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By Benjamin Cox on April 28, 2021 at 4:02pm Governor J.B. Pritzker has issued a plan today to move the state to 100% renewable energy by 2045. Pritzker’s plan incorporates some elements of the other already-proposed measures in front of the Illinois General Assembly. Hannah Meisel of NPR reports that Pritzker’s plan includes ending an energy rate formula lawmakers approved in 2011 that was championed by ComEd and Ameren. The rate law has come under recent scrutiny due to ComEd’s deferred prosecution agreement with the federal government that ensnared former Illinois Hou...

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Hold onto your wallets. Despite statements that they were concerned about the “cost” this jacks up prices including a near doubling of the rate cap. And before the proponents claim there will be “savings” - ask your self - if there are truly savings, why the need for a rate cap? And that is just on the RPS standard. CUB should definitely be subject to FOIA Are they subject to open meetings act? I notice that the exelon subsidies look like they’ll more closely match what Pritzker’s study/audit reported than what Labor is backing. Will be an interesting battle of wills.

I think the bar here is pretty low. The map just has to look less crazy. Has to trend along natural boundaries as much as possible. But the tension will always be there: partisan or not, do you group people with shared interests into the same box? Or do you group those interests in to more boxes so they have a more equitable stake in the decisions about their lives. – There is an added dimension to this data question. And that is the question of how good is the census anyway? – So we can just ignore the results of a federal census?

Tuesday, Mar 16, 2021 * Gov. JB Pritzker did several interviews with reporters yesterday. Subscribers have my report, but here are some highlights from the others. Mary Ann Ahern at NBC 5… Gov. J.B. Pritzker said while he anticipates opening up vaccine eligibility - particularly in the months ahead to meet President Joe Biden’s deadline of having all adults eligible by May 1 - the exact timing of Illinois’ expansion isn’t clear. “No announcements yet about what 1C would look like, I just think that people should start to think very much about you know the fact that we’re going ...