While fellow Democrats Gov. Pat Quinn and Comptroller Dan Hynes were hurling
insults about the state budget at each other several days ago, I picked up the
phone and called Illinois Senate Majority
Moments after members of the Illinois State Board of Education voted to cut the
board’s budget by a net $180 million last week, an activist group called Voices for
Illinois Children sent out a
The budget — if you can call it that — which passed the General Assembly last week has as much as a $5 billion hole in
it, borrows over $7 billion from Wall Street and state ve
“You guys are going to have to come up with a new conspiracy theory,” Attorney General Lisa Madigan told Rockford Register-Star columnist Wally Haas last week about her decision to go for
As with any state legislative overtime session and possible government shutdown,
“Job One” right now is making sure somebody else gets the blame.
Last week, Gov. Pat Qu
Every Republican governor this state has had for the past 40 years has raised
taxes.
Republican legislators and most of their leaders have always been involved with
those tax hikes.
Usually when polls are taken about tax hikes, the respondents are “informed” about the benefits of raising more government money, whether it’s for education, public servic
It’s tough to find people who truly believe that Gov. Pat Quinn will ultimately
pull the trigger and give the go-ahead to draconian budget cuts in the coming
fiscal year in order to
Almost every reporter who covered the unveiling of new budget-cutting
recommendations by the governor’s Taxpayer Action Board last week claimed the “TAB” had found a half
The Democratic Party was given a clear mandate in the past two election cycles,
but they completely blew it last week.
The Senate has more than a three-fifths majority, the House i