A true statesman in the Wisconsin Assembly had to intervene: “There’s no reason to have businesses leaving Wisconsin, especially breweries. This is what we do.”

Federal regulators have warned Illinois to resume paying companies that wrench leaky fuel tanks from the ground or be forced to tell gas station operators they have to pay.

1,500 undocumented students in Illinois are one step closer to receiving financial aid from the University today after the Illinois General Assembly Higher Education Committee voted to present a bill on the Senate floor.

Great work by Levine cutting costs at the Illinois State Board of Investments.

Since the state’s recession bottom, Illinois has regained less than 5 percent of its manufacturing jobs — the worst rate of recovery among all neighboring states. Meanwhile, Michigan has roared back to pass Illinois for total manufacturing jobs. Indiana is outpacing Illinois in creating manufacturing jobs, even with a workforce half the size of Illinois’.

Consolidation promises to cuts costs, improve investment returns but public safety retirement funds prefer local control and clout, a BGA Rescuing Illinois report finds.

Yesterday, the State of Illinois released its annual financial report for fiscal 2015 (June). “We have a good news, bad news story. The good news is the bad news is now news. The bad news is how bad the good news is, reflecting the consequences of decades of false reporting.”

Illinois generates more zero-emissions electricity than any other state, mostly from nukes, which are in their prime and could stay operating for decades. Unfortunately, the State is at risk of losing some of its nuclear plants because all low-carbon energy is not supported in the fight against climate change, only renewables are. Comment: We have an open mind here on much of climate science, and Hansen is a fraud, but he is right about this.

Comment: With no Chapter 9 bankruptcy authorization for Puerto Rico, we will now start seeing how a disorderly insolvency works. It will be a mess, and Illinois municipalities should be watching.

“The Legislature conveniently exempted itself from the Public Access Bureau’s appeal process that so many other units of government are subject to. Talk about hypocrisy!”