EAST ST. LOUIS – Great Clips salon owners who voluntarily dismissed a lockdown suit in Colorado and filed it in Madison County should have kept it in Colorado, U.S. District Judge Stephen McGlynn ruled on May 27.
Pritzker borrowed during the pandemic rather than making responsible budget decisions. So Illinois’ federal relief must repay debt rather than helping businesses recover like other states.
To the Editor:The Local Government Distributive Fund (LGDF) serves as a financial foundation for cities, villages and towns across the state and is crucial to keeping local tax burdens as low as possible.
SPRINGFIELD – Democrat State Rep. Jay Hoffman (Belleville) proposes to lop Monroe, Washington, Randolph and Perry counties off the 20th Judicial Circuit and make St. Clair County a circuit unto itself.
Jennifer Martin, Michael Murphy, and Melissa Brown will be among the featured presenters at the June 23 Environmental Law Institute presented by the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education.
U.S. Representative Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) is leading a bipartisan group of lawmakers in introducing H.R. 3489, the Reporting Instances of Non-authorized Grift (RING) Act of 2021, to assist older Americans in reporting and resolving instances of fraud.
Illinois Democrats say the changes are needed to better balance the districts by population, but the redistricting move comes just months after a longtime Democratic Supreme Court justice lost his bid for retention in a district now considered solidly Republican.
Illinois is listed as one of the states under ‘extreme’ danger of partisan gerrymandering of its state legislative and congressional redistricting maps. Gov. J.B. Pritzker can stop that threat.
BELLEVILLE – Without the benefit of a census, St. Clair County board chairman Mark Kern has drawn 29 voting districts for the benefit of current board members.
BENTON – Poplar Street Bridge contractors must defend a claim that their negligence caused the fatal fall of Washington Park auxiliary policeman Ricardo Davis, U.S. Magistrate Judge Reona Daly ruled on May 18.
Attorney General Kwame Raoul joined a coalition of 17 attorneys general in issuing a letter to U.S. Senate and Judiciary Committee leadership urging David Chipman's expeditious confirmation as director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
During a public hearing Tuesday, members of the public and the Madison County board raised concerns over the potential costs and work load of reducing the county from 29 to 25 districts.
A Republican-majority high court may not benefit Democrat politicians, but it will benefit constituents who have suffered from the arrogance, indifference, and self-serving policies of elected officials for far too long.
EAST ST. LOUIS – Phillips 66, defending a complaint that heat and poison at its Wood River refinery damaged the brain of outside worker Joe Hemmer, claims his employer’s failures caused his injuries.
Madison County Circuit Judge Amy Sholar, a Republican, announced on Monday that she will seek election next year to the seat she currently holds by appointment.
EAST ST. LOUIS – Edwardsville beauty shop Treo Salon stated a plausible claim that an insurance policy applying to communicable disease should cover lockdown losses, U.S. District Judge Stephen McGlynn ruled on May 10.
In honor of National Police Week, U.S. Representatives Mike Bost (IL-12) Rodney Davis (IL-13) and Darin LaHood (IL-18) recently introduced the David Dorn Back the Blue Act.
U.S. Representatives Rodney Davis (IL-13) and Darin LaHood (IL-18) re-introduced H.R. 3131, the David Dorn Back the Blue Act, in the House to raise police officer salaries and hire more police officers. Rep. Mike Bost (IL-12) and others are also co-sponsors of the legislation.
