When it was revealed that a CPS school library was closing, due to staffing set backs, parents responded by creating a volunteer schedule for the students to still have access to books. However, CTU stepped in and said no...
December 31, 2016
To address the city’s worsening financial crises, Chicago politicians turned up the dial on their usual answer to budgetary woes: raising taxes.
Being a Chicago taxpayer got a lot pricier in 2016.
To make up for decades of financial...
Why a budget won’t fix Illinois
January 5, 2017
Pension costs alone now consume a quarter of the Illinois state budget.
Did you feel it?
As 2016 expired at midnight Dec. 31, so too did Illinois’ stopgap budget. That six-month spending plan pushed...
Illinois House Democrats re-elected state Rep. Mike Madigan to his longtime post as House Speaker Jan. 11.
Madigan is now set to become the longest-serving House speaker in modern U.S. history. By the end of his two-year term in 2019,...
Steve Cortes, Trump surrogate and National Hispanic Advisory Board Member, sits down with Dan Proft to explain how he went from Trump skeptic to Trump cheerleader and why Trump beat street expectations in terms of his percentage of the...
Democrats control the Illinois General Assembly and can easily pass their party’s legislation through the House and Senate – and can block any spending or economic reform Gov. Bruce Rauner proposes.
But the majority party holds another source of power that...
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Illinois lost population in the year ended June 30 and now is one of only two states to have fewer people than it did in the 2010 census.
Those are the latest population estimates released...
Illinois Policy 12/19/2016
Though Chicago already has the highest sales tax in the nation as well as massive property taxes, the Chicago City Council passed new hikes on parking fees in Midway and O’Hare airports.
‘Tis the season to score a...
Illinois Policy 12/5/2016
Real reform to help overtaxed Illinoisans – such as a property-tax cap and aggressive government consolidation – would be the gift that keeps giving the whole year round.
2016 was a tough year for the owners of 671...
Indiana Approves Income Tax Reduction
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May 14, 2013
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Joseph Henchman
Indiana Governor Mike Pence (R) last week signed into law the state’s 2014-15 two-year budget. The approved budget keeps spending increases below inflation and cuts the...
