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SPACs STRIKE BACK: As financial regulators and lawmakers begin to take a closer look at the explosion of SPACs, or special purpose acquisition companies, the industry is banding together to form a trade group to serve as its voice in Washington. The
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VENUES STILL WAITING FOR CASH AFTER LOBBYING VICTORY: When the pandemic hit last year, concert and performing arts venues banded together to form the National Independent Venue Association, which spent months lobbying Congress to help them. They succeeded in December: Congress included a grant program for shuttered venues in the Covid relief.
By Capitol News
SPRINGFIELD Gov. JB Pritzker pushed back on criticisms of the state’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout Thursday, Jan. 29, saying state officials are “doing everything we can” to ensure timely delivery of doses.
Illinois currently ranks 47th among all 50 states in vaccine distribution, with 4.8% of the state’s 12.7 million residents having been vaccinated so far. The state has issued 829,488 total doses of the COVID-19 vaccine as of Thursday, with only 1.4% of the state’s population having received both required doses.
Some state lawmakers have criticized the Pritzker administration for the slow delivery of the vaccine, especially at long-term care facilities that have been prioritized under the state’s vaccine distribution plan.
By Sarah Mansur & Capitol News Illinois
• Jan 26, 2021
Credit US Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a case Monday that sought to compel public employee unions to reimburse nonmember employees for mandatory fees which the court ruled as unconstitutional in 2018.
The case was brought by Mark Janus, a former Illinois government employee whose original lawsuit resulted in the landmark 2018 U.S. Supreme Court decision, “Mark Janus v. American Federation for State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31.”
Janus, a former child support specialist with the state, never joined a public union but was still obligated to pay so-called “fair share” fees.