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Rauner’s challenge to union fees is likely to win favor from the court’s five more conservative justices, all of them Republican appointees.
More homeowners in the Chicago area ended last year seriously underwater than in any other of the nation’s 10 largest cities, a report shows.
At the opposite end, Chicago had the second-smallest share of homeowners who own the majority of their home’s value, rather than the lender being the majority owner, according to the report, from Attom Data Solutions.
Comment: If he were really a moderate he’d have embraced JFK, but instead said this: “I’m a Kennedy Democrat, a Ted Kennedy Democrat,” he said, referring to the late Massachusetts senator. Uncle Teddy “had his finger” on all of the great progressive legislation that passed the Senate for decades, Kennedy said. However he did blast Dan Biss’ financial transaction tax as pandering.
The full report is linked here.
By Wirepoints’ Ted Dabrowski
A proposal to tie state spending to what taxpayers can afford is earning bipartisan support in Springfield.
For years, the state’s political elite has blamed ordinary Illinoisans for the state’s pension crisis. They say that the state – and by extension taxpayers – have failed to put enough money into government-worker pensions to keep them solvent. We’ve always been suspicious of that claim, and as it turns out, we were right to be.
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