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Illinois pays the highest “borrowing penalty” in the nation thanks to corruption and malgovernance. The state will pay some $2.6 billion in interest penalties on its $30.6 billion in general debt. That’s just wasted money.
We’d be so much better off if political reporters stuck to politics, which most of them understand, and stayed away from fiscal policy, which they don’t.
One thing is clear from yesterday’s Senate hearing: There is both considerable interest and concern about Gov. Rauner’s Discovery Partners Institute outside Chicago.
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No mention of Chicago in this article, but “This is basically Amazon’s way of gathering a lot of information for free in a short amount of time and understanding the incentives those localities are willing to offer,” says Kasia Tarczynska, who curates the data on Amazon for Good Jobs First.
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