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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The idea for raising salaries of top Illinois state government officials, which culminated this weekend with the House voting lawmakers an 18% pay hike, began with Gov. J.B. Pritzker. But the Democratic governor said he originally requested that the General Assembly increase pay for his administration's agency directors to recruit and [...]

Missouri posts a sample application of the requirements needed to apply for a personal marijuana cultivation card before accepting them in February.

Missouri’s social services department will resume conducting Medicaid eligibility renewals on April 1 — allowing the state to once again remove people from its rolls after a three-year pause during the COVID-19 state of emergency. Since March 2020, states have been barred from removing enrollees from Medicaid during the federally-declared public health emergency in exchange [...]

The last night of service at the legendary 95-year-old Italian restaurant was December 31.

Jenny Decker wants to be the first person with a rare neurological disorder to solo sail around the world.

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is That One Guy with a comment about the FBI advisor who attacked Signal for its refusal to collect user metadata: ‘How dare you close the curtains, I was looking in those!’ I love how a company that collects as little as possible information on […]

For some reason they waited until a couple of days after the anniversary of 1/6 to do it, but their inspiration is obvious. Thanks, Donald.

Alan Blinder, a Real Economist™, says that inflation is way down: Over the past five months (June to November 2022), inflation has slowed to a crawl. Whether measured by the consumer-price index, or CPI, which most people watch, or the price index for personal consumption expenditures, or PCE, which the Federal Reserve prefers, the annualized ...continue reading "An economist tells us to listen up: inflation is now low"