Marty Hobe
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Bill would end driver's license forfeiture after traffic stopsApr 02, 2014 1:00 am - Getting pulled over for rolling through a stop sign or speeding in Illinois often means temporary loss of your driver's license, leaving you without the identification y...
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State Senate OKs committee to woo Big TenApr 01, 2014 1:01 am - Two suburban lawmakers' plans to try to get another Illinois university into the Big Ten Conference was approved by the Illinois Senate Tuesday. State Sen. Matt Murphy, ...
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Illinois House gets millionaire tax plan movingMar 27, 2014 1:01 am - SPRINGFIELD - Illinois lawmakers chose to advance an additional income tax on millionaires over a broader shift of taxes toward the wealthy Thursday, setting the tone fo...
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Lawmaker plans to expand Rosemont cigarette taxMar 26, 2014 1:00 am - A plan to let Rosemont and three other Illinois cities apply their local cigarette taxes to cigars and other forms of tobacco won initial approval in the state Senate We...
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Current retirees out of bill to end 13th pension paymentMar 25, 2014 1:01 am - SPRINGFIELD - A proposal to eliminate a controversial 13th annual pension payment for local government retirees was approved by a House committee Tuesday but only if cur...
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Lawmakers want another Big Ten university in IllinoisMar 21, 2014 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Two suburban Republicans are pushing to make another Illinois university a Big Ten Conference school in hopes of keeping students from traveling out of sta...
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GOP candidates prevail despite gay marriage voteMar 19, 2014 1:00 am - Suburban Republican lawmakers who voted in support of same-sex marriage were not penalized by conservative voters in their primary elections Tuesday. State Reps. Tom Cro...
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Weather affecting primary election campaignsMar 17, 2014 5:00 am - The awful winter weather that dogged the suburbs for months also made the campaign season for local candidates harder than usual as volunteers have had to hammer yard si...
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If term limits were in Springfield, a third of legislators would have to leaveMar 08, 2014 7:00 am - Republican Bruce Rauner's push to limit state lawmakers' careers at the Illinois Capitol to eight years would have disqualified more than a third of those serving now if...
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Rate of uninsured children drops, but demographic disparity growsMar 06, 2014 12:01 am - The number of children who have health insurance coverage was rising before the new federal health care law took effect this year, and the suburbs saw some of the highes...