After spending much of last year clashing with Gov. JB Pritzker on COVID-19 guidelines, a southern Illinois lawmaker now says he wants to run against him.
. More people have died in the field after a 9-1-1 call for ambulance and emergency services in recent months during the Coronavirus pandemic than in previous years, according to county emergency services officials.
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January this year saw the sharpest uptick: up to 516 people died in the field following a 9-1-1 call for service, a statistic that comes from a Feb. 3 daily report by the county’s Medical Health Operational Area Coordination (MHOAC).
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Republican leaders in the Illinois House are calling on Gov. JB Pritzker to propose a truly balanced budget when he delivers his budget address Wednesday, noting he should avoid relying on money that may never materialize.
That’s what happened in May when lawmakers adopted the current fiscal year’s budget. That plan called for $42.9 billion in in General Revenue Fund spending, but it was predicated on the assumption that Congress would pass an aid package for state and local governments and that Illinois voters would approve Pritzker’s proposed constitutional amendment to allow for a graduated income tax.
Former state Sen. Paul Schimpf, who spent four years representing the 58th District and was the Republican Party’s candidate for attorney general in 2014,
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A number of Orange County cities have moved to change the way they get their energy, which officials say will save local residents a little money and help combat climate change.
The cities of Buena Park, Fullerton, Huntington Beach and Irvine, which started the effort, are already in. The cities have formed a new public agency where they’ll buy and sell their own energy and invest in renewable energy sources while slightly lowering people’s utility bills.
Some are now looking to officials in Santa Ana one of the densest cities in the county and the U.S. to possibly join next and exit the current investor-owned power company servicing the region, Southern California Edison.