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  • Illinios education officials want half the state's budget, Wirepoints warns

    From Prairie State Wire
    by Karen Kidd | Jan 31, 2019

    Illinois education officials are out to get half of the state's budget—and they just might—to the detriment of the state's taxpayers, according to an online Wirepoints newsletter issued earlier today.

  • IPI: FBI's secret Madigan recordings in affidavit reveal nothing new about speaker's operations

    From Prairie State Wire
    by Karen Kidd | Jan 29, 2019

    Illinois's powerful House Speaker Michael Madigan (D-Chicago), earlier today revealed to be a target in the same FBI investigation that led to an extortion indictment against a Chicago alderman, is not accused of anything new, a think tank reported.

  • Legislature overrides some Rauner vetoes, fails on others

    From Prairie State Wire
    by Karen Kidd | Dec 6, 2018

    Illinois's outgoing Republican governor saw a few of his vetoes overridden during the Fall Veto Session in Springfield and a few new laws have been passed, a QUAD city area lawmaker said in a summary recap released last week.

  • State facing huge debt for public-sector retiree health benefits, says Wirepoints

    From Prairie State Wire
    by Karen Kidd | Dec 5, 2018

    Illinois's "other debt disaster" is $73 billion in unfunded state retiree health insurance benefits and more than twice that amount owed over the next four decades, according to a special report issued this week by an online news outlet.

  • FY19 Budget: 'Not one penny should be spent on pork,' Ives says

    From Prairie State Wire
    by Karen Kidd | Sep 12, 2018

    Illinois Rep. Jeanne Ives (R-Wheaton) believes state lawmakers need to reject political pork spending that was hidden in the budget passed earlier this year.

  • Pro-economic liberty group launches campaign against soaring Illinois property taxes

    From Prairie State Wire
    by Karen Kidd | Sep 2, 2018

    Supporting a proposal to cut Illinois property taxes in half and a slate of political candidates who would help make that happen is part of Liberty Principles PAC's recently announced "Save Your Home" campaign.

  • Brady points to parallels between Pritzker, previous Democratic governors

    From Peoria Standard
    by Karen Kidd | Aug 30, 2018

    The ranking Illinois Senate Republican recently blasted Democratic gubernatorial candidate J.B. Pritzker over his willingness to raise taxes.

  • People in prime working age are fleeing Illinois, think tank reports

    From Prairie State Wire
    by Karen Kidd | Jun 25, 2018

    Not only is Illinois' overall population in deep decline, the number of people in prime working age also is going down in the state, a Chicago-based Conservative think tank said in a recent report.

  • Better Government Association says Obama didn't say fathers in the home is a solution to gun violence -- but he did

    From Prairie State Wire
    by Karen Kidd | Feb 28, 2018

    Sometimes the fact-checker needs a good fact-checking.

  • Illinois Department on Aging adviser named outstanding employee of the year

    by Karen Kidd | Nov 16, 2017

    John Eckert, an Illinois Department on Aging senior policy adviser, was honored by the Illinois Interagency Committee for Employees with Disabilities as the 2017 Outstanding Employee of the Year

  • Budget described as no solution to Illinois insolvency

    by Karen Kidd | Jul 21, 2017

    While state lawmakers ended a two-year budget impasse, the measures adopted by the Illinois Legislature will not fix the state's fiscal mess, an analyst who co-wrote a paper that places the state 49th in long-run solvency told the Sangamon Sun.

  • Budget described as no solution to Illinois insolvency

    by Karen Kidd | Jul 17, 2017

    While state lawmakers ended a two-year budget impasse, the measures adopted by the Illinois Legislature will not fix the state's fiscal mess, an analyst who co-wrote a paper that places the state 49th in long-run solvency told the Sangamon Sun.

  • Rauner urged to drive his message home: 'I am on your side'

    by Karen Kidd | Jul 16, 2017

    Illinois' Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner needs to get on TV and in the public eye with a new narrative to win re-election next year, a conservative pundit said during a recent conservative radio talk show.

  • Legislators need to know how much measures will cost, pundit argues

    by Karen Kidd | Jul 16, 2017

    It's time for fiscal notes -- effectively the price tag on new legislation introduced into the General Assembly -- to be required in Illinois as a common sense way for lawmakers to understand how much new laws will cost taxpayers, a conservative pundit said during a recent radio talk show.

  • Linking Dem gubernatorial hopefuls to Madigan called strategic mistake

    by Karen Kidd | Jul 15, 2017

    GOP attempts to tie presumed Democrat 2018 gubernatorial front-runners J.B. Pritzker and Chris Kennedy to Illinois' powerful State House Speaker Mike Madigan and his high-tax programs will not help re-elect Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner, a conservative pundit said during a recent radio talk show.

  • Legislators called on to advocate for religious freedom

    by Karen Kidd | Jul 2, 2017

    Lawmakers need to be more sensitive to religious freedom and core Christian beliefs, a spokeswoman for the group that organized "Rock the Rotunda for Religious Freedom" in the Illinois Capitol rotunda on June 28 told the Sangamon Sun.

  • Economist says something's got to give: pensions or public schools

    by Karen Kidd | Jun 28, 2017

    Public sector employees and retirees might accept less than their constitutionally protected pensions if they understand it's them or public education, an economist said on a recent Chicago-based radio show.

  • Illinois case described as possible harbinger of union fate

    by Karen Kidd | Jun 27, 2017

    An Illinois case against the state's largest private-sector employee union that was recently appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court could bring sweeping change to the entire nation, the president of an organization helping to back the plaintiffs in the case said on a recent radio talk show.

  • Pennsylvania points way for Illinois pension fix, analyst says

    by Karen Kidd | Jun 26, 2017

    Illinois’ pension crisis is dire but will ultimately follow the precedent set by Pennsylvania, which has passed bipartisan legislation to deal with its own such crisis, a think tank analyst from that state said on a radio talk show recently.

  • GOP 'Compromise' budget decried as barely different from Democrat plan

    by Karen Kidd | Jun 26, 2017

    The GOP-proposed compromise budget plan that includes supposedly temporary tax increases, reforms and funding for education and social programs is a major disappointment, a producer of a Chicago-based conservative radio show said on a recent broadcast.

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