* Gov. Pritzker sat down with the Daily Herald editorial board yesterday. I’m still going through the whole thing, but he said this when asked why people were moving out of state…

I think there are several reasons. One is that we have been significantly underfunding education in the state and one of the reasons that business and jobs get created in the state is because it has great talent and it invests in that talent. That’s certainly why people come here on a day like this when it’s below zero. Why would a business choose Illinois? It’s because we’ve got great people, we have terrific talent. And it’s because we have great universities, and because we are producing great talent that we can work in those businesses.

But not if you don’t invest in it. So, we lose people in part because we aren’t continuing to invest in the talent that we need. We lose people because we have a property tax system that overburdens people. And we lose people because when you don’t fund universities, and when you threaten not to fund MAP grants, tens of thousands, it turns out it’s more than 72 thousand, young people choose not to go to school in Illinois and when they leave about 70 percent of them don’t come back. So those are all things that contribute to why people leave.

He was kind of all over the place there, but your thoughts on what he said?

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* Wooing Illinois to Indiana? It’s not just businesses doing it - A Chicago real estate agent is sprinkling Illinois suburbs with postcards pitching affluent homeowners on the property tax benefits of jumping the border. The only hitch: She hasn’t found any takers yet: In the three weeks since sending the first postcard, Pender said, she hasn’t received any calls from Cook County residents asking to look at her Indiana listings.