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Tag: illinois
Amid violent threats, lawmaker ditches bill to make unvaxxed pay hospital bills
Enlarge / Intensive Care Unit nurse monitors patients in the ICU ward at Roseland Community Hospital on December 14, 2020, in Chicago, Illinois. (credit: Getty | Scott Olson) Illinois Representative Jonathan Carroll is scrapping his proposed legislation to make willfully unvaccinated people pay COVID-19 hospital bills out of pocket after he received violent threats that also […]
Please stop adding more lanes to busy highways—it doesn’t help
Enlarge / The intersection of Interstates 10 and 610 in Houston, Texas, during evening rush hour. (credit: Getty Images) You often hear people say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. I bring this up because of an interesting—if infuriating—thread I read this morning […]
Turns out Northwestern’s controversial new AD has close ties to a mega-donor
The calls are growing louder for Northwestern University to reconsider its decision to hire Mike Polisky as athletic director. Read more…
Facebook will pay more than $300 each to 1.6M Illinois users in settlement
Enlarge / You see Facebook, Facebook sees you… (credit: Chris Jackson | Getty Images) Millions of Facebook users in Illinois will be receiving about $340 each as Facebook settles a case alleging it broke state law when it collected facial recognition data on users without their consent. The judge hearing the case in federal court […]
Illini Seem Nice, State’GG’ into’Huskers
Illinois has not had a whole lot to smile about, football-wise, this year. Or seasons, actually. Read…