Illinois Governor Invested in Company
With $2.6 Billion In State Contracts
Posted By: AltaD, 3/30/2022 11:11:14 AM
Amid the national debate over whether members of Congress should be able to trade stock, the governor of Illinois is demonstrating how prevalent conflicts of interest are for elected officials who own securities. In 2020, Gov. JB Pritzker’s trust bought stock in the health insurance company Centene Corp. That same year, Illinois gave $2.6 billion worth of Medicaid contracts to Centene Corp.(Snip)While not illegal, the association’s experts say Pritzker could have instructed his trust managers not to invest in state contractors to eliminate the potential for a conflict of interest. Pritzker and his trust managers refuse to disclose how much the investments are worth nor when the investments were made.
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Just when you think you’ve seen the worst of her, proof emerges that she was even more duplicitous than we knew.
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survivors, has died at 105 10 replies
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He came, he saw, he confused.
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Just when you think you’ve seen the worst of her, proof emerges that she was even more duplicitous than we knew.
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Canceling Beethoven: Who's Relevant to Whom?
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“Joy, immortal incandescence
Daughter of Elysium!
Breathing fire from your presence
To your temple ground we come.”
This is the invocation of joy that begins Friedrich Schiller’s great Ode, whose first three stanzas were set by Beethoven in the final movement of his 9th Symphony. Baltimore Symphony conductor Marin Alsop has replaced them with doggerel from a local rapper. She explained to Baltimore magazine:
You know, the [Friedrich] Schiller poetry is phenomenal, but it’s not relevant for us today. (Snip) Alsop also inserted African drumming and a jazz ensemble between movements of Beethoven’s symphony.
This is idiotic in more ways