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The village of Lakewood is making encouraging reforms in a county where residents pay some of the highest property taxes in the nation.
Last week, Gov. Bruce Rauner used his veto authority to make big changes to a small clean-up bill that’s necessary to enact school funding reform.
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By Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon. The all-in result: The average total full-time-equivalent compensation, including benefits, for all job categories over all counties is $119,000.
If you’re going to claim that “socially responsible investing” is the right way to manage money, you might want to check the stock price before bragging about an example. Over $20 billion of shareholder value lost in an instant.
RTA Chair Kirk Dillard: Mass transit is the “economic equalizer” that levels the playing field for job seekers because our transit system gives applicants from all over the region a chance at a good job—or, even better, their dream job.
A rift has emerged as education leaders debate how aggressively to push lawmakers for state aid. At the heart of the issue is how to finance the state’s public universities following two years of almost non-existent state funding.
Bold thinkers, all.
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