Gov. JB Pritzker is asking lawmakers to eliminate nine tax breaks to balance the fiscal year 2022 budget by the end of May. Lawmakers and business groups argue the tax breaks are good for the economy, especially as the state recovers from the pandemic.
When Pritzker delivered his annual budget address from the State Fairgrounds in February, he proposed eliminating $932 million of tax breaks that he called corporate loopholes. He also proposed keeping spending flat after the pandemic reduced revenue.
“I had bolder plans for our state budget than what I am going to present to you today. It would be a lie to suggest otherwise,” Pritzker said in his address. “But as all our families have had to make hard choices over the past year, so too does state government.
St. John s Prep senior Andrew Coady of Haverhill helped the Eagles 200 free relay quartet shatter the Catholic Conference record in the event by nearly a full second. Pilot photo/courtesy St. John s Preparatory High School
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DANVERS Despite all the changes and challenges they faced, not even a pandemic could keep the student athletes of St. John s Preparatory High School from participating in their sports during the 2020-2021 academic year.
From September 2020 through early April 2021, the all-boys school employed a hybrid learning model to limit the number of students on campus. The student body was divided into two cohorts, which alternated coming to campus for two days at a time. This routine shaped the practice schedule for middle school, freshman, and junior varsity athletes, who practiced on the days when they had live instruction. Varsity athletes practiced every day, coming on campus at the end of each day of remote learn
Heights resident Anna Eastman, a former Houston ISD trustee and former state representative, said she cannot remember a time when there were so many proposed state laws that would negatively impact the transgender community. The so-called âbathroom billâ was in the 2017 Texas Legislature session and did not pass.
This year, however, Equality Texas â a political advocacy organization that advocates for LGBTQ+ rights â has identified more than 10 bills it says target transgender youth and families. In the past few weeks, bills that would ban gender-affirming healthcare for youth and prohibit youth participation in sports that align with a transgender personâs preferred identity have been moving through the House and Senate.
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Maryland legislators increase BOOST funding, pass bills expanding prenatal care grants and giving pandemic relief
April 14, 2021
In a packed last few days of the 2021 session of the Maryland General Assembly, legislators increased funding for the BOOST (Broadening Options and Opportunities for Students Today) scholarship program and approved several types of support related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Legislators also expanded a grant program for prenatal and infant care, passed measures intended to reform policing and approved a bill to get state and local governments out of the business of housing immigrants for the federal government.
After the session ended just before midnight April 12, the Maryland Catholic Conference staff was reviewing the details of dozens of bills that were wrapped up in the final hours of the session. Jenny Kraska, the MCC’s executive director, said she was pleased with some aspects of the session.