Scott Holland
Contributor at Shaw Local
Husband of one, father of four. Eye On Illinois for @shawlocalnews, amateur photographer, baseball lover, pet owner. What was your favorite part of the day?
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Eye On Illinois: Supreme Court to consider whether Bost has the right to sue over mail-in voting law
2 days ago |
shawlocal.com | Scott Holland
Mike Bost will – again – have his day in court. Bost, the Republican Congressman from Murphysboro, has been since May 2022 a lead plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging Illinois’ mail-in voting law that allows election officials to count ballots up to 14 days following the election. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review whether Bost and two former presidential electors have the standing to try the case in federal court.
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3 days ago |
shawlocal.com | Scott Holland
More than 400 years ago, in July 1619, the first elected legislative body in what then was known as the New World convened in the church in Jamestown. Called the Virginia House of Burgesses, the session included Gov. George Yeardley, who’d arrived from England a few months earlier, and 22 elected representatives of 11 plantations. According to History.com, the first law enacted set the price of tobacco at a minimum of three shillings per pound.
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4 days ago |
shawlocal.com | Scott Holland
With the caveat that no proposed legislation is ever truly dead, it was a relief to see House Bill 3438 idled over the weekend. The Senate approved a plan to raise new money for struggling Chicagoland public transit agencies, but House members weren’t fully on board with things like a $1.50 adder for every online home delivery order or additional charges for taxi and rideshare purchases and new fees for charging electric vehicles.
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1 week ago |
shawlocal.com | Scott Holland
It’s that time of year again, where even having a column printed four times a week is both not enough space to keep up on everything happening in Springfield, and also too slow to assess developments as they surface. Capitol News Illinois reported Wednesday on Gov. JB Pritzker’s pledge against signing a budget relying on an increase to individual or corporate income taxes as well as the current sales tax rate or implementing a sales tax on services that currently carry exemptions.
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1 week ago |
shawlocal.com | Scott Holland
“Don’t lawmakers have anything more important to do?”Every time I wrote about the process of replacing the state flag, at least one reader would respond with some variation on that common theme: even considering a new design was an utter waste of time. Some folks were simply bewildered, others a combination of irate and vulgar.
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An all-timer. https://t.co/md45hviUr4 https://t.co/ddRPo5Kh2l
Yours truly on bass drum (not pictured), playing a cadence stolen freely from @LVilleBands in the drumline we founded at Coe before the turn of the century.
Hawkeye fans, meet your head coach for Saturday https://t.co/fzXCbXr2DD
Biased because Zak is a Libertyville friend from the mid-90s, who had the culinary dream even then, but Duke’s Alehouse in Crystal Lake has never disappointed and I really hope the Woodstock venture succeeds.
Duke's Inferno opened late last year in Woodstock, but owners acknowledge "perhaps our initial expectations were overly optimistic." https://t.co/qPpPz5gVqm
