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Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 weeks 2 days ago.
* You’d think that with all the heat on the legislative scholarship program that legislators would want to avoid doing stuff like this…
In state Rep. Robert Rita’s legislative district — which covers a swath of Chicago’s south suburbs an...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 weeks 2 days ago.
* Doug Finke looks at Gov. Pat Quinn’s decision to close Jacksonville Developmental Center…
The closure plan hinges on placing residents in community-based settings. Those are the same organizations that many times wait months and months to ge...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 weeks 2 days ago.
* Today’s announcement by the Sun-Times editorial board came as a complete surprise to a whole lot of people…
Seventy-one years ago, Marshall Field III founded this newspaper to create a bully pulpit, on the editorial page, for America’s e...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 weeks 5 days ago.
* Earlier this week, we talked about how a candidate who felt he’d been libeled on the campaign trail was blocked by a Cook County judge from suing because of the Illinois’ Citizen Participation Act, which is designed to prevent “strategic l...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 weeks 6 days ago.
* From a WSJ editorial…
And—no surprise—in part because the tax increases have caused companies to leave Illinois, the state budget office confesses that as of this month the state still has $6.8 billion in unpaid bills and unaddressed obligatio...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 weeks 6 days ago.
* From a WSJ editorial…
And—no surprise—in part because the tax increases have caused companies to leave Illinois, the state budget office confesses that as of this month the state still has $6.8 billion in unpaid bills and unaddressed obligatio...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 weeks 6 days ago.
* From a WSJ editorial…
And—no surprise—in part because the tax increases have caused companies to leave Illinois, the state budget office confesses that as of this month the state still has $6.8 billion in unpaid bills and unaddressed obligatio...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 weeks 6 days ago.
* From a WSJ editorial…
And—no surprise—in part because the tax increases have caused companies to leave Illinois, the state budget office confesses that as of this month the state still has $6.8 billion in unpaid bills and unaddressed obligatio...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 weeks 6 days ago.
* It’s amazing to me that this building is still standing…
Bulldozers soon may finish what Jake and Elwood started more than 30 years ago: the destruction of the Dixie Square Mall.
The mall has been vacant since John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd ra...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 weeks 6 days ago.
* Here we go…
Gov. Pat Quinn’s office unveiled a plan Thursday to lay off more than 550 state workers by closing a center for developmentally disabled residents in Jacksonville and a mental health facility in Chicago’s south suburbs.
Officials s...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 weeks 6 days ago.
* After straddling the fence earlier this week with a statement that was more than a bit obtuse, Congressman Mike Quigley has decided to take a stand against SOPA…
“I have decided to oppose the Stop Online Piracy Act and will continue to oppos...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 weeks 6 days ago.
* After straddling the fence earlier this week with a statement that was more than a bit obtuse, Congressman Mike Quigley has decided to take a stand against SOPA…
“I have decided to oppose the Stop Online Piracy Act and will continue to oppos...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 weeks 6 days ago.
* I get more than a few e-mails like this one every day, but I thought I’d share it with you to see what you think…
URGENT ALERT – FUNDING BADLY NEEDED TO CONTINUE COURT FIGHTS FOR YOUR RIGHTS
COOK COUNTY AND CHICAGO POLITICAL MACHINES HOPE ...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 weeks 6 days ago.
* A state legislator wants to change a particularly onerous Illinois law, which makes it a felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison to make an audio recording of an on-duty police officer…
With the constitutionality of Illinois’ eavesdrop...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 weeks 6 days ago.
* This AP lede is more than a bit misleading…
With four out of five students in Illinois community colleges failing to get a degree on time, Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon is calling for better math education in high schools and tying colleges’ funding...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 3 weeks 9 minutes ago.
* People who aren’t public employees really shouldn’t be participating in the public pension system. But they are…
Township Officials of Illinois is a private trade group, not a governmental agency, but its employees are eligible for pub...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 3 weeks 13 minutes ago.
* Yesterday saw an outpouring of opposition to the vile SOPA/PIPA legislation. Several members of the Illinois congressional delegation contacted me to say that they were withdrawing their support or announcing that they were opposed. And this movement ...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 3 weeks 17 hours ago.
* From the comptroller’s latest quarterly report…
One year after illinois raised individual and corporate income tax rates, the state remains in a precarious fiscal
position with persistent payment delays – and the situation is unlikely to s...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 3 weeks 18 hours ago.
* As you can tell by the black banner at the top of this page, today is a national day of protest over stupid attempts by Congress to dangerously meddle with the 1st Amendment and the Internet’s functioning. Click here for more info about the legis...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 3 weeks 18 hours ago.
* As you can tell by the black banner at the top of this page, today is a national day of protest over stupid attempts by Congress to dangerously meddle with the 1st Amendment and the Internet’s functioning. Click here for more info about the legis...
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