Comment: Cat fight. You don’t often see one paper going after the other as harshly as here. The subject Tribune editorial is linked here.

Comment: See the Sun-Times’ very harsh response to this linked here.

According to the data Pappas shared at a City Club speech today, 130 of the county’s 549 taxing districts—schools, villages, cities and the like—have more retirees drawing benefits than current workers putting money in. And the ratio of workers to retirees is headed in the wrong direction.

Comment: Actually, that’s just one of many reasons.

Some of the biggest names in travel and lodging have been added to the large and growing list of employers in Chicago and elsewhere in Illinois targeted by class action lawsuits accusing them of not securing their workers’ written authorization before scanning their fingerprints into their company databases to more accurately log and track their employees’ work hours.

A nice, plain-English summary.

State Sen. Jason Barickman, R-Bloomington: “I think fiscal conservatives need to be in this debate,” Barickman said Tuesday. “It is inevitable that this is going to happen. Our opportunity is either to sit on the sidelines and watch how it happens, and not influence the outcome or put ourselves at the negotiating table.”

As long as the state refuses to offer homeowners any real property tax protection, and fails to empower cities like Normal to truly reform their own pensions, Normal residents should expect more tax hikes.

Estimates suggest that a repeal of the prevailing wage could save taxpayers an average of 10 percent on public construction projects across Illinois.

How licensing puts the hurt on lower-income Illinoisans, entrepreneurs

Illinois is now in year four of fairly low farm income and no turnaround is in sight, according to Farm Bureau Chief Economist Mike Doherty. Doherty said this is mainly due to low prices tied to increases in supply from competitors in Argentina and Brazil

The Illinois’ attorney general is investigating a transportation company that promised patrons “you won’t feel like you’re in China” on its buses.