at the time of the shooting.
* ProPublica | The True Dangers of Long Trains: Today, the rail administration says it lacks enough evidence that long trains pose a particular risk. But ProPublica discovered it is a quandary of the agency’s own making: It doesn’t require companies to provide certain basic information after accidents — notably, the length of the train — that would allow it to assess once and for all the extent of the danger.
* Fox Chicago | Illinois State Police trooper injured after driver strikes squad car on I-94: The trooper’s vehicle was blocking traffic from entering the flooded southbound lanes of Interstate 94 around 8:20 p.m. due to a major storm that had passed through the area, according to ISP.
* Pantagraph | Here are some takeaways from the first two weeks of Illinois spring practice: Illinois wrapped up its second week of spring practice with a scrimmage on Saturday. It got some windy and cold conditions as a preview to a third fall under coach Bret Bielema. That didn’t stop kickers Caleb Griffin and David Olano from hitting 57-yard field goals at the end of the afternoon, or new quarterbacks Luke Altmyer and John Paddock.
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* Awake Illinois has unveiled all of its school board endorsements on its website. They endorsed three candidates in the race for Lyons Township High School board…
Awake Illinois supports Tim Vlcek, Frank Evans and David Herndon. The other candidates are incumbents Kari Dillon and Jill Beda Daniels and newcomers Tim Albores and Justin Clark. Three seats are available in the election. […]
In an email, Vlcek said, “I’m unaware of any endorsement from Awake nor have I requested one. I’ve run my own campaign delivering my message on my platform.”
Herndon said in an email that he did not seek the endorsement and that Awake did not speak with him about it.
“I made it clear from the start of my campaign since this was supposedly a nonpartisan election, I was not seeking or wanting any endorsements from any political organizations, and therefore I do not accept it,” he said. “I have received a broad range of endorsements from people that I have never met or spoken to. Because someone endorses me does not mean I absorb their platforms or values. All of this outside influence from all sides is distracting from the issues in this race which is how best to educate kids and bring transparency and public engagement back to the Board. If the Board was doing their job there would not be all of this influence pouring in from all sides.”
Vleck attended an Awake Illinois workshop in January. Vleck, Evans and Herndon were backed by an anonymous mailer last month.
* In Elmhurst, Awake Illinois is supporting Linda Nudera, Lan Li, Tom Chavez and Jammie Esker Schaer…
In response, Nudera emailed a statement saying she was not aware of the endorsement and was not part of the group.
But she said that after a review of Awake’s website, the group is “not just a platform for concerned parents, but they support inner-city initiatives like Project HOOD and our military Veterans – both honorable philanthropies.” […]
“I find irony in the fact that Democratic organizations are supporting a slate of homogeneous women for the school board versus a heterogeneous panel made up of both men and women, multicultural with diverse skill sets,” Nudera said. […]
In an email, Li said he is independent and has no involvement with Awake. He said he has received just one donation – $100 from an old friend in Arlington Heights. He said he has paid for everything else.
“Concerning the endorsement from Awake Illinois, I have not been directly contacted or interviewed by any of its members,” Li said. “My assumption is that they endorsed me based on my website and word of mouth. Maybe they believe that I am not as radical as some of the other candidates. Nonetheless, I have no control over who finds me agreeable or disagreeable.”
* Elmhurst also had an anonymous mailer. Patch…
A door hanger was spread in Elmhurst over the weekend urging residents to “save our children.”
The door hanger, which was authored anonymously, asked residents to vote in Tuesday’s election against incumbents Courtenae Trautmann and Beth Hosler and newcomers Kelly Henry and Kelly Asseff. […]
Then the flyer ended with a grammatical mistake.
“End Woke Policy’s and teach Math, Reading and Writing,” it said.
“Policy’s” is not possessive in this instance. It should have read “policies.”
* Awake Illinois is supporting Catherine Greenspon and Andrew Catton for Hinsdale High School District 86 board…
Greenspon said who endorses her doesn’t change who she is and what she stands for.
“That any group or individual would endorse me when I so openly stand for collaboration and unity gives me hope,” Greenspon said in an email. “My actions speak louder than words. My whole adult life has been dedicated to serving others. That’s who I am today and who I will be after all the votes are counted.”
At board meetings, Greenspon said, “I talk to everyone. I want for everyone to feel welcome to conversation, feel seen and feel heard. Throughout this campaign, I have been supported by a diverse group of people, which is representative of our school district.” […]
The endorsement of Catton was not a surprise. He has aired views that resemble those of Awake. Last year, he posted a story titled “Assume Public Schools Sexually Abuse Your Kids Til Proven Otherwise.” In January, Patch documented some of Catton’s social media posts.
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Today’s quotable
Monday, Apr 3, 2023 - Posted by Rich Miller
* Assistant U.S. Attorney Amarjeet S. Bhachu during redirect with the prosecution’s star witness, former ComEd VP Fidel Marquez…
Thoughts?
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Meanwhile, in Opposite Land…
Monday, Apr 3, 2023 - Posted by Isabel Miller
* NBC…
With little fanfare, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation Monday allowing residents to carry a concealed loaded weapon without a permit.
DeSantis signed the bill in a non-public event in his office with only bill sponsors, legislative leaders and gun rights advocates, including the National Rifle Association, in attendance. […]
Florida is now the 26th state in the country to pass some form of permitless carry legislation. The signing comes one week after six people, including three children were gunned down at The Covenant School in Nashville.
