Articles filed under State Legislature
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Link should heed warning from 'boss'Sep 05, 2008 11:00 pm - In regard to Lake County leader Terry Link and former party Vice Chairman Pete Couvall, let's refer to Sen. Barack Obama's quote to the Chicago Tribune on April 3, 2007,...
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Remembering how important labor isAug 31, 2008 11:00 pm - On Labor Day, we remember the many positive achievements of organized labor in the United States. The labor movement is responsible for America's strong middle class by ...
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Elect Prochno to clean things upAug 24, 2008 11:00 pm - Illinois government has become synonymous with political corruption. Our governor has become an expert at pay-to-play politics and continues to increase his campaign don...
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Murphy no help to young adults who need health insuranceAug 24, 2008 11:00 pm - Once again, Matt Murphy doesn't get it. Even as families with young adults in the "rich" Northwest suburbs are being hit with higher property taxes, higher fuel costs, h...
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Link bad for Lake economy, residentsAug 22, 2008 11:00 pm - I'm concerned for the citizens of Lake County. Our local economy is stagnant, and what's worse is that our county is resting in the hands of people who have their own in...
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Governor should sign ethics bill nowAug 16, 2008 11:00 pm - The Illinois House of Representatives and State Senate passed HB 824, which bars state officials from accepting campaign donations from any business which has state cont...
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Murphy exploits county sales taxAug 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Gov. Blagojevich is starting to rub off on my State Sen. Matt Murphy. He thinks that legislating via press conference and press releases is going to actually repeal the...
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State reps, rivals spar over pay raise optionsAug 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Democratic state Reps. Fred Crespo of Hoffman Estates and Paul Froehlich of Schaumburg, eager to reject a scheduled pay raise for Illinois legislators, say they'll donat...
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Politician denies anti-tax proposal is election relatedAug 08, 2008 11:00 pm - Sen. Matt Murphy won't admit his latest bill is already dead. But he concedes it's an uphill battle, trying to roll back the Cook County sales tax increase via a state l...
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Illinois District 30 needs Keith GrayAug 02, 2008 11:00 pm - Do most readers of the Lake County Daily Herald really know what their own representatives in the Illinois General Assembly have been up to in Springfield doing the peop...