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Congress passes $900B COVID relief package
Stimulus checks, unemployment aid halved; no relief for cities, states, restaurants
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Ted CoxCoronavirus, Coronavirus Relief, Coronavirus Stimulus, COVID-19, COVID-19 Relief, Joe Biden, Congressional Budget Office, Paycheck Protection Program, Robert Reich, Rich Miller, Capitol Fax, Grover Norquist, J.B. Pritzker, Restaurants Act, Independent Restaurant Coalition
Communication breakdown
Rep. Guzzardi says Fair Tax proponents didn’t articulate need for revenue and how it would ‘help people’s lives’
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Ted CoxWill Guzzardi, Fair Tax Amendment, Political Divide, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Rich Miller, Dick Durbin, Capitol Fax, Illinois Political Divide, Kenneth Griffin, Michael Madigan, ComEd Bribery
Daily Debunk: Endless austerity
Fair Tax opponents are arguing about everything but a graduated income tax in a bid to hogtie state gov’t
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Ted CoxDaily Debunk, Illinois Fair Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Fair Tax Amendment, Bruce Rauner, J.B. Pritzker, Kenneth Griffin, Rich Miller, Capitol Fax, Quentin Fulks, Vote Yes for Fairness, Citadel Investments
Daily Debunk: The desperation stage
Billionaire Griffin spends $27M more to defeat Fair Tax Amendment, as IPI files 11th-hour nuisance suit
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Ted CoxDaily Debunk, Kenneth Griffin, Fair Tax Amendment, Illinois Fair Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Coalition to Stop the Proposed Tax Hike Amendment, Illinois State Board of Elections, Daniel Biss, Quentin Fulks, Vote Yes for Fair Tax, Vote Yes for Fairness, Rich Miller, Capitol Fax, Illinois Policy Institute, John Tillman, Jesse White, Susana Mendoza, John Bouman
Rep. Cassidy: No dice on Dwight ICE facility
Proposed federal detention center runs into immediate opposition, state law
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Ted CoxICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Dwight Women's Prison, Kelly Cassidy, J.B. Pritzker, Rich Miller, Capitol Fax, Robert Peters, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, National Immigrant Justice Center
Pols urged to denounce hate speech on sight
It’s critical to ‘do it in real time,’ says David Goldenberg of Anti-Defamation League
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Ted CoxAnti-Defamation League, David Goldenberg, Doug Walter, Illinois Stay-At-Home Order, Illinois Nazis, Karen Freeman-Wilson, Chicago Urban League, Dominic Barrington, Michael Ziri, Equality Illinois, Maricela Garcia, Andy Kang, Association of Asian Americans for Justice, Gads Hill Center, Rich Miller, Capitol Fax, Three Percenters, Orphans of the American Dream Podcast, Darren Bailey, Chris Miller, Mark Curran, Marvin Hightower, Jaime di Paulo, Illinois Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Jim Durkin
Illinois Nazis, seriously GOP?
Republican state reps., Senate candidate court ‘Reopen Illinois’ protesters carrying anti-Semitic signs
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Ted CoxAnti-Semitism, Illinois Anti-Semitism, Illinois Nazis, J.B. Pritzker, Adolf Hitler, Arthur Jones, Bruce Rauner, Donald Trump, Darren Bailey, Chris Miller, Mark Curran, David Goldenberg, Anti-Defamation League, Jordan Abudayyeh, Illinois Stay-At-Home Order, Gretchen Whitmer, Dana Nessel, Rich Miller, Capitol Fax, Orphans of the American Drea, Orphans of the American Dream Podcast, Three Percenters
Poll shows Illinoisans back Pritzker
More than three-quarters of state voters support stay-at-home order; new record set for daily testing
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Ted CoxCoronavirus Testing, Coronavirus, Coronavirus Stimulus, Illinois Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 Testing, Illinois COVID-19 Toll, Illinois COVID-19, J.B. Pritzker, Donald Trump, Rich Miller, David Brooks, Capitol Fax
Public pensions are not an albatross
In debate over federal bailouts, don’t lose sight of what pensions are: promised retirement income for workers who’ve earned it
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Ted CoxCoronavirus, Illinois Coronavirus, COVID-19, Illinois COVID-19 Toll, Illinois Public Pensions, Illinois Pension Reform, Illinois Pensions, Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, Mitch McConnell, Don Harmon, Rich Miller, Capitol Fax, Janus, Taft-Hartley Act, Amanda Kass, David Frum
Coronavirus cases rise to 288 statewide
Gov. Pritzker counsels to stay home, avoid mistakes made in Europe: ‘No place and no person is immune from COVID-19’