“This is a momentous step in the Constitutional Carry movement as now the majority of American states recognize the Constitution protects the right for law-abiding Americans to defend themselves outside their homes without fees or permits,” Randy Kozuch, interim executive director, NRA-ILA, said in a statement, which included a picture of the event. “The carry movement began decades ago and the NRA has been working to get this legislation passed throughout America. Therefore, today is indeed a day to celebrate.”
Opponents of the proposal have said it will increase gun violence, and they said it was telling that DeSantis did not hold a public signing ceremony like he has done in the past for other high-profile bills.
* It should be no surprise that there’s more out of Florida…
Florida’s ban on providing gender-affirming care to new patients went into effect this month after the state’s Boards of Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine voted to approve the rule last year. Under the rule, gender-affirming care includes treatments like puberty blockers, hormone replacement therapy and surgery. The ban makes an exception to allow minors who were already receiving this care before January 2023 to continue their treatments.
“Everybody is in a kind of chaos right now,” said Joseph Knoll, a nurse practitioner and the CEO of Spektrum Health, a community-based health center located in central Florida that specializes in medical and mental health services for the LGBTQ community and beyond. He told me that the new rules leave healthcare professionals who provide this care “feeling helpless.”
Doctors and other practitioners who violate the ban could lose their medical license and be hit with hefty fines. Many are even considering leaving the state, given the uncertainty of future restrictions on their practice. Part of the dismay comes from feeling that the deck has been unfairly stacked. Local news outlets have reported that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis appointed all the members of the “vociferously apolitical” Board of Medicine, several of whom made contributions to his campaign totaling $80,000. DeSantis is reportedly considering running for president in 2024 and gender-affirming care is an issue that many conservative lawmakers have been pushing across the country. […]
Florida, unlike the other states, initially chose not to take a legislative route, instead moving ahead via state medical boards. A bill, though, is currently making its way through the Florida House of Representatives to codify the ban on gender-affirming care. This bill also includes a ban on changing the sex as recorded on a birth certificate, prohibits health insurance providers from covering any treatments related to youth transitioning and prohibits organizations that provide transition-related healthcare to minors from receiving public funds.
Already, this has led to clinics shutting down preemptively. Outlets reported that the Johns Hopkins All Children Hospital in St. Petersburg and Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami, among others, stopped accepting new patients into programs that provided hormones or puberty blockers well before the law went into effect. The fear of prosecution leaves few providers still offering these services.
* Kentucky…
Kentucky state Sen. Karen Berg had to deal with the most devastating thing a mother could imagine.
In December last year, Berg’s transgender son Henry Berg-Brosseau died by suicide. He was just 24 and a prominent LGBTQ rights activist who inspired his mother to run for office. […]
Two weeks later, Berg was awash with grief but had to pick herself up and go to the state Capitol for the 2023 legislative session. She says she felt exhausted. […]
More than two months later, she watched her Republican colleagues, one by one, vote to override a veto on Senate Bill 150, banning all gender-affirming medical care for trans youth in Kentucky including puberty blockers and hormone therapy.
For public schools, the bill restricts which bathrooms students can use and puts limits on discussing gender and sexuality. It also allows teachers to refer to students by their gender assigned at birth.
It’s exactly what her son Henry fought against.
* Mississippi…
House Bill 1020, which would significantly increase state control over Jackson’s judicial system and policing, passed the Mississippi House, 72-41, on Friday, sending one of the most controversial bills of the 2023 session to the governor’s desk as lawmakers wind down their work for the year.
Democratic leadership promised the bill, if it is signed into law by Gov. Tate Reeves, will see legal challenges immediately upon taking effect on July 1.
“Legal action takes place when there is a cause of action. Cause of action does not become effective until the law actually is enacted. As soon as this bill becomes law, there will be lawsuits filed,” House Minority Leader Robert Johnson, D-Natchez, said.
It would create a new unelected court system within an expanded Capitol Complex Improvement District, add temporary appointed judges to the Hinds County court system, increase the boundaries of the CCID and allow Capitol Police to work outside of that area, expanding their jurisdiction to include the entire city, all of which local leaders have opposed.
* Texas…
A federal judge in Texas ruled that at least 12 books removed from public libraries by Llano County officials, many because of their LGBTQ and racial content, must be placed back onto shelves within 24 hours, according to an order filed Thursday.
Seven residents sued county officials in April 2022, claiming their First and 14th Amendment rights were violated when books deemed inappropriate by some people in the community and Republican lawmakers were removed from public libraries or access was restricted.
The lawsuit filed in the US District Court for the Western District of Texas in San Antonio claimed county officials removed books from the shelves of the three-branch public library system “because they disagree with the ideas within them” and terminated access to thousands of digital books because they could not ban two specific titles.
Books ordered to return to shelves include “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents” by Isabel Wilkerson, “They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group” by Susan Campbell Bartoletti and “Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen” by Jazz Jennings.
* Wisconsin…
Control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, and likely the future of abortion access, Republican-drawn legislative maps and years of GOP policies in the key swing state rests with the outcome an election Tuesday that has seen record campaign spending.
The winner of the high-stakes contest between Republican-backed Dan Kelly and Democratic-supported Janet Protasiewicz will determine majority control of the court headed into the 2024 presidential election. The court came within one vote of overturning President Joe Biden’s narrow win in 2020, and both sides expect another close race in 2024.
