July 7, 2016
AFSCME is demanding pay hikes, better health care coverage and pension benefits over a new, four-year contract, which would cost state taxpayers $3 billion more than what the state is offering.
George works for the state of Illinois....
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House GOP to Promote Muslim Brotherhood, Gun Control Agenda this Week
In case you thought congressional Republicans would be infused...
Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan’s first political splash had nothing to do with policy. It wasn’t a blueprint for a better state. It wasn’t middle-class jobs growth. It wasn’t a successful welfare program.
It was cartography.
Political mapmaking is how Madigan...
Editors note: The Public sector employees get more money better benefits & pension never getting laid off at the expense of tax increases for all citizens. Private sector unions lay their people off, and if the pay gets too...
Gov. Bruce Rauner signed a stopgap budget and education funding measure into law late Thursday.
After weeks of struggling to come to an agreement, Republicans and Democrats have settled on Senate Bill 1810, which will fund government operations for the next six...
Term Limits: While Not A Panacea, Quinn & Rauner Advance Worthy Proposals (Part 1)
Written by John Biver
Former governor Pat Quinn agrees with Bruce Rauner, the guy who made him a former governor, when it comes to term limits. While...
Southland road projects could be halted by budget impasse
The $104 million widening of 159th Street through Homer Glen and Orland Park is already behind schedule, but is in danger of falling even further behind if the state legislature fails...
Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan’s insistence that Chicago Public Schools receive more than its fair share of state education funding is putting any stopgap budget deal at risk.
With the chance for a full-year 2017 budget deal all but dead,...
Supreme Court Decisions: Immigration and Affirmative Action Rulings Today
U.S. Supreme Court ruled on a presidential immigration order and a challenge to use of race in the University of Texas' admission process.
Shared from the Across America, US Patch
By Dennis Robaugh...
Editors note: As an American citizen I understand the failed concept of taking everyone's money and property and putting it into a bowl for everyone to share equally. I also get the concept of power created by the marriage...
