Pritzker touts Illinois tourism campaign Time to Drive despite current gas prices
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The splashy, $6 million Illinois tourism campaign Gov. J.B. Pritzker unveiled this month, Time for Me to Drive, an anthem set to the 1970s REO Speedwagon mega-hit and touting hot spots from historic Galena to the Shawnee National Forest, ignores a key factor: The state’s price for gas is among the highest in the country.
AAA reports that the average price per gallon in Illinois Tuesday was $3.22. While lower prices in the past have sent lawmakers scurrying to special session to take action, Pritzker seemed unconcerned that the current price might leave summer road trips off the to-do list for some families when asked about it last week.
American Opinion: Getting rid of earmarks was a useful measure to curb waste and combat corruption.
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Chicago Tribune Editorial Board | 7:30 am, May 22, 2021 ×
Congress should not bring back earmarks.
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For a long time, pork barrel legislation and corruption have been close companions. Politicians had ways of bringing federally funded projects to their districts, and special interests that stood to profit from those outlays sought to influence the politicians. Members of Congress could insert earmarks to direct spending as they saw fit, and some of them used that power to enrich themselves not always within the bounds of what was legal.
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A dark preview of the right-wing Supreme Court s sweeping agenda U.S. Supreme Court, 2021
In 1976, the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty after a four-year moratorium in
Gregg v. Georgia. Rather than taking the opportunity to rule once and for all that capital punishment constitutes cruel and unusual punishment violating the Eighth Amendment, the Court instead ruled the death penalty serves two social purposes, deterrence and retribution, and comports with the core of the Eighth Amendment.
To satisfy issues raised four years earlier in
Furman v. Georgia, which imposed the moratorium, the court in
Gregg required an appellate review process to ensure objectivity in imposing the death penalty and for the sentencer to take the defendant s character into consideration. Almost 50 years later the death penalty remains constitutional, but as more and more states stop imposing capital punishment, opposition is higher than ever.
New panel to develop reparations fund in Amherst
Past Amherst area residents Henry Jackson, center, Lt. Frazar Stearns, left, and Anna Reed Goodwin, right, are featured on the Amherst Community History Mural, as seen through the adjacent West Cemetery fence in Amherst. Amherst is on a path toward providing reparations to Black residents for past injustices following the town council’s adoption of a resolution calling for the community to become an anti-racist town. AP FILE PHOTO
Published: 5/19/2021 8:20:00 PM
AMHERST Town officials are establishing a new committee to develop a reparations fund for making restitution for past harms to Black residents.