Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner has pulled the plug on Democratic predecessor Pat Quinn’s attempt to raise the minimum wage for state contractors, require the governor to release more details about his tax returns and stop Illinois State Police from detaining people based on their immigration status.

Rauner’s executive orders, issued late on a Friday when fewer people are paying attention to the news, would effectively cancel seven edicts Quinn made during his final days as the head of state government.

The tax disclosure requirement was among a number of final jabs Quinn took at Rauner, who the ex-governor frequently criticized for releasing only limited income tax data during the campaign. Rauner has said he has turned over more information than required under law. There is no requirement under law.

I’ve argued many times before on CD that when it comes to regulation of markets, businesses or industries, it’s never a choice between: a) government regulation and b) no regulation. Rather, it’s a choice between: a) government regulation and b) regulation by arguably the most ruthless, meticulous, and conscientious group of regulators imaginable: consumers. These ruthless consumer-regulators waste no time trashing products they don’t like on websites like Amazon (see example here), trashing restaurants they don’t like on Yelp (see example here), giving bad sellers negative reviews on eBay, giving bad movies negative reviews on Rotten Tomatoes (see example here), giving contractors negative reviews on Angie’s List, giving bad Uber drivers negative reviews, giving bad taxi drivers negative reviews (that would never work), etc.

The one million companies that typically file for bankruptcy every year have also felt the wrath and strict disciplinary actions of the swarm of millions of pesky, ruthless consumer-regulators who have no tolerance for bad service, poor quality products, and high prices, and never hesitate to express their dissatisfaction when they regulate every day of the year with their regulatory certificates of approval, knows as dollar bills. When enough consumer-regulators withhold their regulatory certificates of approval from a restaurant, store or business, bankruptcy is often the inevitable collective decision of the nation’s most callous, cruel, ruthless and cold-blooded consumer-regulators.

On the other hand, the ruthless consumer-regulators also waste no time praising, endorsing and recommending the products, restaurants, movies, services, sellers, contractors and businesses they like, both by supporting them with plenty of their regulatory certificates of approval (dollars), and by giving them positive, sometimes even glowing reviews on Amazon, Yelp, Rotten Tomatoes, eBay, Angie’s List, Uber, etc.

Hector Reyes could probably write a book on the nightmares of fighting foreclosure.

It would include unexpected financial hits, unsuccessful pleas to the bank to renegotiate a mortgage, bad advice, a battle for loan modification, and scam attorneys.

“After three years of fighting, I was like, ‘You know what? I’m going to let this house go.’ It’s worth three times less than what I owe. I don’t know what I’m fighting for,” says Reyes, a 40-year-old father of three who lives in south suburban Blue Island.

Perhaps antitrust laws ought to apply to the public school monopoly. Consider how a local school board and teachers union in California are ganging up to thwart Latino parents from taking control of a failing school.

California’s revolutionary 2010 parent-trigger law enables a majority of parents to force changes at low-performing schools. Parents have successfully triggered reforms at just three schools, however, because at every attempt they’ve been bullied by the union and local school board. That’s been the case at Palm Lane Elementary, where on Wednesday more than 60% of parents defied the bullies and filed a petition with the Anaheim City School District to become a charter.

Palm Lane has been on the state Department of Education’s list of underperforming schools since 2003. In 2013 a mere 38% of students scored proficient or better on state standardized English tests and 53% in math. About 85% of its students are Latino and 60% aren’t native English speakers.

Chicago Public Schools are set to defy a mandate to launch a standardized exam districtwide this spring, despite the potential for sanctions that could include some loss of federal funding.

The district said it will administer the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers test, or PARCC, to just 66 of its more than 600 schools as an extension of a pilot program that began last year. The rest of the schools will continue to administer NWEA-MAP and EPAS exams.

School district chief Barbara Byrd-Bennett’s decision to snub PARCC, which she said was made in conjunction with the school board, could have national implications and play a role in a congressional debate over laws that created rigorous Common Core standards and a divisive system of high-stakes testing.

In the world of medical marijuana entrepreneurs in Illinois, there’s plenty of green behind the grass.

Hundreds of would-be medical marijuana growers and sellers have put millions of dollars on the line hoping for coveted state permits that were supposed to issued by former Gov. Pat Quinn by the end of last year.

To snag those valuable permits, the entrepreneurs hired consultants, lawyers and lobbyists.