With private money, pay for Pritzker top aides eclipses other states – INN
January 22, 2019
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Illinois GOP pushes Pritzker to support change to legislative mapmaking – INN
January 22, 2019
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Illinois eyeing California’s goal of 100 percent clean energy – Dispatch-Argus
January 22, 2019
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Comment: Wacko. Utterly impossible to entirely eliminate fossil fuels, and it would be outrageously expensive for consumers if it were.
Dorothy Brown removed from ballot in Chicago mayoral election – Chicago Sun-Times
January 22, 2019
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State’s bet on expanded gambling poses risks – News-Gazette
January 22, 2019
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Illinois not on track to tax online sales – IL Watchdog
January 22, 2019
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Illinois is not compliant with a U.S. Supreme Court decision outlining how states can go about requiring online retailers to collect sales taxes on products sold within their borders, according to an analysis by the Washington-based Tax Foundation.
Lawmaker wants townships with big bank accounts to return money to taxpayers – IL Watchdog
January 22, 2019
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A township in central Illinois that overtaxed residents for years is returning more than $735,000 to local property taxpayers, a rare rebate that one lawmaker said he wants to see happen in more of the state’s 1,400 townships.
Irrational exuberance in a post-Rauner Illinois
January 22, 2019
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Rauner’s exit might seem like a cause for celebration for many Illinoisans, but they’ll want to reconsider their exuberance. In their distaste for Rauner, they’ve forgotten how dysfunctional the state had become in the years before he took office.
“Pritzker gave state workers a raise as his first act, but he doesn’t know the cost, or won’t say it” – Ted with Tom Miller on WJPF
January 22, 2019
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Ted talked with Tom Miller of WJPF this week about Gov. Pritzker’s first act in office: he granted raises to state workers, worth hundreds of millions, before contract negotiations with AFSCME have even begun.