Mike Riopell
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Will Walker election affect pension debate?Jun 07, 2012 5:30 am - SPRINGFIELD — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s survival of a recall election is seen by some as a national referendum on the power of public employee unions he fought, yet ...
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Quinn still targeting Aurora facility closureJun 06, 2012 1:17 pm - SPRINGFIELD — Gov. Pat Quinn plans to move forward with closing the Fox Valley Adult Transition Center in Aurora at the end of August, even though lawmakers gave him the...
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Pension reform faces uncertain path forwardJun 03, 2012 7:00 am - SPRINGFIELD — In April, Gov. Pat Quinn stepped before cameras and reporters to put nearly all of his political pull behind two enormous efforts to try to fix the state's...
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Quinn: Pension reform push continuesJun 01, 2012 9:12 am - SPRINGFIELD — A day after Illinois lawmakers left town without finishing Gov. Pat Quinn’s highly sought-after pension cutbacks, the Democrat said he’ll call top lawmaker...
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Pension reform now left to possible summer debateMay 31, 2012 8:00 am - SPRINGFIELD — After years of talks, months of negotiations and days of intense partisan fighting, an effort to try to repair the state's deeply troubled public pension s...
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Pension shift to local schools to be removed from planMay 30, 2012 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD — A controversial proposal to shift millions of dollars in teacher retirement costs to suburban school districts will be pulled from pension reform legislati...
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Local schools the sticking point in pension debateMay 29, 2012 9:00 am - SPRINGFIELD — After months of discussion and speculation, a written plan emerged Tuesday to transfer millions of dollars in retirement costs to suburban schools and cut ...
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Pension reform plan coming togetherMay 28, 2012 7:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - The details of the pension reform proposal Illinois lawmakers will be presented with in the coming days are crystallizing, but what remains unclear is whet...
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Budget showdown looming in SpringfieldMay 26, 2012 4:47 pm - SPRINGFIELD — State lawmakers foreshadowed a showdown over the Illinois budget Saturday, starting to advance a schools spending plan that would cut schools more deeply t...
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Senate targets former Oak Brook chief’s pensionMay 26, 2012 4:47 pm - SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois Senate has approved legislation that would strike down a pension-sweetening law that boosted former Oak Brook police chief Thomas Sheahan’s pe...