Illinois considers privacy law while the state violates privacy of thousands

12/13/2015

While the state moves to impose costly new requirements on private businesses in the name of privacy, the state is itself violating the privacy of thousands of Illinoisans.

TAGS: privacy

In Friedrichs case, First Amendment freedom must trump federalism

12/04/2015

The states are the laboratories of democracy, but their experiments can’t violate citizens’ constitutional rights to free speech and freedom of association under the First Amendment of the Constitution.

San Antonio admits anti-competitive food truck law is “not defensible”

11/25/2015

The law, which is similar to Chicago’s food-truck rules, was changed when San Antonio’s city attorney advised the city’s best bet was to change its rules as opposed to going to court.

TAGS: food trucks

Libertarians sue to lift Illinois’ ban on campaign giving by medical marijuana industry

By Mark Fitton

11/24/2015

Plaintiffs ask the court to find the campaign contribution ban unconstitutional and forbid its enforcement.

TAGS: campaign finance

Rauner ends tax breaks for companies that create no new jobs

11/12/2015

Gov. Bruce Rauner announced plans to restrict tax breaks for companies for retaining existing employees – putting an end to excessive tax credits that have cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.

Dues and don’ts: SEIU spent caregivers’ money for ‘representation’ on advertising, Christmas party

By Austin Berg

10/13/2015

SEIU spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on things clearly unrelated to the representation of union members.

TAGS: fair share, SEIU: Service Employees International Union

Why Chicago’s ‘Netflix tax’ is illegal

By Jeffrey Schwab

09/11/2015

Chicago’s 9 percent “Netflix tax” is illegal, and the Liberty Justice Center has sued the city to stop collecting it.

TAGS: Chicago, cloud tax, Hulu, Netflix, Rahm Emanuel, Spotify

BREAKING NEWS: Court allows state workers to challenge mandatory union fees

05/19/2015

Ruling issued late Tuesday allows three employees of Illinois state government to challenge so-called “fair share” fees

Want to fix Illinois’ economic development agency? Put it out to pasture

By Hilary Gowins

05/04/2015

For more than a decade, Illinois has been giving select businesses many millions of dollars more in tax credits than the law allows.

TAGS: Bruce Rauner, DCEO: Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, EDGE: Economic Development for a Growing Economy, jobs, public private partnership

LIVESTREAM: Three state employees join Rauner in legal challenge of ‘fair share’ union fees

03/23/2015

Live today at 2:30pm. Three state workers represented by the Liberty Justice Center have taken legal action to end the collection of fair share union dues in Illinois.

TAGS: litigation

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Illinois considers privacy law while the state violates privacy of thousands

In Friedrichs case, First Amendment freedom must trump federalism

San Antonio admits anti-competitive food truck law is “not defensible”

Libertarians sue to lift Illinois’ ban on campaign giving by medical marijuana industry

Rauner ends tax breaks for companies that create no new jobs

Dues and don’ts: SEIU spent caregivers’ money for ‘representation’ on advertising, Christmas party

Why Chicago’s ‘Netflix tax’ is illegal

BREAKING NEWS: Court allows state workers to challenge mandatory union fees

Want to fix Illinois’ economic development agency? Put it out to pasture

LIVESTREAM: Three state employees join Rauner in legal challenge of ‘fair share’ union fees

Pathway to a Profession: How Apprenticeships Could Reshape Illinois’ Beauty Service Industry

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Diana Graham

Process for unionizing non-state workers raises red flags

CBS Chicago: Illinois’ highest-paid superintendent receives $400K per year to oversee 1,200 students