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September 2021 Posts

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (09-30)
Reader comments closed for a bit (09-29)
Question of the day (09-29)
Putting numbers into perspective (09-29)
Report: Sacks spearheading effort to combine WBEZ and Sun-Times (09-29)
Pritzker begins ramping up efforts to make Illinois a center of the electric vehicle industry (09-29)
Rabine picks up Charlie Kirk endorsement (09-29)
Bears inform Chicago that team has signed Arlington Park purchase agreement (09-29)
Open thread (09-29)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (09-29)
*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (09-29)
Lake County man declines rabies treatment, dies (09-28)
Question of the day (09-28)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Not that it really matters, but Dems relaunch online remap portal (09-28)
Poll: Most say glass is half full on vax boosters (09-28)
2021 Illinois State Fair attendance down 7.2 percent from 2019, but still second highest since 2014 (09-28)
COVID-19 roundup (09-28)
Group pushing for early release of mentally ill prisoners kept in solitary confinement (09-28)
Governors Edgar and Quinn look back at their relationships with Chicago mayors (09-28)
Today's quotable: Rodney Davis predicts Pritzker will be one-term governor (09-28)
It's just a bill: The Protecting Heartbeats Act (09-28)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Danny Davis believes R. Kelly will be "welcomed back" in Chicago, but it will depend on how he reconciles "for the acts that he may have committed" (09-28)
Open thread (09-28)
*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (09-28)
Question of the day (09-27)
COVID-19 roundup (09-27)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Fundraiser list (09-27)
Davis quietly holds fundraiser with Speaker Pelosi (09-27)
Rules for thee... (09-27)
Today's quotable (09-27)
Remap roundup (09-27)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Pritzker appears to reach the limits of his executive powers (09-27)
Open thread (09-27)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Other stuff (09-27)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (09-27)
*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (09-27)
Reader comments closed for the weekend (09-24)
IDPH adopts CDC booster shot recommendation (09-24)
*** UPDATED *** Question of the day: Pritzker signs revised remap bill (09-24)
If it wasn't obvious before... Wear your masks, people (09-24)
COVID-19 roundup (09-24)
*** UPDATED x1 *** People alleged to have behaved badly (09-24)
The hollowing-out of Illinois government is (still) hurting kids (09-24)
IDES finally implementing multifactor authentication (09-24)
Harmon says Senate "looking at" taking up repeal of Parental Notification Act during veto session (09-24)
Open thread (09-24)
*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (09-24)
MLB open thread (09-23)
Question of the day (09-23)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - DuPage; Hynes (09-23)
COVID-19 roundup (09-23)
Climate/energy law coverage roundup (09-23)
In wake of abortion law, Pritzker recruiting Texas-based companies (09-23)
Sun-Times: One of Sullivan's California non-profits owes money for failing to file tax returns, another listed as delinquent (09-23)
Today's quotable (09-23)
Open thread (09-23)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Supplement to today's edition (09-23)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (09-23)
*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (09-23)
COVID-19 roundup (09-22)
Musical interlude: Mavis Staples (09-22)
Question of the day (09-22)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Campaign roundup (09-22)
*** UPDATED x1 *** After IDPH issues new emergency rules, DeVore urges followers "Bring this state to its knees" (09-22)
Unclear on the concept (09-22)
Today's must-read: The Unbelievable Grimness of HermanCainAward, the Subreddit That Catalogs Anti-Vaxxer COVID Deaths (09-22)
Open thread (09-22)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (09-22)
*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (09-22)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - HDem news (09-21)
Question of the day (09-21)
Pritzker in Peoria for two big announcements (09-21)
Get your (flu) shots, people (09-21)
State's eviction moratorium will expire on October 3 (09-21)
Rep. Welter files pro-virus transmission bill (09-21)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Pritzker issued EO late Friday in response to school quarantine lawsuits (09-21)
Today's must-read: Six Rules That Will Define Our Second Pandemic Winter (09-21)
Open thread (09-21)
*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (09-21)
Question of the day (09-20)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Fundraiser list (09-20)
Pritzker administration reaches vax deal with small union (09-20)
COVID-19 roundup (09-20)
Fox News poll: School mask mandates favored 67-31 (09-20)
Schimpf slams Sullivan combat leadership claim (09-20)
Vax deadline extended for state's congregate-setting workers (09-20)
