Politicians in Springfield celebrated Tax Day by introducing a rate schedule to accompany the constitutional amendment seeking to scrap our state's flat income tax and replace it with a graduated, or progressive, one. This legislation would likely result in...
COD public records destruction and the public trust
One year ago, on April 13, 2015, U.S. Attorney Zachary Fardon empaneled a grand jury and subpoenaed College of DuPage records relating to spending, personnel, reimbursement, and "emails sent or received by...
Hillary's Fear of Losing
Spurs More Outrageous Gun Control Lies
David A. Lombardo
I wish it had occurred to me from the very beginning of the presidential race to count the number of times Hillary Clinton lies about firearms and the Second...
Lockport Township citizens speak out at raucous annual meeting
Lockport Township resident Cindy Allison urged township officials to be more transparent during the annual town meeting Tuesday at the Lockport Township High School auditorium. (Susan DeMar Lafferty / Daily Southtown)
Susan...
BUDGET + TAX / Article
April 14, 2016
Illinois' 859 local school districts consume nearly two-thirds of the $27 billion in local property taxes collected across the state each year.
Illinois has nearly 7,000 units of local government. That’s the highest count...
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Shortly after budget meeting, Madigan delivers blistering speech against Rauner
Senate President John Cullerton drew applause Tuesday when he told an audience that all four legislative leaders and Gov. Bruce Rauner would meet later that afternoon to discuss the state...
WHERE DO ILLINOIS STUDENTS TAKE OUT THE MOST STUDENT LOANS?
EMILY OLSEN
REBOOT STAFF
APR 8, 2016
As high school seniors prepare to head off to college, student loans might be on their minds — and some Illinois colleges graduate students with...
Chicago Public Schools, or CPS, CEO Forrest Claypool is trying to guilt the state of Illinois into a massive bailout of the broke school district. To do this, he’s using divisive rhetoric, even implying that the state’s education funding system...
As many of you know, the Illinois General Assembly is currently considering HB3160 "The Lethal Violence Order of Protection Act." On the surface, a lot of folks might say, "Oh...it's a good idea to take guns away from wife...
16 Democrat AGs Begin Inquisition Against ‘Climate Change Disbelievers’
Hans von Spakovsky / @HvonSpakovsky / Cole Wintheiser / April 04, 2016
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman speaks alongside former Vice President Al Gore. Neither Gore nor the “AGs United for...
