Peter Hancock
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State: Voting system fair and accurate - Evanston Now (opens the original)
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SPRINGFIELD — With early in-person and mail-in voting now underway in much of Illinois, state and local election officials insisted Friday that Illinois’s voting system is being run fairly and accurately. Sangamon County Clerk Don Gray and Illinois State Board of Elections spokesman Matt Dietrich told a Springfield audience not to buy into false reports that the system is vulnerable to widespread fraud or that voter rolls can be hacked or manipulated. “We can’t allow that disinformation to perme
State unveils plan to reach 'net zero' emissions - Evanston Now (opens the original)
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SPRINGFIELD — Illinois has made substantial progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions in recent years, but it is not yet on track to meet its goal of reaching net-zero emissions by 2050. That’s the conclusion of a new Comprehensive Climate Action Plan released this month by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. To reach that goal, the report suggests Illinois will need to enact significant changes across virtually every sector of its economy, including transportation, building constr
Medicaid change to cost Illinois hospitals billions - Evanston Now (opens the original)
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SPRINGFIELD — Illinois hospitals stand to lose upwards of $4 billion in revenue over the next several years due to impending changes in Medicaid rules that limit states’ ability to direct higher reimbursement payments to facilities that serve the most vulnerable populations. That’s according to a recent study by KFF, a nonpartisan health policy think tank, as well as estimates by the Illinois Health and Hospital Association. And unless Congress acts to reverse those policies before they take ful
State joins mail voting rules challenge - Evanston Now (opens the original)
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SPRINGFIELD — Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced Wednesday he has joined a multistate lawsuit against the U.S. Postal Service challenging new rules that purport to give it authority to regulate mail-in voting in federal elections. The suit was filed two days after the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a lower court order that had blocked the Trump administration from implementing an executive order that seeks to bar anyone who is not listed on a federally approved database of U.S. citizen
Pritzker, Bailey: Different visions for education - Evanston Now (opens the original)
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SPRINGFIELD – Gov. JB Pritzker said during Illinois State Fair festivities this month that he agrees public schools need more funding. But he also boasted about the additional funding his administration has already provided, and he said that has led to improved performance in reading and math, even though by the state’s own measure, most schools in Illinois remain underfunded. “We lifted eighth grade reading and math scores to a new high,” Pritzker told a cheering crowd at the Illinois Democrati
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