A statewide universal preschool program appears ready for passage. However, the precise shape the program will take remains unarticulated. Those most effusive in their praise for “Preschool for All” have remained mum when asked to expand on the narrow campaign rhetoric that has thus far served as the sole information the administration has been willing […]
Collin Hitt
Collin Hitt is an associate at the Springfield-based Illinois Policy Institute, which promotes free
enterprise and limited government. More
information is available at the group’s Web site, www.illinoispolicyinstitute.org. Hitt can be
reached at collin@illinoispolicyinstitute.org.
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Losing proposition
With the proposal to introduce keno now shelved, the governor and the General Assembly must devise an alternative revenue source if they are to fund the governor’s capital-development plan. However, let’s not for a moment think that we’ve heard the last of expanding the state’s lottery operations. Trust that when the inevitable budget shortfalls reappear […]
