The case alleges Maryland's new tax on digital advertising is unlawful, violating federal laws that bar discriminatory taxes on e-commerce and ban states from regulating interstate commerce and actions outside their borders.
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Good Thursday morning, Illinois. I will be spending a good part of the day on Zoom and I am really hoping a cat pops up.
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Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker delivered his virtual budget address Feb. 17, 2021, from the State Fair Grounds, which a hundred years earlier was the site of a makeshift hospital for patients affected by the Spanish Flu. | Screen shot
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Thursday, Feb 18, 2021 You have to wade through a whole lot of heat to get to the light, but at least there is some in this Capitol News Illinois story, including…
The budget calls for a full pension payment and increases funding for the Department of Children and Family Services by 7.9 percent. Pritzker also asked lawmakers to pass a standalone bill increasing spending for the Illinois Department of Employment Security by $60 million in federal funds for the current fiscal year and called for an added $73 million for the current fiscal year in federal funds. […]
Pritzker’s budget proposal also calls for an 8 percent reduction, or $638 million, in Medicaid expenses. That’s because the federal government has increased its share of Medicaid funding by 6.2 percentage points through the end of 2021 as part of its pandemic response plan.
Virginia might change how absentee votes get counted
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Early voters line up at the Fauquier County registrarâs office to cast their ballots in September. Absentee ballots get processed in one total, separate from the precincts in which voters live. Iâll tell you this, if weâre shooting rockets off into space at Wallops Island, we can figure out what precinct a voter is from. Sen. Mark Peake (R-Lynchburg)
⢠Adjourns: Saturday, Feb. 27
Despite lingering, and unfounded, fraud suspicions on the right, a recently issued state report called the 2020 election the âmost safe, secure, and successfulâ in Virginiaâs history.