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SafeGuard Surveillance owner Ed Campbell wants to know what s driving Gov. J.B. Pritzker s administration to block school districts from being reimbursed through federal COVID-19 relief funding for using his company s coronavirus surveillance testing. (Provided by SafeGuard Surveillance)
CHICAGO This story about coronavirus saliva tests might make you mad enough to spit.
It boils down to this question: Is Gov. J.B. Pritzker s administration trying to rig the market for coronavirus testing in public schools to favor University of Illinois budding COVID-19 testing operation, Shield Illinois?
That s difficult to answer, apparently.
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Pritzker s administration didn t respond to queries related to the very interesting timing, as one school district administrator put it, of a policy change on surveillance testing in schools. The change effectively made districts ineligible for reimbursement through federal coronavirus r
This year’s tornado season is expected to be wetter and more intense than usual.
Northern Illinois University Professor of Meteorology, Victor Gensini attributes this prediction to 2021’s La Niña weather pattern, when the water temperatures off of the Pacific Ocean are quite cold.
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He said strong tornado systems are beginning to concentrate in certain regions of the United States.
“If you look at the last forty years, the trends in tornado frequency are increasing in places like Illinois, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Gensini said, and they’re decreasing in the traditional ‘Wizard of Oz’ Great Plains states of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.”
When it comes to the connection between anthropogenic (human-caused) climate change and extreme weather, the gap gets smaller each year. There are clear links to drastic changes in hurricanes, floods, droughts, heat waves, fires, and winter extremes.Â
What about severe weather? We don t hear much about bigger and more dangerous tornadoes. that s because the connection between a warming world and severe weather like thunderstorms and tornadoes is much wider than with the others.
To dig into the details on this and find out what scientistsÂ
do know relating to climate change and severe weather, I spoke with a leading expert in such research.Â
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Voters wait in line to vote early at the Zeidler Municipal Building. File photo by Jeramey Jannene.
Republican-led legislatures across the country continue a systematic push to pass laws they claim are aimed at ratcheting up election security. The policy debate over voting rights and election integrity has exploded in state houses, ignited by last year’s contentious elections where more people voted particularly by absentee and mail-in ballot than ever before.
“In a backlash to 2020’s historic voter turnout, and under the pretense of responding to baseless and racist allegations of voter fraud and election irregularities, state lawmakers have introduced a startling number of bills to curb the vote,” states a report published Thursday April 1, by the Brennan Center for Justice. “As of March 24, l