It’s the latest election where abortion rights has been the central issue since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last June. It’s also an example of how officially nonpartisan court races have grown into political battles as major legal fights play out at the state level.
All of it has fueled spending that will double, and likely triple or more, the previous high of $15.4 million spent on a state court race in Illinois in 2004. Democrats have spent heavily for Protasiewicz and Republicans for Kelly.
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Question of the day
Monday, Apr 3, 2023 - Posted by Rich Miller
* I had booked a train last week to Chicago on Friday evening. I figured it would be delayed because of the major storms rolling through. So I wasn’t surprised to receive a message saying it was, indeed, delayed. The train eventually departed at 8 o’clock, but it stopped a few minutes later, and then it began to back up. The conductor came on the intercom to tell us that downed power lines were on the tracks ahead, so the train would go back to the Springfield station to wait. I pulled out my iPad and booked a train for the next morning, figuring there was no way in heck that train would begin moving at any sort of reasonable hour. I got off the train and went back home and woke up to see the next morning that Amtrak had waited until 3:30 AM to cancel the route.
Oy. Those poor people.
Saturday morning, I received a text from Amtrak saying there was a problem with my train and its departure would be delayed by 20 minutes. A friend took me to the station and we arrived about 15 minutes before the train’s delayed departure. He suggested I look up the train’s status online to see if anything had changed. I did, and nothing had changed. I walked into the station only to find out that the train had left at its originally scheduled time, about five minutes before I got there.
Ugh. The first train couldn’t be helped, but that second one is on Amtrak.
I ended up renting a car online, but Hertz didn’t have a car when my friend (same guy) took me over there an hour later.
Argh.
I finally got out of town after booking a rental car from Budget over the phone.
Anyway, while frustrating, my experiences were nothing at all compared to some of the devastation that occurred in Illinois due to that major storm.
* The Question: Did you have any storm damage on Friday, or do you have any interesting storm-related stories to tell about Friday?
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It’s just a bill
Monday, Apr 3, 2023 - Posted by Isabel Miller
* Rep. Kam Buckner now has the bill in the House…
Press release…
To ensure local governments do not compromise driver or pedestrian safety in order to accommodate large trucks on non-designated highways, State Senator Mike Simmons passed a measure out of the Senate on Friday.
“Construction on highways can be time consuming, dangerous and can significantly impact traffic flow,” said Simmons (D-Chicago). “This legislation will allow local governments to avoid such a big undertaking by not requiring them to change their non-designated highways to accommodate larger trucks and vehicles.”
Senate Bill 2278 provides that an agency or local government will not be required to design, construct, widen or alter a non-designated highway to accommodate trucks between 55 and 65 feet in length. Additionally, a local government will be required to report to the Illinois Department of Transportation any limitations that prohibit the operation of vehicles on non-designated highways and any non-designated highway that is not designed or constructed after Jan. 1, 2023 to accommodate trucks between 55 and 65 feet in length.
“Widening intersections to accommodate these larger trucks takes away space that can be used for bike lanes, pedestrian walkways and green space,” Simmons said. “This is an unnecessary undertaking for what is, on many roads, only an occasional need.”
* HB3413 passed the House and is now in Senate Assignments. Here’s ProPublica…
In January, a ProPublica investigation revealed that institutions have not returned the remains of at least 15,461 Native Americans who were excavated from Illinois. We also revealed how the Illinois State Museum had for decades displayed open Native American graves at Dickson Mounds, a burial site that was billed as a tourist attraction and then as an “educational” exhibit before its closure in the 1990s. […]
State Rep. Mark L. Walker, a Democrat who represents part of Chicago’s northwest suburbs, said he introduced the bill after leaders of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation brought the issue to his attention. Walker, who has a master’s degree in anthropology, said it is “atrocious” that some museums and universities still keep the human remains and funerary items of Native Americans. […]
If passed by the Senate and signed into law, the bill would create a cemetery on state land where repatriated Native American ancestors and their belongings could be reburied. The state would be responsible for protecting the cemetery, which would not be for public use, from potential looting or vandalization. […]
The bill would establish a Tribal Repatriation Fund, which could only be used to help return ancestors and items and for reburial and would help pay for repatriation work using money from fines and other penalties collected from individuals or organizations that knowingly disturb burial sites.
* News-Gazette…
It will be easier for customers to pick up their prescriptions at drug stores if a bill sponsored by state Sen. Chapin Rose passes the Illinois House and is signed into law. […]
Rose said that currently a pharmacist can be in the building, but if he or she is taking lunch, a prescription that has been filled cannot be dispensed until he or she returns to work. It can make for a major inconvenience — and in some cases an emergency — for some people. […]
Andy Hudson of Hudson Drug Shop of Paxton said the bill seems designed to help the chain pharmacies because they generally only have one pharmacist on duty.
“Unfortunately that ultimately puts things on businesses like us who want to do things the high-quality way at even more of a disadvantage,” Hudson said. […]
“It’s a good access-to-care bill,” Rose said, adding he believes it is likely the House will pass it.
* Marijuana Moment…
The Illinois Senate has approved legislation that would prevent the smell of marijuana from being used as probable cause to search a vehicle or its passengers.
