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News from July 2017

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Sangamon County Finance Committee met July 11

By Corazon L. Gonzales | Jul 17, 2017

Sangamon County Finance Committee met 5 p.m. Tuesday, July 11.

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Sangamon County Board met July 11

By Corazon L. Gonzales | Jul 17, 2017

Sangamon County Board met 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 11.

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Sangamon County Jail Committee will meet July 18

By Corazon L. Gonzales | Jul 17, 2017

Sangamon County Jail Committee will meet at 12 p.m. Tuesday, July 18.

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Wheeler applauds pilot program delivering computers to schools

By Ruth de Jauregui | Jul 17, 2017

Rep. Barbara Wheeler (R-Crystal Lake) says the pilot program between the state and Computer Banc is flying high, according to a press release.

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Sangamon County Collective Bargaining Committee met July 10

By Corazon L. Gonzales | Jul 17, 2017

Sangamon County Collective Bargaining Committee met 5 p.m. Monday, July 10.

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Sangamon County Court Services Committee met July 6

By Corazon L. Gonzales | Jul 17, 2017

Sangamon County Court Services Committee met 5 p.m. Thursday, July 6.

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Democrats living in fiscal fantasy, Wirepoints founder says

By Hoang Tran | Jul 16, 2017

The recently passed state budget is little more than a fantasy to fix Illinois, Wirepoints founder Mark Glennon contends.

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Rauner seen as giving political ammunition to 2018 rivals

By Hoang Tran | Jul 16, 2017

Gov. Bruce Rauner has dug a hole it's going to be tough to climb out of before the 2018 elections, Patrick Hughes, co-founder of the Illinois Opportunity Project, said on the radio show "Illinois Rising" recently.

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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.

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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.

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Here are the 8 former employees of Woodside Township receiving the highest annual pension payouts

By Local Labs News Service | Jul 16, 2017

Here are the 8 former employees of Woodside Township receiving the highest annual pension payouts, according to 2015 Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund (IMRF) records:

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Here are the 49 former employees of the City of Lincoln receiving the highest annual pension payouts

By Local Labs News Service | Jul 16, 2017

Here are the 49 former employees of the City of Lincoln receiving the highest annual pension payouts, according to 2015 Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund (IMRF) records:

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Who are the Village of Rochester's highest-paid employees?

By Local Labs News Service | Jul 16, 2017

Here are the 18 highest-paid employees of the Village of Rochester, according to 2015 Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund (IMRF) records:

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New Berlin Junior High School post test results

By Local Labs News Service | Jul 16, 2017

New Berlin Junior High School's 2016 standardized test scores decreased compared to scores from 2015, according to a report recently released by the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE).

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GOP denounces House passage of 'radical' abortion bill

By Caitlin Nordahl | Jul 16, 2017

House Democrats would rather spend $60 million to pay for abortions than work toward fixing the financial troubles of Illinoisans, Demetra Demonte, national committeewoman for the lllinois Republican Party, said recently, according to a press release.

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Linking higher income taxes with lower property taxes described as wishful thinking

By Justin Stoltzfus | Jul 15, 2017

If Illinoisans can live with higher income taxes for five years, they might in return get bailed out from the ever-growing onus of high property taxes, Sen. Bill Brady (R-Bloomington) said recently, according to the news site Politico.

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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.

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Chicago schools again get huge funding preference, GOP alleges

By Caitlin Nordahl | Jul 15, 2017

Education funding legislation was hijacked in the final days of the spring session to provide million of dollars in extra spending to Chicago Public Schools (CPS), the Illinois Republican Party argued in a press release recently.

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Law firm offers insight into workers' comp, ADA overlap

By Caitlin Nordahl | Jul 15, 2017

The intersection between state workers’ compensation laws and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) can be complicated, particularly when workers’ compensation complainants seek high settlements based on their inability to return to work, according to a recent article from Keefe, Campbell, Biery & Associates (KCB&A).

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Non-profit argues doling out more dollars to local governments is money poorly spent

By Mia Sims | Jul 15, 2017

A bill that would divert an ever-increasing amount of state tax dollars each year to local governments passed the House in early March but remains in the Senate as of the summer legislative break.