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On March 3, 2021, Illinois Senator Melinda Bush SB0345, entitled the "Carpet Stewardship Act" which would implement "fee" or "assessment" (tax), per square yard, for all carpet sold in the State of Illinois.

Emails show New York City’s Civilian Complaint Review Board leaders discouraged staff from confronting the NYPD about a lack of cooperation on abuse investigations. The agency declined to disclose how many officers are facing misconduct charges.

Owen Costanza’s Response Misleading; Doesn’t Match Public Records (Poplar Grove, IL) -Yesterday we published complaints against Owen Costanza by the Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin State Insurance Licensing Regulators, and Costanza responded with his version of what he was willing to tell us.

After decades of secrecy, two judges have ruled defendants can investigate whether TrueAllele’s probabilistic genotyping algorithm works as advertised.

Oportun Inc., a small-dollar loan company, disclosed to investors that it is the subject of a probe by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau following reporting by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune

The Lost Year: What the Pandemic Cost Teenagers - Everything looks the same on either side of the Texas-New Mexico border in the great oil patch of the Permian Basin. There are the pump jacks scattered across the plains, nodding up and down with metronomic regularity.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker Needs to Order his Appointed IDPH Director to Immediately Implement the Illinois Nursing Home Care Act - Sec: 8 against those Nursing Homes that aren’t in compliance.

Bill Would Make General Assembly Conservators of the Peace; Grant Arrest Powers (Illinois) - A Bill introduced by Illinois State Representative Curtis J. Tarver, II, would make all State Representatives and State Senators Conservators of the Peace:

According to data from The Markup’s Citizen Browser project, there are major disparities in who is shown public health information about the pandemic

“I am absolutely, firmly and totally committed to this NorthPoint job creation opportunity. There is no way under Heaven’s earth that I will passively sit by and watch 10,000 sorely needed jobs in my district evaporate into thin air. We will fight until the finish about this!”-US Congressman Rush