The Senate voted 33–20 on Thursday to pass the bill, SB 125. It’s now set to be considered by the state’s House of Representatives. […]
A striking amendment from [the bill’s sponsor, Sen. Rachel Ventura] that was approved on the Senate floor Thursday replaced the bill’s language as it was originally introduced in January.
As passed by the body, the bill says that “if a motor vehicle is driven or occupied by an individual 21 years of age or over, the odor of burnt or raw cannabis in a motor vehicle by itself shall not constitute probable cause for the search of the motor vehicle, vehicle operator, or passengers in the vehicle.”
* Illinois Community College Board…
A bill that would equalize the value of major course credits at all Illinois higher education institutions reducing the time and money students spend towards earning a degree has unanimously passed out of the Illinois Senate.
SB2288 strengthens the Illinois Articulation Initiative (IAI) Act (110 ILCS 152) by requiring public colleges and universities to accept all major coursesapproved for transfer through IAI as equivalent major courses, as long as a specific major is offered at the receiving institution.
Under current law, 4-year institutions can accept IAI major courses as either direct course equivalents or as elective credits. As a result, some students transferring to a public university must repeat courses already completed at a community college level in order to complete a degree at the university level.
“Students that earn major coursework credit at a community college should not have to spend more precious time and money to re-earn the same credit at a four-year university. This legislation will reduce the burden on our students and accelerate the time it takes them to earn a degree and start a meaningful career,” said bill sponsor Sen. Cristina Castro (D-Elgin).
The bill is part of the Illinois Community College Board’s (ICCB) larger initiative to increase access to educational opportunities and strengthen Illinois’ growing workforce. […]
The bill now moves to the Illinois House of Representatives for approval.
* State Journal-Register…
Senate Bill 1463 from state Sen. Robert Peters, D-Chicago, passed on Wednesday in a 37-19 vote and would eliminate the issuing of nearly all juvenile court fines and fees if [it passes the House and then] signed into law by Gov. JB Pritzker.
Individuals under the age of 18 would still owe restitution for violations of traffic, boating, fishing or game law along with municipal ordinance violations. The bill has received its first reading in the state House of Representatives and is now in the House Rules Committee. […]
Peters said the real impact is often felt when families have to take-on credit card debt to cover their fines and fees. […]
Still, Republicans voting against the bill were concerned that this would be a financial loss for counties. State Sen. Jill Tracy, R-Quincy, said during floor debate on Wednesday that Adams County, her home county, issued $22,000 in fines either last year or in 2021. … The Illinois Sheriff’s Association also opposes the legislation.
* SB380 passed the Senate Friday…
When Bloomington resident Curt Richardson got his DNA test results back from Ancestry.com, his life – and those of his parents – changed forever when they learned they had been victims of fertility fraud.
Richardson’s story is similar to hundreds of others across the state and nation who have lived most of their lives thinking the very people who raised them were their biological parents. State Senator Dave Koehler is working to bring awareness to fertility fraud and provide justice to the families who fall victim to the heinous act.
“Fertility fraud is an issue that has been overlooked for far too long,” said Koehler (D – Peoria). “This is a horrible practice that has gone unpunished. Illinois needs to join other states in taking a stand for those who have been affected by this horrendous act.”
Fertility fraud occurs when a health care provider knowingly or intentionally uses their own human reproductive cells during an assisted reproductive treatment without the patient’s informed written consent.
When Richardson received his at-home DNA test results in June of 2021, he knew he couldn’t be silent. Richardson reached out to Koehler for help to ensure that if any other Illinoisans becomes victim of fertility fraud, they would be able to take legal action.
Senate Bill 380 would create the Illinois Fertility Fraud Act, which would allow people to bring action against health care providers who knowingly or intentionally use their own reproductive cells without the patient’s informed written consent.
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That toddlin’ town roundup
Monday, Apr 3, 2023 - Posted by Rich Miller
* It’s just a poll, and we’ll know the real numbers soon enough, but Victory Research has now done four head-to-heads on the Vallas vs. Johnson race…
2/12-15: Vallas 46, Johnson 33
3/6-9: Vallas 45, Johnson 39
3/20-23: Vallas 46, Johnson 44
3/29-31: Vallas 50, Johnson 45
If this poll is right, then the undecideds are breaking toward Vallas and he’s finally moved above that 45-46 level he’d been stuck at for weeks.
If you compare the last two polls and look at where the candidates have moved at or beyond the overall 3.2 percent margin of error in the final poll (even though the MoE for these subsets are larger), you’ll see Vallas has moved up a bit with both men and women. He’s now equal with Johnson among women and leading Johnson by 13 big points among men.
Vallas’ numbers also increased by 5 points in Lakefront wards, and the poll found him ahead there by 9 points. Vallas moved up 4 points among Latinos and led by 7 in the latest survey.
Johnson was leading among 18-30s by 20, but they don’t vote in large numbers. Vallas was ahead by 11 points among seniors, and they do vote in large numbers.
Of those who hadn’t yet voted, Vallas led by 7 points. The two were tied among those who’d voted already.
* Crain’s…
Meanwhile, though Johnson pulled in another $125,000 over the weekend from the American Federation of Teachers union, United Working Families and state Sen. Mattie Hunter, D-Chicago, Vallas, yet again, pulled in a lot more. Vallas’ weekend haul topped $410,000, including another $100,000 from Koch Foods CEO Joe Grendys (the chicken processing mogul already had donated $200,000), $50,000 from airplane maintenance exec Neil Book and $25,000 from Merchandise Mart Properties.
