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News from May 2017

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Riverton Village Board of Trustees met May 1.

By Lhalie Castillo | May 31, 2017

Riverton Village Board of Trustees met Monday, May 1.

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Sherman Public Library Board of Trustees met March 15.

By Lhalie Castillo | May 31, 2017

Sherman Public Library Board of Trustees met Wednesday, March 15.

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Sherman Public Library Board of Trustees met March 27.

By Lhalie Castillo | May 31, 2017

Sherman Public Library Board of Trustees met Monday, March 27.

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City of Springfield Committee of the Whole met May 30.

By Lhalie Castillo | May 31, 2017

City of Springfield Committee of the Whole met at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 30.

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City of Springfield City Council met May 2.

By Lhalie Castillo | May 31, 2017

City of Springfield City Council met Tuesday, May 2.

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Ball-Chatham Community Unified School District 5 Board of Education met May 24.

By Lhalie Castillo | May 31, 2017

Ball-Chatham Community Unified School District 5 Board of Education met at 5 p.m. Wednesday, May 24.

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Village of Illiopolis Board of Trustees met May 30.

By Lhalie Castillo | May 31, 2017

Village of Illiopolis Board of Trustees met at 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 30.

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Village of Shermon Public Hearing of the Zoning Board of Appeals met May 30.

By Lhalie Castillo | May 31, 2017

Village of Shermon Public Hearing of the Zoning Board of Appeals met at 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 30.

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City of Springfield Sangamon County Regional Planning Commission met May 25.

By Lhalie Castillo | May 31, 2017

City of Springfield Sangamon County Regional Planning Commission met at 9 a.m. Thursday, May 25.

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Sangamon County Finance Committee met May 9.

By Lhalie Castillo | May 31, 2017

Sangamon County Finance Committee met Tuesday, May 9.

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Sangamon County Board met May 9.

By Lhalie Castillo | May 31, 2017

Sangamon County Board met Tuesday, May 9.

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Sangamon County taxpayers would pay an extra $47M if Democrats’ tax hike becomes law

By LGIS Newsfeed | May 30, 2017

Sangamon County taxpayers would see a total of $47 million in state income tax increases if a tax hike measure passed by the Democrat-controlled Illinois State Senate becomes law.

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Hughes hopes clock runs out on Democrats' 'grand bargain'

By Cheyenne Dickerson | May 29, 2017

Even if a “grand bargain” b​​​​​udget is passed this legislative session, it “will not help the people of Illinois,” Patrick Hughes vowed on a recent broadcast of radio show "Illinois Rising."

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Hughes: Rauner's re-election bid could depend on veto abortion bill

By Cheyenne Dickerson | May 29, 2017

It'll be up to Gov. Bruce Rauner to decide the fate of House Bill 40 — legislation that allows state employee health benefits to cover the cost of abortions — and Patrick Hughes says if Rauner doesn’t veto, “he loses re-election.”

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Financial pro says Illinois following Puerto Rico's footsteps financially

By Cheyenne Dickerson | May 29, 2017

Illinois appears to be heading south in more ways than one, a financial expert said on a Chicago-based radio show recently.

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All play and no work -- yet legislators still draw paychecks, policy pro argues

By Caitlin Nordahl | May 28, 2017

Lawmakers have spent very little time in their seats, but at least they got to have play time, Austin Berg wrote on the Illinois Policy Institute website recently.

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Rauner says veto threat not going away until property tax relief shows up

By Caitlin Nordahl | May 28, 2017

Gov. Bruce Rauner took to social media recently to remind lawmakers what he has been saying for months: Expect a veto if any budget plan passes the General Assembly without taking property taxes into account.

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Bending to Madigan will further break the state, Rauner contends

By Caitlin Nordahl | May 28, 2017

Gov. Bruce Rauner fired back at Senate President John Cullerton and his recent column in State Journal-Register, urging him to take aim at Illinois' true nemesis.

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Minimum wage hike forecast as devastating blow to lllinois business, economy

By Caitlin Nordahl | May 28, 2017

Increasing Illinois' minimum wage to $15 an hour would be devastating to small businesses and cost the state 93,000 jobs, the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) Research Center forecast recently.

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Animal welfare bureau offering online license renewals

By Richard Jones | May 28, 2017

The Bureau of Animal Health and Welfare has launched a pilot program to open online license renewals to all of Illinois, according to a press release.