All Stories from May 12, 2013 (Change date)
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Klickna: Coalition plan is fair, effective, constitutionalMay 12, 2013 5:00 am - Two pending pension bills, one constitutional, Senate Bill 2404, the other unconstitutional, Senate Bill 1, could determine the direction Illinois will take in the comin...
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State must clean up its own act as wellMay 12, 2013 5:00 am - Thanks the Daily Herald and Reboot Illinois for hosting the April 24 Illinois pension forum; and thanks too for soliciting my reaction to the session. While interesting,...
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California wineries with celebrity connections flourishMay 12, 2013 5:00 am - HEALDSBURG, Calif. — Sometimes visitors to MacMurray Ranch, the 1,500-acre spread owned by movie and TV actor Fred MacMurray for a half-century, want to know: Where's th...
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Morrison: We must rethink old ideas about retirementMay 12, 2013 5:00 am - As a citizen of Illinois, I am tremendously grateful for the service provided by public sector employees. They have dedicated their careers to keeping us safe, educating...
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Boone says Drury Lane shows among his lastMay 12, 2013 5:00 am - Pat Boone is saying hello - and goodbye - to local audiences. The longtime entertainer, famous for his clean-cut image and white buck shoes, plays the Drury Lane Theat...
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Nekritz: Time to do the right thing over the easy thingMay 12, 2013 5:00 am - I want to begin by thanking the Daily Herald and Reboot Illinois for the opportunity to appear at their pension forum recently. The organizers presented well-crafted que...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald dead, but not forgottenMay 12, 2013 5:00 am - LOS ANGELES — Has-beens in Hollywood usually stay that way. Yet one writer who died there nearly forgotten 73 years ago had one of the most remarkable posthumous revival...
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Teachers also are taxpayersMay 12, 2013 5:00 am - Thank you for sponsoring the pension forum. My question (If teachers were moved to a 401(k)-style pension, what would happen if they retired in a 2007-2008 world) was as...
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Editorial: The time for pension reform is at handMay 12, 2013 5:00 am - We arrive here, in the middle of May, with momentum building for real public pension reform but still with it being anyone’s guess whether anything meaningful will happe...
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Problem creators now the problem solversMay 12, 2013 5:00 am - A bit of irony for readers of the Daily Herald: The same group of legislators who are in charge of fixing the pension systems are the same ones who helped destroy those ...