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By Kimberly Pohl The director of Americans for Prosperity’s state chapter said Thursday that he doesn’t often quote Pat Quinn in a positive light, but he’ll gladly relay the governor’s calculation of what the legislature’s inaction is costing Illinois taxpayers. “It costs our state $12.6 million a day every day that we don’t reform pensions,...
John Tillman, state Rep. Greg Harris and John Bouman join Eddie Arruza on Chicago Tonight to discuss Gov. Pat Quinn’s $2.7 billion in Medicaid cuts after a committee he appointed falls short of a plan.
Should a government bureaucrat have the power to arbitrarily decide who’s allowed to start a business and who isn’t? Most readers of this website — and most Americans — have a ready answer to that question: No. But in many cities and states, government officials have the power to do just that. Consider the case...
By Joseph Ruzich Downers Grove gets a failing grade when it comes to its lack of government transparency on its Web site, according to the Illinois Policy Institute, a nonpartisan research organization. The organization will give the village six weeks to address the matter before evaluating the Web site again, said Brian Costin, director of...
By KENNETH LOWE DECATUR – The first sentence of Brian Costin’s summary of the Illinois budget situation says it all: “Illinois is in rough shape.” Costin, a spokesman for the Illinois Policy Institute – a not-for-profit think tank dedicated to finding cost-cutting measures in government – spoke Tuesday evening before concerned citizens and members of...