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Eater
27-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Eater
Lilo in Carlsbad Earns San Diego's Only Michelin Star for 2025
The 2025 California Michelin Guide was announced last night in Sacramento's SAFE Credit Union Performing Arts Center to a crowd of chefs and restaurant professionals, with new stars awarded across the state. Carlsbad's Lilo from the Jeune et Jolie/Campfire team came home with the San Diego area's only star, while Atelier Manna in Leucadia was given a Bib Gourmand. No other awards were doled out for San Diego, though the one star for Lilo marks a significant moment for chef Eric Bost and partner John Resnick. Lilo opened a little over 10 weeks ago behind Bost and Resnick's casual all-day restaurant Wildland. Lilo serves 22 diners at a time across mostly counter seating that wraps around a fully open cooking area (there are also two four-top tables for larger groups) inside a stunning, architecturally compelling space. There, diners enjoy seven full courses with counterside flourishes by kitchen staff. Just outside, diners are escorted to lounge areas before and after their meal for pre-dinner snacks and post-prandial drinks. The multi-faceted tasting menu reflects a more ambitious dinner compared to Bost and Resnick's other Michelin-starred restaurant, Jeune et Jolie, hinting that Lilo could very well earn two or more stars in the coming years. In Leucadia, Atelier Manna opened in April 2023 from the former Jeune et Jolie chef Andrew Bachelier as a chic neighborhood cafe. With a 'food as medicine' approach serving overnight oats with ancient grains and Turkish-style poached eggs, the casual cafe earned the San Diego area's only new Bib Gourmand. The overall relatively subtle award action for San Diego raises questions about the focus of the guide on larger locales like San Francisco (which gained two new two-star restaurants) and Los Angeles (which gained two new three-star restaurants). The southern stretch of California now has six total Michelin-starred restaurants (five with one, and Addison with three). San Diego also came up empty in this month's James Beard Awards, with Animae chef Tara Monsod earning a finalist nod but losing out Best Chef: California to Kato's Jon across the border in Baja California's Valle de Guadalupe, the Michelin Guide for Mexico awarded stars for the first time to Olivea Farm to Table and Lunario. See More: San Diego Restaurant News
Yahoo
09-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
IDOL recovers unpaid wages for workers on Saline County solar project
HENDERSON, Ky. (WEHT) – The Illinois Department of Labor (IDOL) has recovered over $85,000 in unpaid wages. The IDOL has recovered these unpaid wages for 17 workers that were employed on a construction project in Saline County. IDOL also recovered more than $17,000 in penalties from D&D Electric, LLC (D&D). Eggs sold at Walmart, other grocers in 9 states recalled amid salmonella outbreak 'Illinois law requires that employees on publicly funded projects be paid a fair wage for their skilled work,' said Illinois Department of Labor Director Jane Flanagan. 'Making these workers whole reflects IDOL's commitment to enforcing the Prevailing Wage Act and holding employers accountable when they violate workers' rights.' IDOL says it began its investigation of the Harrisburg, Illinois-based contractor in 2024 for its work on a solar panel installation. The department says it determined D&D violated the State's Prevailing Wage Act by allegedly failing to properly classify workers and correctly compensate them for fringe benefits and overtime. IDOL explains the Prevailing Wage Act requires contractors and subcontractors to pay laborers, workers and mechanics employed on public works projects no less than the general prevailing rate of wages, which consists of hourly cash wages plus fringe benefits, for work of similar character in the locality where the work is performed. U.S. Supreme Court to hear Representative Bost's case on mail-in voting IDOl says the Illinois Climate and Equitable Jobs Act (CEJA) ensured that new clean energy construction jobs are also quality high-wage jobs by requiring that contractors pay prevailing wages for workers on projects receiving incentives through the Illinois Power Agency. Officials say if a worker believes they have not been properly compensated for work performed in Illinois, they can file a complaint online or call 312-793-2800 with questions. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
03-06-2025
- General
- Yahoo
U.S. Supreme Court to hear Representative Bost's case on mail-in voting
HENDERSON, Ky. (WEHT) – According to Capitol News Illinois (CNI), the U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear an appeal on a lawsuit led by Illinois Republican U.S. Representative Mike Bost challenging Illinois' mail-in voting law. CNI reports Rep. Bost and a pair of Illinois primary delegates for President Donald Trump sued the Illinois State Board of Elections in 2022, arguing that the state's law allowing mail-in ballots to be counted after Election Day violates the federal law establishing an 'Election Day.' Both a lower federal trial court and federal appeals court have ruled Bost lacked standing to sue. Crews work to repair sink hole near Oak Hill Cemetery The Supreme Court said its ruling will focus on whether Rep. Bost, of Murphysboro, in his role as a political candidate, has legal grounds to sue over a state's election law, rather than if Illinois' mail-in voting law is legal, because the appeal challenges lower court rulings that Rep. Bost allegedly did not have legal grounds to sue. USI to propose no tuition increase at public forum June 5 According to CNI, a favorable ruling for Rep. Bost by the Supreme Court could force lower courts to issue a ruling about Illinois' law. It's not clear when the nation's high court will hear Bost's case. The court is scheduled to begin hearing oral arguments in October. According to this report, under Illinois law, ballots postmarked by Election Day can be counted as late as 14 days after the election as they arrive at local election offices. Rep. Bost's case argues this violates the federal law establishing Election Day by allowing votes to arrive and be counted for two weeks after the polls close. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
03-06-2025
- General
- Yahoo
U.S. Supreme Court will hear Bost's appeal over Illinois' mail-in ballots
The U.S. Supreme Court announced in an order filed on Monday that it will hear a southern Illinois congressman's appeal over the state's counting of mail-in ballots received up to 14 days after Election Day. U.S. Rep. Mike Bost, R-Muphysboro, and two Illinois delegates to the Republican National Convention first filed the lawsuit against the Illinois State Board of Elections in May 2022 — alleging that counting ballots after the election violated federal election law. A President Trump-appointed judge in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Bost and the other plaintiffs lacked legal standing to challenge the state law. The high court agreed to hear Bost's appeal on standing during its next term, which is scheduled to start in October. 'With the American people's confidence in our elections at a discouraging low point, it's more important than ever we work to restore their trust,' Bost said in a statement. 'I believe a big part of that effort is ensuring all votes are tallied by Election Day, not days or weeks later.' The conservative activist group Judicial Watch will represent Bost and the other plaintiffs' appeal. 'The Supreme Court's decision to hear this case is a critical opportunity to uphold federal law, protect voter rights, and ensure election integrity,' said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. 'Illinois' 14-day extension of Election Day thwarts federal law, violates the civil rights of voters, and invites fraud.' A spokesman for the Illinois State Board of Elections declined to comment on the pending litigation. Bost has represented Illinois' 12th Congressional District since 2015, which includes portions of the Metro East. St. Louis Public Radio's Rachel Lippmann contributed to this report.
