Working on A Dream
Chicago’s West Side is a war zone. But the casualties can’t be measured by body counts alone.
Dreams die, too, and the American Dream has all but vanished in neighborhoods such as North Lawndale, Garfield Park and...
ALLOWING MUNICIPAL BANKRUPTCY MUST BE PRIORITY FOR ILLINOIS
MARK GLENNON June 7, 2016
OPINION
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnGExrTcRcs
In the dozens of articles you probably read in the last few months about our fiscal crisis, what’s the universal omission? A solution.
No analyst, officeholder or commentator has...
Regularly scheduled spring session ended on May 31st, but the State of Illinois remains in an unprecedented financial situation. We return to Springfield this Wednesday.
Still No Budget
As I’m sure you know by now Speaker Madigan attempted...
A Weekend in Chicago: Where Gunfire Is a Terrifying Norm
JUNE 4, 2016
Three days, 64 people shot, six of them dead: Memorial Day on the streets, and the violence that has engulfed families and neighborhoods.
Videos by Craig Duff, Todd Heisler...
Vague Promises of Debt Relief for Greece
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD MAY 30, 2016 NY Times
The Greek Parliament building last week. CreditAngelos Tzortzinis/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
European leaders congratulated themselves last week for reaching an agreement to provide more loans to...
On a single day in 2011, Illinois lawmakers introduced and passed the largest tax hike in modern state history in a matter of hours.
And on May 25, 2016, House Democrats introduced and passed a 500-page budget billin 90 minutes.
Something...
March 24, 2016
Top 20 State Legislator Pension Recipients
By Mark Wachtler
March 24, 2016. Springfield. (ONN) Illinois and Chicago may have the most bankrupt and unfunded pension funds in the country. But for members of the elite establishment - former State...
The state’s largest government-worker union has no strike fund, but refuses to agree to a contract taxpayers can afford.
From Illinois Policy 5/29/2016
The union-backed arbitration bill failed, but Illinois’ largest government-worker union is still without a contract.
Now that House Bill...
Pissing in the wind: Here’s what happens when tyranny of the minority overtakes common sense
Posted on May 27, 2016 by Sam RolleyViews: 932
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The President of the United States weighed in on who uses the bathroom where, he said...
WHY THESE ILLINOIS HOUSE DEMOCRATS VOTED AGAINST MADIGAN’S BUDGET BILL
KEVIN HOFFMAN
REBOOT STAFF
MAY 26, 2016 2467 1
During a rancorous vote Wednesday night, Illinois House Democrats passed Speaker Michael Madigan’s $7.2 billion out-of-balance budget plan.
The 63-53-1 vote came amid vehement protest from...
