Prosecutors alleged that ComEd engaged in a costly years-long effort to buy Madigan’s favor by, among other things, hiring his political associates, putting some of them in lucrative no-show jobs.
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Mar 3, 2021 7:52 AM
(CHICAGO) The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) reported 1,577 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday with 20 additional deaths. In the latest vaccination report, just over 3.6 million doses of vaccine have been delivered to providers in Illinois, with just over 2.8 million vaccines administered statewide as of last midnight. The state’s seven day rolling average of vaccines administered daily is at 80,000 doses. There were over 61,000 doses given yesterday. The IDPH expects the new Johnson & Johnson vaccine to arrive in Illinois today. For updates, go to dph.illinois.gov or if questions call toll-free at 1-800-889-3931.
Big money, nuclear subsidies, and systemic corruption,
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, By Cassandra Jeffery, M. V. Ramana | February 12, 2021, ”………… the long-term impact of legislation that favors nuclear energy firms involves the great economic and political power that these large utilities possess. To better understand the basis of the economic power of these corporations, we analyzed financial data from electric utilities listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) between 1970 and 2019 on the standard Compustat database.
The first trend that is evident is one of increasing market concentration. From the 1970s through to the mid-1990s, there were roughly 80 to 85 companies listed in this sector on the NYSE. By 2000, that number had dropped to 56. The reason was a series of mergers and acquisitions through which large companies absorbed smaller companies. For example, Commonweath Edison became part of Unicom in 1994. Unicom and the Philadelphia Electric Com