The ad disparity on Chicago TV is simply breathtaking.
* Instead of paying these bills long ago, or immediately correcting the problem, Johnson initially brushed it all off and then flip-flopped, thereby extending the story and bringing in other news media outlets which had ignored the original piece, like the Tribune…
Chicago mayoral candidate Brandon Johnson paid off more than $3,000 in water and sewer bills to the city after facing criticism over his handling of his personal finances.
The controversy erupted in recent days after it emerged that Johnson owed $3,357.04 in unpaid water and sewer bills and more than $400 for unpaid parking tickets to the city.
* I have no idea why the Johnson campaign thinks that a two-minute ad featuring out-of-state talking heads is gonna move any kind of needle…
The Brandon Johnson campaign has taken the extraordinary step of airing a two-minute television ad on broadcast and cable across Chicago on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. The documentary-style ad––titled “Trail of Destruction”––features parents, policy experts, and community leaders from Philadelphia and New Orleans warning Chicagoans of Paul Vallas’ disastrous record.
* Not good…
* Pat Quinn isn’t really a “centrist,” but claiming that Tabares and Martinez are progressives is truly a laugh riot…
…Adding… Like I said…
* Former CTU leaders for Vallas…
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Vallas for Mayor Public Events for April 3
Paul Vallas returns to his childhood community, joins Senator Dick Durbin, Congressman Bobby Rush & others for GOTV events across Chicago
Chicago, IL – Mayoral Candidate Paul Vallas returns to his childhood neighborhood Monday morning with a visit to a longtime donut shop in Chicago’s Roseland community where he was born and raised. Vallas will also join U.S. Senator Dick Durbin, retired Congressman Bobby Rush, mayoral candidate Ja’Mal Green and others for a series of GOTV events.
* Digital ad or simply a YouTube video?…
The Brandon Johnson campaign today released a new digital ad exposing Paul Vallas repeatedly insulting President Joe Biden and criticizing the Biden Administration on conservative talk radio. The final digital ad before election day comes as Paul Vallas is still under fire for calling the impeachment of Donald Trump a “witch hunt.”
* Candidates generally have protected speech in their ads. Third party advertisers generally do not. Press release…
On Friday, March 31, 2023 the Chicago Republican Party served cease and desist demand letters on multiple local television stations over their broadcast of an advertisement by the Brandon Johnson Campaign that claimed that Paul Vallas had been “endorsed” by the Chicago GOP. […]
Boulton noted that no broadcaster had given a response to the letter despite the passage of 48 hours. “Perhaps they will respond to the Federal Communications Commission,” Boulton speculated.
* Isabel’s roundup…
* Sun-Times | Johnson, Vallas tour South Side churches in final weekend campaign push before mayoral runoff: Johnson and Vallas both focused largely on African American wards where Mayor Lori Lightfoot performed well in the general election, as the runoff contenders vie for the nearly 17% of voter support that went to the outgoing mayor Feb. 28 — and the 10% or more Chicagoans who remain undecided, according to most polls.
* Tribune | Brandon Johnson on the campaign trail: Banter, invocations of Black forebears — and promises of a Chicago brimming in ‘vibrancy’: Johnson then launched into his stump speech centered on the single-word theme of his campaign: “investment.” He vowed access to fully funded neighborhood schools, affordable housing, new senior facilities, reliable transportation, a healthy environment and good jobs.
* Tribune | Paul Vallas on the campaign trail: ‘Wonkish’ spiels, boundless anecdotes — and a laser focus on crime: But soon, the focus turned to an issue that’s caused the Chicago mayoral candidate to visibly wince on the campaign trail: repeated attacks from rival Brandon Johnson claiming that Vallas opposes the teaching of Black history and has palled around with right-wing extremists. “It’s frustrating when somebody calls you a racist,” he said, unprompted. “Racists don’t do 55% minority contractors. Racists don’t go to New Orleans when 110 of the 120 schools have been destroyed by Hurricane Katrina and were uninhabitable.”
* Sun-Times Editorial Board | The next mayor has a chance to revitalize public education in Chicago: Lobby in Springfield for full funding of the state’s Evidence-Based Formula. The EBF ties school funding directly to the costs of educational practices that research has proven will improve achievement. Created by legislators in fiscal year 2018, it has funneled $1.6 billion more to public schools since then, most of it going to the neediest schools across Illinois, and has provided money for property tax relief as well. Problem is, the state has yet to fully fund the EBF; it’s underfunded by $3.6 billion.
* The Hill | Chicago mayor’s race reaches fever pitch in final days: While some strategists caution against looking at municipal elections strictly through a national lens, many observers are watching the Chicago mayor’s race to gauge the mood of the electorate as Democrats prepare to face another presidential cycle.
* Politico | ‘A dangerous force’: Chicago mayor’s race tests teachers union clout: In Brandon Johnson — a progressive county commissioner, former CTU organizer and teacher whose soaring oratory has been a hallmark of rallies and contract fights — the union’s critics see a takeover of the city’s politics.
