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Liza Tarbuck lands major new TV gig after leaving BBC Radio 2

Tarbuck is joining one of the UK’s most popular shows

The Independent UK

The Festive Pottery Throw Down 2024: release date, celebrities, challenges, trailer, interviews and everything you need to know

The Festive Pottery Throw Down 2024 is a celebrity Christmas special with Martin Kemp, Rachel Riley, Tom Rosenthal and Babatunde Aleshe.

WhatToWatch

Kirstie's Handmade Christmas 2024: release date, new format, location, celebs and everything we know

Kirstie's Handmade Christmas 2024 — crafting Queen Kirstie Allsopp reveals the new location, celebrities and her favourite magical makes in a brand new festive series.

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The Great Pottery Throw Down season 7: release date, guest judges, interview with and all about the 2024 series

The Great Pottery Throw Down is back for a seventh series on Channel 4, with Derry Girls star Siobhán McSweeney again hosting.

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Rep. Blaine Wilhour of the Illinois Freedom Caucus has a primary fight on his hands

If nothing else, a barrage of union money aimed at Wilhour could divert “Eastern Bloc” resources away from their hoped-for battle against Rep. Dave Severin, Rich Miller writes.

Chicago Sun-Times

Illinois is due for some budget belt-tightening

If state revenues fall in the next fiscal year, as projected, base spending will likely have to be cut, Rich Miller writes.

Chicago Sun-Times

Supporters of Invest in Kids scholarships didn’t try hard enough to get to bargaining table

Too many proponents seemed more interested in battling with teachers’ unions than seeking a deal to protect kids already in the program, Rich Miller writes.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Pritzker overcomes ‘gargantuan hurdles’ to get Stellantis to reopen, expand Belvidere auto assembly plant

Give credit where it’s due: Pritzker helped the United Auto Workers Union and the White House put together a deal with Stellantis, Rich Miller writes.

Chicago Sun-Times

Pritzker draws ire from unions with flip-flop on Invest in Kids scholarships

Democratic legislators now have a preview of what the unions will say if they do vote to keep the program alive, Rich Miller writes.

Chicago Sun-Times

Mayor Johnson accepts reality: State won’t consider more money for migrants until 2024

That should end City Hall’s lobbying via news media for more money this fall and lower the temperature a little, Rich Miller writes.

Chicago Sun-Times

Migrant crisis demands more leadership by Gov. Pritzker

What the City of Chicago has actually done is floated a lot of ideas, but not implemented them and flailed all along the way, Rich Miller writes.

Chicago Sun-Times

Many Illinois counties don’t have the resources to meet demands of SAFE-T Act

These counties want more more to implement the act, and the state should probably start a conversation about how dozens of small Illinois counties can effectively govern in a modern society, Rich Miller writes.

Chicago Sun-Times

Illinois legislators have a lot to learn about nuclear power

Lawmakers in Springfield who are not willing to put much effort into learning fundamental details have no business writing future energy legislation, writes David A. Kraft, director of the Nuclear Energy Information Service.

Chicago Sun-Times

Civic Committee aims to tackle crime from a new perspective

The Civic Committee has evolved from a standard business group issuing standard business demands to taking a much more nuanced, holistic approach to solving very difficult, perhaps intractable problems like crime.

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ComEd trial puts spotlight on lobbying practices of state politicians

Mike Madigan “perfected” his political and statehouse operation to the point where companies and other special interests believed they had to hire his people to advance their bills, Rich Miller writes.

The Guardian - UK

The Island review – this nautical panel show is so laugh-free it’s a wreck

Four comedians spend an hour sitting around a table, imagining they’re on a cruise ship that has run aground. How is this going to stretch to five episodes?

Chicago Sun-Times

A Richard Irvin radio interview gave his GOP primary opponents a chance to pounce

Irvin told WJPF Radio host Tom Miller, "I’ve always been opposed to mandates." But it has been known that he strongly supported state mandates as mayor of Aurora.

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