Via the State Journal-Register State Rep. Sue Scherer said Wednesday that she remains adamantly opposed to extending the temporary income tax increase despite citing progress the state has made in meeting its pension payments and paying down its backlog of…
Read MoreVia My Suburban Life LIBERTYVILLE – Local leaders addressed Lake County business concerns at an annual multi-chamber legislative breakfast at Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville Tuesday. In addition to fielding audience questions about state income taxes and strategic consolidation,…
Read MoreVia the Chicago Tribune The Chicago City Council Wednesday is expected to approve expanding the authority of the city’s internal watchdog to the little-known Public Building Commission that spends hundreds of millions of dollars a year to build, rent and maintain…
Read Morevia the Supreme Court of The United States To read retired Justice John Paul Stevens’s speech, “Oops!”, on campaign finance Click Here
Read MoreVia the Daily Herald Both Gov. Pat Quinn and Bruce Rauner are unhappy with the concealed carry legislation that is now the law in Illinois, but that’s where their agreement on Second Amendment issues ends. The upcoming gubernatorial race pits…
Read MoreVia the Chicago Sun-Times Chicago, let’s raise the minimum wage. Let’s make life better for our lowest-wage workers and those a notch above. Let’s hike a minimum wage that has eroded so deeply it is now, in real buying power,…
Read MoreVia the State Journal-Register CHICAGO — A Chicago attorney and anti-corruption campaigner is stressing that a court-appointed monitor is needed to ensure the state’s Department of Transportation is in compliance with political hiring bans. Michael Shakman’s filing Monday in federal court comes…
Read MoreVia Credit WSIU By Bill Wheelhouse Brian Gaines has watched Illinois politics for 20 years. He says the current system of drawing legislative and congressional maps is bad and he hopes reformers can do something before the next re-map in…
Read MoreVia Montgomery Community Media The Montgomery County Council today unanimously enacted Bill 16-14, which will allow candidates for County Council and County Executive to qualify for partial public financing for their campaigns. This is the first measure of its type…
Read MoreVia Chicago Sun-Times Editorial The last year has been relatively quiet on the political corruption front. U.S. Attorney Zachary Fardon has pushed only a handful of cases alleging wrongdoing by local pols, though he may have more in the works….
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