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Media blasts Dem-controlled assembly: $111 for 30 minutes?

By Caitlin Nordahl | Jun 28, 2017

The state and national press picked apart the Democratically controlled Illinois House and Senate for returning to Springfield for a special session that lasted approximately a half hour on Day 1, according to the lllinois Republican Party.

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Policy pro urges Rauner to stick to his guns on reforms

By Caitlin Nordahl | Jun 27, 2017

Democrats in the General Assembly have accused Gov. Bruce Rauner of trying to push nonbudgetary reforms through in this year’s budget negotiations, but the Illinois Policy Institute’s Michael Lucci contends that Rauner’s cost-cutting measures are a necessary part of any successful budget.

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Policy expert describes seven major faults in GOP budget proposal

By Caitlin Nordahl | Jun 26, 2017

"Illinoisans don’t need a compromise deal that will only offer more of the same failures" -- so says Craig Lesner, the budget and tax research director of the Illinois Policy Institute, in describing the recently put forward Republican budget plan.

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Illinois held down by economic, moral decay, analyst says

By Caitlin Nordahl | Jun 25, 2017

While every state around it continues to grow in population and prosperity, Illinois keeps shrinking under the strain of higher taxes and more regulations, Michael Lucci, vice president of policy for the Illinois Policy Institute, said in an article on the institute's website.

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Special legislative session costs Illinoisans at least $40,000 a day

By Caitlin Nordahl | Jun 25, 2017

The current 10-day special session of the General Assembly stands to cost Illinoisans up to $500,000, according to an analysis by the Better Government Association (BGA).

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IIlinois sinks to near-junk bond status in eyes of two agencies

By Caitlin Nordahl | Jun 25, 2017

One day after the General Assembly ended its spring legislative session, lllinois sank to new depths, as two of the three major U.S. credit rating agencies dropped the state to one step above "junk" bond status, the Illinois Policy Institute reported.

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Illinoisans plead for property tax relief in Rauner ad

By Caitlin Nordahl | Jun 25, 2017

With a week left in the special legislative session, Gov. Bruce Rauner has released a new ad highlighting people hurt by sky-high property taxes and urging reform.

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Tax hike without reform described as potential repeat of last state fiasco

By Caitlin Nordahl | Jun 19, 2017

Those who do not remember where a lack of reform leads seem compelled to raise taxes, Michael Lucci argued recently.

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UIS called textbook example of where to put blame for higher ed crisis

By Caitlin Nordahl | Jun 18, 2017

The Illinois Policy Institute says the state’s higher education crisis is manifesting at the University of Illinois at Springfield (UIS) in the form of significant increases to tuition, which more than doubled over the course of a decade.

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State road work will hit dead end without budget, group warns

By Caitlin Nordahl | Jun 18, 2017

All state transportation work will be at risk if legislators do not pass a budget in the next few weeks, according to the Illinois Road and Transportation Builders Association’s (IRTBA) latest weekly newsletter.

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Overtaxed Illinoisans also seeing nation's smallest growth in personal income

By Caitlin Nordahl | Jun 13, 2017

Illinois’ average personal income growth since the Great Recession is tied with Nevada for the worst in the country, according to data from Pew Charitable Trusts published on the Illinois Policy Institute website recently.

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Southern, Central Illinois benefit from $7.23 million in block grants

By Caitlin Nordahl | Jun 11, 2017

Nineteen Illinois communities will receive a total of $7.23 million in funding to improve, rehabilitate and retrofit residential properties, according to the Illinois Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity (DCEO).

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Butler serves up a warm welcome to state volleyball champs

By Caitlin Nordahl | Jun 11, 2017

The Hartsburg-Emden seventh- and eighth-grade volleyball teams took it to the house -- and then got taken to the House.

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Butler calls for first constitutional convention in 50 years

By Caitlin Nordahl | Jun 11, 2017

Rep. Tim Butler (R-Springfield) believes it's time to ask Illinoisans if they want the state to hold its first constitutional convention in five decades.

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Chicago attorney sees lots of 'hooey,' little hope in General Assembly

By Caitlin Nordahl | Jun 11, 2017

The General Assembly’s spring session was inconsequential in terms of legislation and disastrous in terms of the state’s mounting debt, according to a statement from Chicago attorney Eugene Keefe.

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Public Health panel offering awards for local volunteer work

By Caitlin Nordahl | Jun 7, 2017

The Serve Illinois Commission is encouraging communities to apply for Governor’s Hometown Awards, a new program to recognize local projects.

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Wojcicki Jimenez stresses need for bipartisan budget compromise

By Caitlin Nordahl | Jun 7, 2017

A bipartisan effort is the only way to get a budget passed before the end of the special session on June 30, Rep. Sara Wojcicki Jimenez (R-Leland Grove) said in a press release.

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Lawmakers accused of catering to Chicago schools, ignoring downstate

By Caitlin Nordahl | Jun 7, 2017

The Daily Herald accused the General Assembly of favoring Chicago's schools at the expense of all others in lllinois in a recent editorial.

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General Assembly gives itself another month to reach budget accord

By Caitlin Nordahl | Jun 5, 2017

The General Assembly will meet in a continuous session through June to try to put a budget in place for the new fiscal year, which begins on July 1.

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Rauner ad describes Democrats' 'stunning failure' on budget

By Caitlin Nordahl | Jun 4, 2017

Reiterating his call for a property tax freeze, Gov. Bruce Rauner released a new digital ad in which he attacks Democrats for refusing to cut spending or work toward reform, according to the Illinois Republican Party.