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posted by Isabel Miller
Tuesday, Apr 16, 24 @ 7:43 am

Comments

  1. Right to repair would open up room for small local service businesses to keep farmers running. Right now you don’t own the tractor even if you bought it and that’s nuts. Deere et al are artificially holding your repairs hostage.

    Comment by Give Us Barabbas Tuesday, Apr 16, 24 @ 7:50 am

  2. – bans books depicting or describing sex acts from school libraries or classrooms, **with the exemption of religious texts.** –

    Fine. Every book shall now include these non-bannable passages from religious texts in an appendix.

    Religion keeps trying to play this game. Religion will keep losing.

    Comment by TheInvisibleMan Tuesday, Apr 16, 24 @ 8:09 am

  3. “Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias made it clear he wants to call it a DMV.” Anyone have any idea why? When I hear DMV, I think of jokes and corruption.

    Comment by very old soil Tuesday, Apr 16, 24 @ 8:40 am

  4. Kudos to the governor for making an important and very decisive decision to appoint a person to oversee the parole board.

    Comment by Regular democrat Tuesday, Apr 16, 24 @ 8:43 am

  5. Renaming to DMV gives the appearance of making improvements without actually doing anything but spending money on relabeling everything. Alexi is looking for things he’s done to brag about and might not really have any accomplishments to claim that weren’t already in process under Jesse.

    Comment by Give Us Barabbas Tuesday, Apr 16, 24 @ 9:06 am

  6. I listened to the hole hearing before SCOTUS and came away thinking they won’t gut the statute but it’s not standing as is. What other past cases might be affected if and when this decision is handed down. One thing for sure it wasn’t a good day for the government. Minutes into the governments lawyer opening argument Justice Kavanaugh told her ( you have a problem ) from that point on she was on it wasn’t good.

    Comment by Long time Independent Tuesday, Apr 16, 24 @ 9:12 am

  7. like the attention the Gov is giving to the PRBd The Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office used to send ASAs to hearings on old cases to bring that sort of relevant information. Foxx stopped that. sad.

    Comment by Amalia Tuesday, Apr 16, 24 @ 9:42 am

  8. @Long time Independent, I gave it a listen too and agree with your take. I suspect the court lands somewhere in the middle — establish that a “gratuity” can absolutely be prosecuted as a bribe, but require prosecutors clear a relatively high bar in order to prove a quid pro quo at trial.

    Comment by TNR Tuesday, Apr 16, 24 @ 9:51 am

  9. @Amalia, I think Foxx stopped taking positions at traditional parole hearings for the old “C-number” pre-1978 cases. I don’t believe they ever chimed in on the “new” MSR violation hearings that are now the subject of scrutiny.

    Comment by Telly Tuesday, Apr 16, 24 @ 9:57 am

  10. “The gap highlights how persistent difficulties accessing health care, and a dispassionate response from national leaders, can eat away at the fabric of rural communities.”

    This is such dishonest framing that it amounts to a lie. Really glad I canceled my WaPo subscription.
    There are really clear reasons why the working poor in rural red states don’t have access to Medicare or hospitals and it’s got nothing to do with “dispassionate responses from national leaders.”

    Comment by Larry Bowa Jr. Tuesday, Apr 16, 24 @ 10:07 am

  11. =When I hear DMV, I think of jokes and corruption.=

    It also makes me think of the Simpsons, and the DMV that Patty and Selma work at.

    Comment by NonAFSCMEStateEmployeeFromChatham Tuesday, Apr 16, 24 @ 10:19 am

  12. It is odd that Ozinga resigned without giving any type of explanation.

    Comment by Stones Tuesday, Apr 16, 24 @ 10:22 am

  13. “parts of an Iowa law that bans books depicting or describing sex acts from school libraries or classrooms, with the exemption of religious texts”

    Apparently the hypocritical ban has nothing to do with “sex acts” but political ideology and pandering. If the acts were truly objectionable the Bible would be banned also (see Lot and his daughters).

    Comment by Grandson of Man Tuesday, Apr 16, 24 @ 10:30 am

  14. @Telly, yes, the old cases. and she should have continued that. infamously she did not recently oppose parole for a killer of two police officers from the 1970s. but one problem with the public understanding is they still seem to refer to parole for the cases including those under the newer criminal statutes. that is not actually the correct term. the board could do everyone a service by telling folks about the different laws that prisoners are in on and using correct language.

    Comment by Amalia Tuesday, Apr 16, 24 @ 10:34 am

  15. Rampant political corruption is part of the fabric of NW Indiana politics. A judge labeled a former mayor’s administration as a criminal enterprise for the Sidewalks for Votes scandal. The mayor was ordered to pay $108 million in restitution to the city. He served no jail time.

    A former councilman ducked out to Greece where there is no extradition to avoid jail time.

    An article labeled the area a Cornucopia of Corruption. Such alliteration.

    Comment by Rudy’s teeth Tuesday, Apr 16, 24 @ 10:48 am

  16. ===When I hear DMV, I think of jokes and corruption.===

    Lived in 2 states with DMVs, relatives in other states with DMVs, and NOWHERE do DMVs have anything close to Paul Powell & George Ryan … .

    Comment by Anyone Remember Tuesday, Apr 16, 24 @ 10:56 am

  17. –the Bible would be banned also–

    Gotta think bigger. There are far more religious texts than just the bible with this type of material. Use those to showcase the absurdity of these laws.

    If you want to see heads explode, start filling libraries with the Xuannü Jing. It’s a religious text dealing with these topics, and it’s from China. Or turn the volume up to 11, and use religious texts about Tu’er Shen.

    Or probably best of all, religious texts regarding Erzulie Dantor and Erzulie Freda. That pretty much ties everything together under the same roof.

    Opportunities abound.

    Comment by TheInvisibleMan Tuesday, Apr 16, 24 @ 11:03 am

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