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Ted CoxCoronavirus, Illinois Coronavirus, J.B. Pritzker, Nancy Pelosi, Donald Trump, COVID-19, Ngozi Ezike, Rich Miller, Capitol Fax, Illinois Commerce Commission, Lori Lightfoot, Keith Larkin, Jackson County Board
Beware GOP mailers masquerading as Census
Dems denounce ‘shady tactics’ backing Trump, charge they threaten to undermine accurate Census count
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Ted Cox2020 U.S. Census, Illinois Republican Party, Illinois Democratic Party, Donald Trump, Michael Madigan, Al Riley, Rich Miller, Capitol Fax, Robin Kelly, Climate Change, J.B. Pritzker, Rebuild Illinois, U.S. Infrastructure, Illinois Infrastructure
J.B. volunteers Illinois to go first in prez race
After Iowa debacle, guv tweets, ‘It’s time for the most representative state in the country to be the first in the nation’
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Ted CoxIowa Caucuses, J.B. Pritzker, U.S. Presidential Campaign, U.S. Primary System, Illinois Primary, Donald Trump, Joe Walsh, David Yepsen, Paul Simon Public Policy Institute, SIUC, Politico Illinois, Capitol Fax, Rich Miller, Shia Kapos, Dick Durbin, Kyle Griffin, Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama, Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney
Report urges union push as membership slips
Unions address income inequality, but need boost, proposed ban on right-to-work laws
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Ted CoxUnions, Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School Labor and Worklife Program, U.S. Bureau pf Labor Statistics, U.S. Union Membership, Sharon Block, Bruce Rauner, J.B. Pritzker, Illinois Fair Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Right-to-Work, Janus, Rich Miller, Capitol Fax
Hold the hypocrisy on voting rights
Yes, motor-voter snafu should be investigated, but let’s also halt more widespread practice of removing legal voters from rolls
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Ted CoxJesse White, Illinois Motor Voter, Voting Rights, Illinois Automatic Voter Registration, Bruce Rauner, Matt Dietrich, Rich Miller, Capitol Fax, Andy Manar, Hannah Meisel, The Daily Line, Just Democracy Coalition, Lawrence Benito, ICIRR, Timothy Schneider, Stacey Abrams, Brian Kemp, Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, Robert Mueller, Gerrymandering
IPI: Rich to pay more under Pritzker fair tax
The conservative anti-taxers find rich folks who live alongside other rich folks in rich towns are apt to pay more on a graduated income tax
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Crashing symbols
Confederate Railroad, Nike’s Betsy Ross shoes caught in cultural whirlwind
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Ted CoxConfederate Railroad, Confederate Flag, J.B. Pritzker, Emily Bittner, Terri Bryant, Betsy Ross, George Washington, DuQuoin State Fair, Illinois State Fair, Nike, Colin Kaepernick, U.S. Civil War, Bud Billiken Parade, Bud Billiken, Snoop Dogg, Joe McKinney, Rich Miller, Ku Klux Klan, Dan Lipinski
Anti-protest energy bill stalls in Senate
Environmentalists cheer victory over measure that would have turned protest offenses into felonies
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Ted CoxMichael Hastings, Jack Darin, Sierra Club Illinois Chapter, Rich Miller, Capitol Fax, Greenpeace, Annie Leonard, Tabitha Tripp, Southern Illinoisans Against Fracturing Our Environment, Elizabeth Kosuth, Illinois People's Action, Illinois House Progressive Caucus
Give a fair shake to 'fair tax': New video!
Disinformation is rampant as Gov. Pritzker begins push for progressive income tax
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Ted CoxJ.B. Pritzker, Bruce Rauner, Illinois Policy Institute, Greg Baise, Ideas Illinois, Illinois Fair Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Illinois Flat Tax, Capitol Fax, Rich Miller
Minimum-wage hike would thrive outside Chicago
Illinois Economic Policy Institute finds earnings would rise most in central Illinois, Rockford
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Working FamiliesTed CoxSam Toia, Paul Rumler, Will Guzzardi, J.B. Pritzker, Frank Manzo IV, ILEPI, Illinois Minimum Wage, Chicago Minimum Wage, Kimberly Lightford, Rich Miller, Capitol Fax, Working Families, Illinois Working Families
Happy birthday, Illinois! New celebration video!
Rauner, Pritzker join in marking state’s bicentennial with downsized event at Chicago’s Navy Pier
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Ted CoxBruce Rauner, J.B. Pritzker, Abraham Lincoln, Kevin Cronin, Buddy Guy, Miguel Cervantes, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Alexander Hamilton, Rich Miller, Capitol Fax, REO Speedwagon, Bill Kurtis, Jim Cornelison, George Wendt, Robert Smigel, Da Superfans, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