Open thread (09-20)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Supplement to today's edition (09-20)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (09-20)
*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (09-20)
Reader comments closed for the weekend (09-17)
Today's quotable (09-17)
*** UPDATED x1 - COVID pneumonia *** Please, get your shots and wear your mask (09-17)
Question of the day (09-17)
Illinois announced two aviation-related projects this week (09-17)
Two takes on the new climate/energy law (09-17)
COVID-19 roundup (09-17)
It's just a bill (09-17)
*** UPDATED x2 *** Campaign roundup: Welch is third leader to bust the caps; Cronin replacements emerge; Davis the frontrunner? (09-17)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Dowell says she would require all secretary of state campaign workers to be vaxed (09-17)
Today's must-read (09-17)
Open thread (09-17)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Supplement to today's edition (09-17)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (09-17)
*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (09-17)
Treasurer's OEIG Rendleman out after Republicans complain about Facebook posts (09-16)
Question of the day (09-16)
COVID-19 roundup (09-16)
It's not even a bill yet (and may never be) (09-16)
Rate the new DGA video on GOP opposition to COVID mitigations (09-16)
Pritzker campaign mandates COVID vax as condition of employment (09-16)
Oh, great: "A cocktail mix of heavy disease pressure" (09-16)
Another day, another Fourth Circuit pro-virus transmission order (09-16)
It's just a bill (09-16)
More good fiscal news (09-16)
Open thread (09-16)
*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (09-16)
Question of the day (09-15)
The Fourth Circuit strikes again with pro-virus transmission order (09-15)
If you want people to support local news, then please don't be so bad at it (09-15)
Caption contest! (09-15)
Pew: "Illinois is getting closer to stabilizing pension debt" (09-15)
A difference in emphasis (09-15)
Cronin on future: "I'm going to sit this election cycle out" (09-15)
This stuff has to stop (09-15)
Unclear on the concept (09-15)
Open thread (09-15)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Supplement to today's edition (09-15)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (09-15)
*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (09-15)
Question of the day: "The TExAS Act" (09-14)
JCAR recommends that State Board of Education issue formal rule over mask enforcement issue (09-14)
Complaint filed in Michigan over $250,000 Pritzker campaign contribution to fellow Dem governor (09-14)
COVID-19 roundup (09-14)
Bailey fails to make the grade with American Conservative Union (09-14)
Cook County Forest Preserve District ban on licensed concealed carry overturned partly because it would've been allowed in the year 1791 - But ruling stayed to give legislature time to respond (09-14)
Illinois will soon start paying interest on its huge unemployment insurance trust fund debt (09-14)
Climate/energy bill final passage coverage roundup (09-14)
Ald. Gardiner messes around and finds out: Feds reportedly eyeing alleged constituent retaliation (09-14)
Effingham County board members back off pro-virus transmission resolution (09-14)
Open thread (09-14)
*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (09-14)
Question of the day (09-13)
Legislators respond to somewhat odd hit piece (09-13)
Pritzker announces bonuses for childcare workers, expanded eligibility for parents, additional help for providers (09-13)
Rivian has spent $1.5 billion on its Illinois factory (09-13)
Unclear on the concept (09-13)
COVID-19 roundup (09-13)
Unfortunately, you can fool some of the people all of the time (09-13)
Sullivan insists he's not a San Francisco guy (09-13)
*** UPDATED x2 *** A look at the climate/energy bill (09-13)
Durkin says vaxes and masks "Will not be part of the equation" in 2022 campaign (09-13)
A new day and a new way (09-13)
Open thread (09-13)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Supplement to today's edition (09-13)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (09-13)
*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (09-13)
Reader comments closed for the weekend (09-10)
Question of the day (09-10)
*** UPDATED x1 *** COVID-19 roundup (09-10)
Climate/energy bill coverage roundup (09-10)
Today's quotable: "What's keeping us from doing more?" (09-10)
Open thread (09-10)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Supplement to today's edition (09-10)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (09-10)
*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (09-10)
Climate/energy bill passes House 83-33 - Senate will return Monday to send bill to governor (09-09)
Sullivan vows Illinois "turnaround" (09-09)
Looks like there's now a deal on climate/energy bill (09-09)
*** UPDATED x2 *** Because Madigan? Nope, says federal judge (09-09)
New unemployment claims fall again in Illinois as more IDES offices re-open (09-09)
Campaign roundup (09-09)
Question of the day (09-09)
ABATE complains about discrimination against motorcycles in energy bill's incentives package (09-09)
