Illinois State Politics
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Pensions + legal fees = higher cost in endMay 19, 2011 12:00 am - Dear Senate Republican Leader Christine Radogno: The current rhetoric regarding public employee retirement plans is counterproductive and inaccurate. As a public employe...
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What is Tim Schmitz doing?May 18, 2011 1:00 am - Dear fellow citizens and beleaguered victims of certain Springfield representatives who do a sordid job of representation: I point out State Rep. Tim Schmitz, who was el...
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Palatine launches attack on unfunded mandatesMay 16, 2011 11:00 pm - Facing a financial crisis Palatine officials are likening to both a horror movie and a Tony Soprano mob shakedown, the village is doing more than just speaking out again...
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Grant for Vernon Hills library five years overdueMay 15, 2011 12:00 am - When state Sen. Terry Link and then-Rep. Kathy Ryg surprised Cook Memorial Public Library District leaders in 2006 by pledging $500,000 toward the construction of a new ...
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Mussman on wrong side of legislationMay 15, 2011 12:00 am - Recently, the Illinois House approved good legislation, HB 161, that would help eliminate fraud in Illinois’ Link card (food stamp) program. More specifically, the legis...
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Three potential laws that make senseMay 11, 2011 12:00 am - Often, our General Assembly does things that make us scratch our collective heads. We frequently find ourselves questioning the motives of our elected representatives. B...
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'Champion' legislators honored by Chamber of CommerceMay 08, 2011 11:00 pm - Illinois Chamber of Commerce officials announced Friday this year's recipients of their “Champions of Free Enterprise” Awards for the 2010-11 legislative session. To be ...
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DREAM Act bad for AmericaMay 08, 2011 2:00 am - State Sen. Tom Johnson’s vocal support of the plan to create scholarships for immigrants’ children should cause outrage in every single citizen. If this is his way of ma...
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Refuse to burden the helpless among usMay 08, 2011 12:00 am - Perhaps Abraham Lincoln said it best: “The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but cannot do, at all, o...
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Credit seminar in StreamwoodMay 07, 2011 12:00 am - State Rep. Fred Crespo, a Hoffman Estates Democrat, will be holding a seminar in conjunction with the state treasurer’s office to inform people of the importance of main...