* NYT | Chicagoans Are Picking a Mayor. Here’s What Matters From 4 Key Wards.: The residents of the 19th Ward on the Far Southwest Side of Chicago know how the rest of the city sees them: a white, conservative bubble of police officers and firefighters, Irish pubs and Catholic churches that is a relic of the old Chicago political machine. “There is that history,” said Clare Duggan, a Democratic political organizer who is a resident and native of the Beverly neighborhood. “But we have a dichotomy in the 19th Ward.”
* Tribune | Chicago mayoral candidate Brandon Johnson pays off more than $3,000 in water bill debts to the city: Initially, the Johnson campaign released a statement noting the bills were “on a previously established payment plan, and are on schedule to be fully resolved before (he) takes office as our next mayor.” […] “Like a lot of working families, a few years ago, my family got behind on our water bills and established a payment plan. We’re not alone — there’s $421 million in unpaid water bills right now because for too long our city has leaned on rate hikes and fees to combat the budget deficit Paul contributed to,” Johnson said. “I don’t want this to be a distraction in the crucial final days of this race, so we’ve tightened our belt and decided to pay it off now. I have zero debt with the city.”
* New Yorker | Paul Vallas’s Cops-and-Crime Campaign to Run Chicago: Early on, Vallas seized on the violence that has spiked in Chicago, and across the country, during the pandemic. In a recent poll, sixty-three per cent of Chicagoans said that they feel unsafe in daily life. Vallas, who credits the four police officers in his family for inspiring his public-safety policies, has pledged to fill the department’s seventeen hundred vacancies. “He’s meeting people where they are,” Aviva Bowen, a political strategist, told me. “They’re afraid.” At the same time, he needs to draw in voters who want major reforms in a department that is currently operating under a federal consent decree and has paid hundreds of millions of dollars to settle complaints of brutality. It’s a tough needle to thread. He’s advancing a lower-key community-policing model and pledging “zero tolerance” for officers who violate the law or the Constitution, while also welcoming the endorsement of Chicago’s Fraternal Order of Police, whose leader, John Catanzara, has posted on Facebook that Muslims “all deserve a bullet.”
* Monroe Anderson | What makes Paul Vallas the “Democrat of choice” for powerful Republicans?: If Vallas’s newly hired police turn out to be a bunch of Officer Friendlies, treating Black men on the West Side like they treat white men in Lincoln Park, that would be a step in the right direction. On the other hand, if the officers become an occupying army in the Black community, sprinkled with some Jon Burge and Jason Van Dyke types, then we can get ready for more tortured false confessions and more mass protests over trigger-happy cops using Black men for target practice.
* Chalkbeat | Comparing Chicago’s 2023 mayoral candidates on 5 key education issues: Johnson wants to overhaul the district’s current student-based budgeting system, which he argues has been harmful to schools. Basing school budgetson enrollment restricts individual campuses from giving students a full offering of programs and support, he’s said in the campaign trail. Instead, he favors an approach that fully funds school staff — including social workers, librarians, and nurses — regardless of enrollment. […] Vallas wants to get more funding directly to individual schools and out of central office. On the campaign trail, he has argued that only 60% of the district’s budget is currently making it to schools. Vallas favors a system that lets Local Schools Councils, elected members at each school, decide how funds are spent in their respective buildings. He also wants state funds such as Title I directly to assigned schools.
* Block Club | Election Day ‘Get-Out-The-Vote’ Efforts Could Be Deciding Factor In Nail-Biter Mayor’s Race, Experts Say: “A final push to get out the vote is going to make the difference,” Dominguez said. “There’s just such a large number of undecideds, and both candidates need to find ways to elevate enthusiasm amongst their base.” A neck-and-neck race with more than 200,000 vote-by-mail ballots out means there may not be a clear winner by election night, said Max Bever, Chicago Board of Election Commissioners spokesperson. Experts similarly warned of that possibility ahead of the Feb. 28 election, and multiple aldermanic results weren’t determined until mid-March.
* Sun-Times | 6th, 21st Ward candidates discuss future of South Side ahead of runoff: Time to ‘resurrect dreams of residents’: Two South Side City Council races put a pair of neighborhood pastors, a retired firefighter and a community activist into runoff contests in wards where longtime alderpersons are exiting their posts.
* Block Club | Chicagoans Should Vote Early As Tornadoes Possible, Severe Storms Expected Election Day, Officials Say: Tuesday’s election is expected to be highly consequential: Chicagoans will vote on the city’s next mayor, choosing between the ideologically divided Brandon Johnson and Paul Vallas. Fourteen aldermanic races are also up for grabs in the runoff election. But potentially dangerous storms are also expected Tuesday, especially later in the day: There could be damaging wind, hail and tornadoes, according to the National Weather Service.
* Tribune | As city’s most active voting precinct, Cook County inmates vote with help from jail and advocates: Voting at the Cook County Jail has risen sharply since the jail added pioneering in-person polling places in 2020. Incarcerated voters say they feel more heard as voting rights groups work to educate and register inmates, and politicians are taking note of the increasingly involved voters.
* WTTW | Chicago Public Schools Teacher Charged With Stalking Mayor Lori Lightfoot: Garrett McLinn was also charged with disorderly conduct and five counts of resisting a police officer, according to police. The arrest took place on the Logan Square block where Lightfoot lives. Sources close to Lightfoot say members of the mayor’s security detail confronted McLinn as he was causing a disruption outside of her home, and that the confrontation escalated. McLinn has appeared outside the mayor’s house on at least one other occasion, sources said.
