COLA Bill Signed

Thanks Fatass!

• A nearly four-decade moratorium on the construction of nuclear plants in Illinois will end next year under a measure signed Friday by Gov. J.B. Pritzker, who vetoed an earlier version of the bill.

  Legislators passed a new iteration of the bill last month that addressed concerns Pritzker raised in an August veto message about the size of nuclear plants that would be allowed under the initial legislation.

  With Pritzker’s signature, Illinois joins a number of other states that recently have rescinded similar bans as policymakers are taking a fresh look at nuclear power as another alternative to generate energy without increasing carbon output.

Wait, what? This isn't what....oh....so someone finally woke up Porky to the fact that if you want carbon-neutral electric everything, the only way forward is nuclear. About fucking time. It's just too bad that there isn't a single company waiting to go through the permitting process to build a plant, and probably won't be until after we die.

In the mean time, the COLA Bill that grants cops the same thing that every other government worker in existence got years ago, is buried at the bottom of this article, sixteen paragraphs in:

• Pritzker on Friday also signed into a law a measure that would boost the pensions for some Chicago police officers.

  Cost-of-living increases will now be on par with the Chicago firefighters’ pensions, which were adjusted through a measure passed by the legislature in 2021. Instead of having different annual pension hikes based on birth date, all officers will get the same 3% annual increase. The law also eliminates the 30% limit on increases during a pensioner’s lifetime.

  Before the changes were made for firefighters and now for police officers, Chicago officials came to the legislature every few years to push the cutoff birth date forward to allow more first responders to get their full increases — while continuing to base the city’s pension contributions on the amount of money that would be needed if the old restrictions remained in place. This has led to perpetual underfunding of the pension system, said state Sen. Robert Martwick, a Chicago Democrat who sponsored the pension legislation.

  The pension changes will, however, cost the city millions of dollars.

The left has spent so long demonizing the police, anything good must be hidden at the bottom of an article that no one is going to read all the way through. And it has to sound as bad as possible - "...cost the city millions..." - without explaining how the city  has been spending that tax money somewhere else and purposefully under-funding promises.