At a time when everything coming out of the Illinois Senate seems to involve multibillion-dollar tax hikes, one senator is finally offering real reform for the state’s biggest fiscal crisis: its pension system.
State Sen. Dale Righter, R-Mattoon, has sponsored...
MASSACRE OF COPS IN BATON ROUGE
If you didn’t believe Obama wanted a race war before, you better believe it now.
July 18, 2016
Matthew Vadum Frontpage Magazine
CLEVELAND -- In what is becoming a depressingly regular occurrence in the Obama era, police...
News From
State Representative Mark Batinick
For Immediate Release Contact: Debbie Kraulidis
April 25, 2017 (815) 254-0000
How to close $2B of the 2018 budget shortfall
Anyone following the Illinois budget impasse knows that our pile of unpaid bills is growing;...
From Illinois Policy April 2017
Illinois lawmakers peddle fake property tax reform
House Bill 156 does nothing to stop the overly burdensome growth in Illinois property tax bills.
Despite being sold as property tax “relief,” new legislation in Springfield would only shift...
EXCLUSIVE: Clinton Foundation Probes May Be Moving Forward In Three Cities
Richard Pollock 8/12/2016Joint investigations by the FBI and various U.S. Attorneys of Clinton Foundation activities are most likely underway in Little Rock, Arkansas, Washington, D.C. and New York, according...
It’s A Beautiful Day To Stop A Massive Tax Hike
Watch now.http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHnfHngNUT0
In his state address, Rauner calls for compromise. But is that just a euphemism for another "c" word--capitulation? The compromise is a massive tax hike that the Wall Street...
There was an offender convicted of a crime against a person released on parole near Illinois zip code 60544 during 2018, according to Illinois Department of Corrections data obtained by the Will County Gazette. Read more..
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...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSx02PzS00I
Chicago FOP President: Police Facing Unprecedented Level of Disrespect
On this edition of Against The Current, Dan Proft has a riveting conversation with Dean Angelo, Sr., President of Chicago Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7.
Angelo says the claim of systemic...
State of the State
Despite the current political climate, Governor Rauner gave an upbeat State of the State to the entire Illinois General Assembly last week. In his third annual State of the State Address, he indicated that he...
