Illinois finances have been on shaky ground for the better part of the past decade. As a result, transit doomsdays, school funding referendums, and the threat of human service cuts emerge, like clockwork, every year. But the fact that the state has slipped so quickly from "the middle of the pack" in financial stability [...]
The Republican leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said the vote (to allow the health-care reform bill to the floor for debate) was anything but procedural — casting it as a referendum on the bill itself, which he said would raise taxes, cut Medicare and create a "massive and unsustainable [...]
Take a look at this headline from today's Daily Herald:
Reading that, you might guess that the west suburban town of about 150,000 passed a referendum opposing an income tax increase in Illinois. Or perhaps someone polled Naperville residents' on the various tax hike proposals being discussed at the state level. Well, [...]
All that power in the US Senate apparently has gone to Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin's head. No longer does the Democrat think "democratically." He rejects the idea that Illinoisans should have anything to say about imprisoning jihadist terrorists in Thomson, Illinois. On this morning's Fox News Chicago...
H/T Illinois Republican Party
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