The Capitol Fax Blog

• Question of the day March 24, 2023
  * From a Feb. 1st Illinois Freedom Caucus press release… Illinois Freedom Caucus member Adam Niemerg negotiated some [House] rule changes […] Niemerg also negotiated the end of the consent calendar that allowed large number of bills to be voted on with one roll call. Consent Calendar bills often included ceremonial legislation such as measures to change [... […]
• Afternoon roundup March 24, 2023
  * Personal PAC’s latest mailer… * Trouble at EIU… Second union headed toward a strike today:EIU faculty and staff union to rally Monday, deliver Intent to Strike pic.twitter.com/NQiIicE50f — IL Federation of Teachers (@iftaft) March 24, 2023 * More disturbances at Pontiac’s prison… Two officers at Pontiac Correctional Center were attacked earlier this week, […]
• Three projects put under the microscope March 24, 2023
  * This BGA/Illinois Answers headline has a lot of sizzle… $141M in Pritzker Projects Have Close Ties to Governor’s Allies But Face Serious Questions * The main story is about the port in Cairo… The port’s backers include a downstate Republican state senator and a longtime personal friend of the governor’s who did public relations work for [...]
• That toddlin’ town roundup March 24, 2023
  * This is a rather odd way of saying that Mayor Lightfoot slashed the CPS budget by hundreds of millions of dollars… Mayor Lori Lightfoot has also shifted other expenses from the city budget to CPS. Those include non-teacher pensions — a cost that has grown every year and which CPS officials project to reach $315 [...]
• Comed 4 trial coverage roundup March 24, 2023
  * Heh… Behold, the resume that legendary 13th Ward precinct captain Ed Moody submitted to ComEd, which allegedly paid him $4,500 a month for years to do …nothing. It’s possibly the most Chicago exhibit ever admitted in federal court: pic.twitter.com/gqz4qNii1C — Jason Meisner (@jmetr22b) March 24, 2023 * Roundup… * Tribune | In ‘ComEd Four’ trial, Michael Ma […]
• How to win friends and influence people… in Opposite Land March 24, 2023
  * Will County Board Chair Judy Ogalla… Heard Robin Kelly is in the hospital waiting to have foot surgery, she broke it. Anyway I think a broken foot in a day… Posted by Vote For Judy Ogalla on Monday, March 20, 2023
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• It’s just a bill March 24, 2023
  * Patrick Keck… The Illinois General Assembly, facing upcoming deadlines to advance bills to the next chamber, held several lengthy floor debates this week resulting in hundreds of bills passed in the House and Senate. As of 11:30 p.m. on Thursday, a total of 320 bills had passed over a three-day stretch collectively in both chambers. The [...]
• House celebrates historic first March 24, 2023
  * Yesterday was the first day of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan… A commemoration of Muhammad’s first revelation, the annual observance of Ramadan is regarded as one of the Five Pillars of Islam and lasts twenty-nine to thirty days, from one sighting of the crescent moon to the next. Fasting from dawn to sunset is [...]
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