With Biden move, a big chunk of AFSCME's argument against mandated vaxing just went out the window (09-09)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Welch issues warning (09-09)
*** UPDATED x1 - House votes to accept *** Ethics vote coverage roundup (09-09)
*** UPDATED x2 - Pritzker expresses support - Enviros also back it *** Union-backed group supports House version of energy bill (09-09)
Batinick receives response from Pritzker on masks in schools (09-09)
Today's quotable (09-09)
United Airlines announces employees with approved vax waivers to be placed on leave (09-09)
Dave Dahl scores Rauner interview: "I'm just a guy who wants to try to make things better" (09-09)
Open thread (09-09)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Supplement to today's edition (09-09)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (09-09)
*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (09-09)
*** UPDATED x2 - Rabine responds *** Jesse Sullivan discloses almost $11 million in contributions ahead of formal campaign kickoff (09-09)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Post-caucus energy bill update (09-08)
Question of the day (09-08)
More corruption revealed at TRS (09-08)
Corngate continues! (09-08)
Rep. Halpin announces state Senate campaign (09-08)
COVID-19 roundup (09-08)
After formal local request, AG Raoul opens probe of Joliet Police Department (09-08)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Quick energy bill update (09-08)
Nothing is ever "final action" (09-08)
Sen. Bryant calls state worker vax mandate "massive overreach" (09-08)
Today's quotable (09-08)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Get off Facebook! (09-08)
Open thread (09-08)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (09-08)
*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (09-08)
Question of the day (09-07)
COVID-19 roundup (09-07)
Caption contest! (09-07)
*** UPDATED x3 - Bailey questions - ILGOP explains - Rabine claims victory *** Sullivan floats gubernatorial candidacy (09-07)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Giannoulias wants to allow extra vanity pics for driver's licenses (09-07)
Speaker Welch says talks are "moving forward" on energy, calls Thursday session (09-07)
Get your shots, please (09-07)
AFSCME flooded with vax mandate feedback (09-07)
Climate/energy talks still down to a "singular albeit complicated issue" (09-07)
Open thread (09-07)
*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (09-07)
*** UPDATED x2 *** New amendment filed on energy bill, backed by governor (09-03)
Reader comments closed for Labor Day weekend (09-03)
Another cannabis muck up (09-03)
452,000 Illinoisans to lose expanded unemployment benefits on Labor Day (09-03)
Pritzker extends vax deadline for health care and school workers by two weeks (09-03)
Question of the day (09-03)
HDems plan to forge ahead with another vote to accept ethics AV (09-03)
COVID-19 roundup (09-03)
House Exec posts hearing for climate/energy bill next Thursday morning (09-03)
Rep. West to replace the late Don Johnston on DPI central committee (09-03)
Illinois Republicans continue silence about US Supreme Court ruling on Texas abortion law (09-03)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Black group denounces new legislative maps (09-03)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Supplement to today’s edition (09-03)
Open thread (09-03)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (09-03)
*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (09-03)
Abudayyeh is first appointee to state's new Local Journalism Task Force (09-02)
Question of the day (09-02)
COVID-19 roundup: Poll finds just 10 percent of unvaxed think they're at fault for COVID surge (09-02)
Unclear on the concept (09-02)
Latino Policy Forum wants Pritzker to veto new remap bill (09-02)
*** UPDATED x1 *** SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Climate/energy (09-02)
*** UPDATED x1 *** WSJ analysis: Almost no job growth difference between states that cut unemployment benefits early and those that did not (09-02)
Pritzker suffers rare veto override defeat (09-02)
Another day, another lawsuit (09-02)
Downstate residents, particularly in southern Illinois, have got to start taking this seriously (09-02)
Open thread (09-02)
*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (09-02)
Exelon reiterates that Byron nuke plant will shut down on September 13 without legislative action (09-01)
MALDEF says remap "penalized" Latinos (09-01)
Today's number: $5.24 billion (09-01)
Fox News peddles fabricated Ezike quote (09-01)
Unclear on the concept (09-01)
Local react to Texas abortion ban (09-01)
COVID-19 roundup (09-01)
Elections matter (09-01)
Climate/energy bill coverage roundup (09-01)
Caption contest! (09-01)
Never assume (09-01)
Open thread (09-01)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (09-01)
*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (09-01)
*** UPDATED x6 - Pritzker admin responds - Senate sends climate/energy bill to House - Senate Dems change course, will punt energy issue to House - House Repubs derail ethics bill vote *** House will not take up climate/energy bill tonight (09-01)

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