by Wesley Fox Governor Quinn recently announced a new $7 million “business investment package” that will keep U.S. Cellular’s headquarters in Illinois.  The package is part of the state’s Economic Development for a Growing Economy Tax Credit Program (EDGE).  The program provides tax credits to companies that promise to make capital investments within the state and create 25 new...

“The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and throw the bad ones away.” So said Linus Pauling, the two-time Nobel Prize winner for chemistry. A lot of ideas have been suggested to solve Illinois’s budget shortfall, and it’s time to separate the good from the bad. According to the National...