Yahoo
02-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
US Supreme Court to hear arguments on whether challenge to Illinois mail-in voting law can proceed
The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it would decide whether Republicans can challenge Illinois' law that allows mail-in election ballots to be counted 14 days after Election Day, following lower federal courts' previous dismissals of the GOP effort. The lawsuit, led by downstate Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Bost, comes as the GOP and President Donald Trump have pushed for the recognition of a singular Election Day ballot count — most recently in a presidential executive order issued in March — despite state laws allowing ballots to be counted after Election Day as long as they are postmarked or voter-signed and certified on or before the election date. In the Illinois case, both the U.S. District Court and the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago ruled Bost and two presidential electors lacked legal standing when they challenged the law in May 2022. The courts did not decide on the merits of the case regarding the legality of post-Election Day ballot counting. But in dismissing the lawsuit in July 2023, U.S. District Judge John Kness also wrote that he thought Illinois' 2015 law complied with the U.S. Constitution as well as federal election law and does 'not conflict with the federal mandate that Election Day be held on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November.' 'By counting only mail-in ballots postmarked on or before Election Day, the statute does not extend the day for casting votes in a federal election,' Kness, a Trump appointee, wrote. In a 2-1 decision in August of last year, a three-judge panel of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the lower court's dismissal due to lack of standing. Judicial Watch, a conservative legal organization that had worked unsuccessfully with Trump to stop post-Election Day ballot counting in the 2020 presidential race, is representing Bost and appealed last November to the U.S. Supreme Court. The suit contended the state law violated the federally established date for federal elections. About 20 states have similar post-Election Day counting laws. But in its appeal to the nation's highest court, Judicial Watch noted a federal appeals court in Louisiana last fall sided with Republicans and ruled Mississippi's law allowing mail-in ballot counting after Election Day violated federal law. Bost has argued the counting of 'late, illegal ballots dilutes the value of' lawfully cast votes and infringes upon his right as a federal candidate to stand for office and that he faces added costs for poll watchers post Election Day. Bost has also alleged that post-Election Day votes could reduce his margin of victory and that this 'will lead to the public perception that my constituents have concerns about my job performance' and would 'influence numerous third parties, such as future voters, Congressional leadership, donors and potential political opponents.' Trump has made numerous false, misleading and unsupported claims about mail-in balloting, calling them in his 2020 election loss a 'whole big scam.' But even as he argued against them, the Republican National Committee and the Illinois Republican Party ramped up efforts to get GOP voters to cast ballots by mail. Still, the RNC and the National Republican Congressional Committee filed briefs in support of the election law challenge. Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, called it 'an injustice that the courts would deny a federal candidate the ability to challenge an election provision' that they view illegal. 'The Supreme Court's decision to hear this case is a critical opportunity to uphold federal law, protect voter rights, and ensure election integrity,' Fitton said. 'Illinois' 14-day extension of Election Day thwarts federal law, violates the civil rights of voters, and invites fraud.' Yet in its appeal, Justice Watch said Bost and the GOP activists 'do not allege voter fraud, nor do they allege that ballots were mailed after Election Day, contrary to Illinois law.' Instead, they allege ballots received after Election Day are illegal and are 'as invalid as if they were received one year after Election Day.' The U.S. Justice Department under President Joe Biden filed briefs in support of the Illinois law, in part because the statute was aimed at ensuring that late arriving votes cast overseas by U.S. military members would be counted. Ironically, Bost, in his sixth House term from Murphysboro, is a Marine veteran who serves as chairman of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee. In a statement, Bost said he was 'thankful' the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review the ruling that he lacked standing to challenge the law. 'With the American people's confidence in our elections at a discouraging low point, it's more important than ever we work to restore their trust,' Bost said. 'I believe a big part of that effort is ensuring all votes are tallied by Election Day, not days or weeks later,' he said. 'This is a critical moment for the rule of law and election integrity.'
