Amanda Vinicky
Correspondent at WTTW-TV (Chicago, IL)
@WTTW #ChicagoTonight correspondent, previously @nprillinois. ☕ and #mustard obsessed. Proud @HeadlineClub member and #FOIAFest backer
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1 month ago |
ourcommunitynow.com | Amanda Vinicky
Health At first blush, it seems basic. After a doctor writes a prescription, a patient gets it filled at a pharmacy. But the pharmacy isn’t in full control. There’s a go-between: a pharmacy benefit manager, or PBM, which negotiates prices with wholesalers, sets reimbursement rates on drugs and compiles the lists of which medicines an insurer will cover (known as formularies).
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1 month ago |
ourcommunitynow.com | Amanda Vinicky
The U.S. Department of Justice, already suing Illinois in an effort to strike down the state’s sanctuary protections for undocumented immigrants, wants to use its heft to take out another Illinois law. In January, the American Alliance for Equal Rights went to federal court alleging that Illinois is unconstitutionally forcing private entities to discriminate with its first-in-the-nation law requiring nonprofits to post online the demographics of their leadership.
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1 month ago |
ourcommunitynow.com | Amanda Vinicky
Share Politics By this time next year, Illinois will no longer charge a tax on groceries — a move Gov. JB Pritzker has gone out of his way to highlight, such as in his annual marquee budget address last week when he said “we lowered taxes on parents when we enacted the Child Tax Credit and permanently eliminated the state grocery tax — together saving Illinoisans more than half a billion dollars per year.
Civic Federation Says Illinois Should Extend Sales Tax to Services to Help Bridge $3B Budget Deficit
2 months ago |
ourcommunitynow.com | Amanda Vinicky
Share Business Illinois should extend its sales tax to services like haircuts, dry cleaning and plumbing, the nonpartisan Civic Federation recommended in a report out Wednesday — a week before Gov. J.B. Pritzker is set to share his much-anticipated budget proposal. The report said despite marked improvements in recent years, the state has a long road to get on sound fiscal footing. “Fiscal year 2026 brings the State to a critical crossroads,” the Civic Federation analysis said.
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2 months ago |
northernpublicradio.org | Sean Crawford |Amanda Vinicky
The week began with immigration raids in Chicago and a federal funding freeze. It ended with the governor saying Donald Trump is unfit to be president. Illinois has already gone to court to fight Trump's orders. But what may lie ahead for the blue state? We'll discuss that and more on State Week. Host Sean Crawford is joined by Professor Emeritus Charlie Wheeler and Chicago Tonight's Amanda Vinicky.
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