Illinois approves $1.5B transit package, funding for long-delayed projects – Center Square

“The only way they are able to get support for significant funding proposals like this is by hanging their wish list items on the bill in exchange for votes,” state Sen. Don DeWitte said. “There’s rail service to Moline, improvements to Willard Airport, subsidies for Springfield’s airport service, electric buses, bike paths—everyone is hanging ornaments on the tree.”

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Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560: Why We Need to “Relentlessly” Make the Blue State-Red State Case

Glennon raised the stakes of the moment in broader civilizational terms: “This election in Illinois is not about the usual pedestrian issues… it’s about nothing less than whether Western civilization survives in our democratic republic of America because [the left], just on the open border alone, will destroy the country, and now they’re bringing in the jihadists, frankly, into the party.” Audio and summary linked here.Audio and summary linked here.

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