The fiery loss of the Sultana, a badly overcrowded steamboat on the Mississippi that exploded on April 27, 1865, cost over 1,700 lives – exceeding the 1,517 lost on the Titanic.
Member schools elect IHSA directors who hire an executive director and staff. The layers insulating IHSA policies from lawmakers and taxpayers are thicker than in most other education matters, but if the right people get angry, that self-governance will earn intense scrutiny.
Efficiency requires balancing competing interests. Lawmaker support of HB 4431 represents shifting priorities.
Cleaning up government requires diluting the authority of those who might peddle their influence.
General Assembly Democrats drafted a bill that significantly reduces financial liability to modify the 2008 Biometric Information Privacy Act.
The police response to the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, was the worst police tactical response to a school shooting in the nation, says former Riverside Police Chief Tom Weitzel
Government is about working for the public. Politics is about perception.
The so-called “Super Outbreak” of tornadoes over April 3-4, 1974, remains one of the worst tornado events in American history. Few remember that it began in Illinois.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and if the insurance companies don’t see it that way, lawmakers might force their hands.