BENTON – U.S. Magistrate Judge Reona Daly chopped a knee injury suit down to a scraped leg on Oct. 29, after St. Louis surgeon Jeffrey Whiting recanted his opinion in the course of a deposition.
Unless you want your blood to boil, do not watch the video from last week of supporters of a bill to amend Illinois’ Health Care Right of Conscience Act (HCRCA). Dishonesty, despotism and undisguised ignorance were on full display in a move to assure compliance with vaccine and other COVID mandates.
Chicago will spend $32 million on the nation’s largest test of universal basic income. What happens after that year is one question, as is whether handing out cash will truly fix anything.
There’s a price tag attached to the unprecedented federal money lavished on states under the pretext of COVID relief, which is over $9 trillion and growing. It’s in addition to higher federal taxes that will be needed to pay for it. It’s inflation, which is finally getting the attention it deserves.
Madison County board member Mike Babcock (R) reassured Madison County employees that the Health Department Committee would not support a COVID-19 vaccination mandate.
Downstate attorney Tom Devore, who is behind a barrage of lawsuits vs Gov. JB Pritzker and others, says proposed changes to the Illinois Health Care Right of Conscience Act are an 'absurd' attempt to legally justify past actions by Pritzker related to COVID vaccine mandates and COVID-related restrictions.
BENTON – Thomas Perko of Madison County changed lawyers too late to gather evidence for a slip and fall suit against Love’s Travel Stop in Hamel, U.S. Magistrate Judge Reona Daly ruled on Oct. 22.
DALLAS - White farmers from Marion County who sued the U.S. locally to challenge their exclusion from a loan forgiveness program must join a national class action in Texas, U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor ruled on Oct. 13.
(The Center Square) – Republicans are once again frustrated with the Democratic congressional boundary maps released on Friday, with one calling it shameful, partisan gerrymandering.
Madison County Director of Public Health Toni Corona reported that as the county approaches 50 percent vaccination, it is still seeing high transmission numbers for COVID-19.
SPRINGFIELD – Supreme Court Justices confirmed the jurisdiction of St. Clair County Circuit Judge Heinz Rudolf to decide whether pharmacists must arbitrate claims against prescription manager Optum Rx.
Rapidly rising property taxes and growing pension costs leave homeowners asked to pay more to get less. Relief requires structural pension reform, starting with a constitutional amendment.
EAST ST. LOUIS – Pizza buyers Jamie Jackson and Trenton McDonald dismissed class claims over labels on Red Baron pizzas rather than exercise their last chance to state their case.
ut the most clearly memorable time came in the search for history. It was found at the five story museum dedicated to the life and legacy of one of Louisville’s and indeed the world’s most famous citizens, Muhammed Ali.
