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Posted by Illinois Issues blog 2 weeks 1 day ago.
By Jamey Dunn After pressure from lawmakers and years of public scrutiny, Senate President John Cullerton is sponsoring a bill to end the legislative scholarship program.Cullerton said he had hoped the program could be reformed. But after the majority of ...
Posted by Illinois Issues blog 2 weeks 1 day ago.
By Jamey Dunn A House committee moved today to end a guarantee that the state will subsidize retiree health care.State employees currently do not have to pay premiums for their health care if they have worked for 20 years or more. Legislators are not char...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 2 weeks 1 day ago.
But posting every year gets it out there. I know that I have never posted anything from their blog. This is about Earth Day in India and I though it was cool because it shows how far the idea has spread. http://www.earthday.org/blog/2012/05/01/guest-blog-...
Posted by New Beginnings Photography 2 weeks 1 day ago.
If you’re a 2012 Senior, it’s not too late to have some ah-mazing senior portraits before graduation! Give me a call at the studio to set up a consultation at 217.679.1757 or email me Sarah@nbpstudio.com. And now, Gracie’s super creative...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 weeks 1 day ago.
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Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 weeks 1 day ago.
* OK, it’s a little fuzzy looking because I had to increase the size so you could see it, but this is from the decennial Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies survey of predominant religions by county. First up, mainline Protest...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 2 weeks 1 day ago.
The little ways that climate change impacts people and our surroundings keep surprising me. Recently, I'm experiencing how mild winters like we had this year will be horrible for my asthma and allergies. It didn't freeze long enough to kill off many aller...
Posted by Jeannette Eats Spaghetti 2 weeks 1 day ago.
Today is the last day you can take my age, divide by 11 and get three. As of tomorrow, to get a whole number even close to three, you'll have to divide my age by 17. Who wants to go to all that trouble to end up with a lousy two--------------------------...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 weeks 1 day ago.
* A Bloomberg headline from earlier this week…
Illinois Faces 25% Cost Increase to Borrow $1.8 Billion
The explanation…
The tax-exempt deal for the state, rated lowest by Moody’s Investors Service, includes a 10-year segment that underwriter...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 weeks 1 day ago.
* The State Journal-Register pleaded today with four area Republican legislators who oppose the governor’s pension and Medicaid fixes, but won’t come up with alternative ideas of their own…
But at this point — with the session set to e...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 weeks 1 day ago.
* The House approved a bill in March to abolish the so-called General Assembly scholarship program by a vote of 79-29. The bill has been sitting in a Senate subcommittee ever since, and the chairperson of that subcommittee, Sen. Kim Lightford, is a major...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 weeks 1 day ago.
* Rep. Elaine Nekritz has revamped her bill to delete Illinois’ felony penalties for audio recording a police officer in the line of duty…
SB1808 is nearly identical to HB3944 except for one key aspect. The new bill requires state’s atto...
Posted by The Mental Munition Factory 2 weeks 1 day ago.
Yesterday, Salon ran a piece on the proliferation of drones at research universities. As Jefferson Morley wrote, universities are at the are at the forefront of developing the unmanned aerial systems that will be monitoring crops, assessing damage, and do...
Posted by Iggy Uncensored 2 weeks 1 day ago.
A few things had changed for the better since our last stay a year ago at the Crowne Plaza in Springfield IL ( May 6 2011 ). The elevators no longer have the knife carving graffiti in the wood panels. Replacement panels didn’t look to be as high a q...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 weeks 1 day ago.
* It’s hard to argue with the guy…
The head of the Illinois prison system told a legislative subcommittee that he believes millions of dollars paid out in workers’ compensation claims to Menard guards who claimed injury from turning keys...
Posted by Springfield Moms 2 weeks 1 day ago.
The Powerworks Kids have helped plant a "Garden of Change" this spring. The garden includes tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, blackberries, strawberries, blueberries, peaches, cucumbers, sugar snap peas, green beans, radishes, lettuce, sweet potatoes...
Posted by Matt Penning Images 2 weeks 2 days ago.
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } When I was putting my gear together for my walk tonight, I looked at the sky and ...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 weeks 2 days ago.
by the BBC
Children under the age of 13 are not supposed to have Facebook accounts. Parents are helping their children to set up under-age profiles on social networking site Facebook, Children’s Minister Tim Loughton has said. This meant that childr...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 weeks 2 days ago.
by the BBC
The US House of Representatives has passed a cyber-security bill amid a veto threat from President Barack Obama. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (Cispa), would allow the government to access web users’ private data on su...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 weeks 2 days ago.
by the BBC
Nokia took the top spot in 1998 from Motorola, but in the first quarter of 2012 Samsung shipped 93m phones compared to almost 83m by Nokia. Samsung also reported its highest quarterly profit since 2008. Net profit was 5.05tn won ($4.5bn; £2.8b...
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