* Crain’s | Why the City Council structure gives rise to corruption: “When people understandably and rationally assume that actors in city government are acting in their own interests and not the interests of the people they serve, that makes it harder to conduct responsible government,” says Deborah Witzburg, Chicago’s inspector general. “Chicago has not earned the benefit of any doubt. We have earned ourselves a world in which people profoundly distrust city government, and so when things go wrong, there is gaping space for worst assumptions.”
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If you’re getting a strong and unpleasant sense of déjà vu about the new U.S. Census Bureau’s population estimates for counties, including Cook County, you’re not alone. U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., is feeling it as well.
Krishnamoorthi, who sits on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, has been trying to force the Census Bureau to retool its population estimates because they have been so awfully inaccurate going back years and years.
The Census Bureau’s annual statewide population estimates released in December 2020 claimed Illinois had cumulatively lost an astounding 240,000 people over the previous decade, representing 2% of the state’s population.
The publication of those estimates every year showing sharp population declines regularly provoked an uproar in the news media and among pundits, particularly on the rightward end of the spectrum. And it came to a head in 2020, when the Census claimed Illinois had lost the equivalent of more than two Springfields.
But when the actual Census, based on real-life counts of human beings and not estimates, was published in 2021, the state’s population loss was pegged at 18,000 people, just 7.5% of the previously estimated loss.
The following year, after the Census Bureau delved deeply into its own numbers, the federal agency admitted it had blundered. The Bureau’s Post-Enumeration Survey, using what the Census Bureau said was a “statistical technique called dual-system estimation,” found that Illinois’ population actually grew by about 250,000 people, an almost 500,000-person shift from that December 2020 estimate.
Yet, here we are, back to reading about the results of annual U.S. Census surveys, and nobody seems to remember any of that history or has bothered to remind the public to take these estimates with a gigantic grain of salt.
This past December, the Census Bureau released estimates claiming the state’s population had fallen by 113,776 people, which prompted several handwringing stories without any historical context.
In January, Krishnamoorthi called on the Bureau to conduct a thorough methodological review of its estimate process. A month later, Krishnamoorthi received a communication from the Bureau saying this review would, indeed, be done, but “potential” changes using tools from the Post-Enumeration Survey wouldn’t be implemented until this coming December at the very earliest, if at all.
Which brings us to last week.
“Cook County lost 68,000 people last year, Census Bureau says,” blared a recent Crain’s Chicago Business headline about the Bureau’s newly released “Vintage 2022 estimates.” The story included no context about the wild inaccuracy of previous Census Bureau estimates.
Crain’s wasn’t alone. “Cook County population drop second-worst in country,” declared a Sun-Times headline. That story, too, did not include any context of prior errors. “Baseball season has begun and Cook County residents are going, going, gone by the tens of thousands, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s latest estimates,” the story began.
“Census data shows urban counties rebounding, but Cook County’s population has yet to recover from pandemic dip,” was the Chicago Tribune’s take, also without any reference to the Bureau’s previous blunders.
The Bureau’s faulty estimates did vast reputational harm to the state during the previous decade and centered intense public debate around proposed policy fixes to halt what was thought to be a huge population decline, which turned out not to be real when actual noses were counted. And even then, a post-count examination found the physical headcount was short by a very large margin.
So, Krishnamoorthi has written yet another letter to the Census Bureau demanding answers. The latest estimate “appears to echo” earlier data “that drove misleading narratives and rhetoric surrounding purported population losses in Illinois which were subsequently revealed to be unfounded,” the Schaumburg Democrat wrote to Bureau Director Robert Santos.
And the numbers don’t just harm the state’s reputation and provoke public debates based on faulty data, but they can have a major impact on federal funding the state receives.
“Beyond the implications such data have for our understanding of our state’s population dynamics,” Krishnamoorthi wrote, “Census Bureau data will be utilized over the next decade to allocate roughly $1.5 trillion in federal funding through approximately 100 programs, including Medicaid, SNAP, Medicare, Highway Planning and Construction, and Pell grants.”
The rest of the state’s congressional delegation, including our two U.S. senators, should step up and join Krishnamoorthi’s calls for change at the Census Bureau. And in the meantime, the news media in this state ought to stop flushing the Bureau’s past mistakes down the collective memory hole.
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Monday, Apr 3, 2023 - Posted by Isabel Miller
* Hope y’all had a relaxing weekend! What’s goin’ on?
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Morning briefing
Monday, Apr 3, 2023 - Posted by Isabel Miller
* Here you go!…
* Sun-Times | Pritzker issues disaster proclamation after tornadoes hit Illinois, killing 4: Pritzker signed the proclamation late Saturday, allowing the state to send assistance to DuPage, Boone, Crawford, Marion and Sangamon counties. “The devastating storms that swept through our state last night have upended communities and resulted in heartbreaking injury and loss of life,” Pritzker said in a statement.
* SJ-R | NWS rates Sherman, Riverton tornadoes as EF2; severe weather may return to area Tuesday: The storm system that struck Arkansas, Illinois and Indiana Friday left seven people dead, including a concertgoer at the Apollo Theatre in Belvidere, just outside Rockford. Five other people were seriously injured when the theatre’s roof collapsed at a heavy metal show.
* NBC Chicago | New Chicago Mayoral Poll Shows Vallas With Slight Lead Ahead of Johnson: The poll, conducted by Victory Research, showed Vallas’ with 49.6% of the potential vote and Johnson with 45.4%. Vallas’ lead widened from two points to 4.2 points, when compared to the previous poll, which was conducted in late March.
* Sun-Times | Census Bureau’s inaccurate population estimates create ‘misleading narrative’ about Illinois: The following year, after the Census Bureau delved deeply into its own numbers, the federal agency admitted it had blundered. The Bureau’s Post-Enumeration Survey, using what the Census Bureau said was a “statistical technique called dual-system estimation,” found that Illinois’ population actually grew by about 250,000 people, an almost 500,000-person shift from that December 2020 estimate. Yet, here we are, back to reading about the results of annual U.S. Census surveys, and nobody seems to remember any of that history or has bothered to remind the public to take these estimates with a gigantic grain of salt.
* WBEZ | Chicago State University faculty to go on strike Monday: University Professionals of Illinois Local 4100, representing more than 160 professors, lecturers, and academic and technical support professionals at Chicago State University, has been in negotiations with administrators since June. Their last contract expired in August.
* Sun-Times | Prosecutors seeking nearly 6-year prison sentence for downstate Jan. 6 rioter: Shane Woods remains jailed in Sangamon County on murder charges in a separate case, in which he allegedly caused a fatal crash during a botched attempt to take his own life rather than face prison time for his participation in the Washington D.C. riot.
* SJ-R | Here’s what Sangamon County voters need to know about Election Day: Sangamon County Clerk Don Gray said the office has encountered few problems in the runup to the election. “We’re fully staffed with election judges and registrars,” Gray said. “We have an ample level of backups in place.
* Lisa Castillo Richmond | Illinois legislators have the power to make higher education more affordable: It’s important to remember that the past 20 years have given us little to celebrate for Illinois higher education. Over this period, college and university appropriations were nearly halved, and MAP grants were cut by more than $100 million as college prices rose, denying 1.7 million need-based grants to eligible students. These funding decreases were punctuated by the 2017 budget impasse, in which universities nearly closed and students didn’t know whether they would receive the MAP grants they needed to stay in college.
* Crain’s | McDonald’s shuts down U.S. offices in advance of layoffs: The Chicago-based burger giant said in an internal email last week to U.S. employees and some international staff that they should work from home from Monday through Wednesday so it can deliver staffing decisions virtually. The Wall Street Journal first reported the news. The company asked employees to cancel all in-person meetings with vendors and other outside parties at its headquarters.
* STLPR | Renewable energy use is up sharply in Illinois and slightly in Missouri: Wind power accounts for 74% of the renewable energy in the United States. It is the biggest source in Missouri and Illinois, as well. Both are among the top 20 states in the country for wind energy supply.
* Joe Cahill | Illinois needs unity to win Uncle Sam’s cash: That’s the idea behind a coalition organized by Gov. J.B. Pritzker to compete for $80 billion or more in funding that will be doled out across the country under the CHIPS & Science Act, the Inflation Reduction Act and other Biden administration programs. Dubbed Innovate Illinois, the group includes a wide array of business groups, universities and political leaders, such as P33, World Business Chicago, the University of Chicago, Northwestern University and the University of Illinois. U.S. Sens. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth signed on, too.
* Naperville Sun | Wehrli outpacing White when it comes to Naperville mayor election campaign donations: Illinois State Board of Elections records show Wehrli has received more than $207,000 in campaign donations since announcing his mayoral run in July, whereas White has taken in $108,000 since he launching his bid in October.
* AP | Twitter pulls check mark from main New York Times account: Early Sunday, Musk tweeted that the Times’ check mark would be removed. Later he posted disparaging remarks about the newspaper, which has aggressively reported on Twitter and on flaws with partially automated driving systems at Tesla, the electric car company, which he also runs.
* Northwestern Now | Gov. JB Pritzker, Morton Schapiro and three others to receive honorary degrees: Along with Pritzker and Schapiro, the following recipients will receive their honorary degrees at the ceremony: Dr. Agnes Binagwaho, retired vice chancellor and co-founder of the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE), Rwanda; Sharon Bowen, commissioner of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and chair of the Board of the New York Stock Exchange; and Luis Valdez, playwright, director and founder of El Teatro Campesino.
* Crain’s | How a woman working in her basement created the 7th largest publisher in the U.S.: When the blockbuster $2.2 billion merger of book publishing giants Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster was blocked late last year for antitrust reasons — in what would have been a combination of two of the Big Five in New York publishing — nobody noted at the time that Random House had already taken a big stake in the nation’s No. 7 ranked publisher, Sourcebooks in Naperville.
* Sun-Times | White Sox show what they can be when talent is on the field, gain series split with Astros: Talent was never an issue for the underachieving White Sox last season. Keeping it on the field was. Luis Robert Jr., Yoan Moncada and Tim Anderson reminded everyone of that in the Sox’ 6-3 victory Sunday against the Astros at Minute Maid Park.
* Sun-Times | San Diego State’s Dutcher took an extra-long route — starting at Illinois — to the Final Four: As many NCAA Tournament watchers have heard over the last couple of weeks, Dutcher, 63, didn’t become a head coach until deep into his career; he was 57 when SDSU finally promoted him. Before that, he was an assistant to Steve Fisher for 27 years, nine of them at Michigan — where he recruited the heck out of the “Fab Five” — and 18 with the Aztecs.
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