Coalition kicks cronies in Springfield showdown over car-sharing

By Austin Berg

11/29/2018

The car-sharing victory is real business friendliness. And that means Illinoisans – whether or not they ever rent their car through an app – have cause for a little celebration.

TAGS: Bruce Rauner, carsharing, Getaround, Pam Althoff, Turo, veto

Lame ducks: What Illinois taxpayers should watch for in veto session

11/13/2018

Lawmakers, including 37 lame duck legislators, on Nov. 13 convened in Springfield for a veto session likely to feature political pensions and unfunded mandates.

TAGS: Bruce Rauner, fall veto, John Cullerton, Mike Madigan, municipal pensions, pensions, tobacco, Tobacco 21, veto

Rauner vetoes cursive writing mandate

09/25/2017

A bill that would have mandated cursive writing instruction in public elementary schools contained an unknown cost for school districts.

TAGS: Bruce Rauner, Chris Welch, education, veto

Rauner vetoes proposal for state-owned workers’ compensation insurance provider

By Brendan Bakala

08/22/2017

House Bill 2622 would create a state-run workers’ compensation insurance company, while failing to address the real problems with Illinois’ workers’ compensation system – the most expensive in the region.

TAGS: Bruce Rauner, veto, workers compensation

Illinois Senate passes Chicago bailout, overrides Rauner’s amendatory veto

By Austin Berg

08/13/2017

All Senate Democrats and one Republican voted to override Gov. Bruce Rauner and pass Senate Bill 1 in its original form, including a bailout for Chicago Public Schools.

TAGS: Andy Manar, Bruce Rauner, education, Illinois Senate, Senate Bill 1, veto

Rauner’s school funding changes are a win for 97 percent of Illinois districts

By Ted Dabrowski, John Klingner

08/12/2017

All Illinois school districts would receive more state money than last year.

TAGS: Bruce Rauner, CPS: Chicago Public Schools, education, Senate Bill 1, veto

Illinois’ gubernatorial veto procedures

By Matt Paprocki

08/02/2017

The governor can exercise the veto power in four different ways: a total veto, an amendatory veto, an item veto and a reduction veto.

TAGS: veto

Rauner issues amendatory veto of school finance bill

By Ted Dabrowski, John Klingner

08/01/2017

Gov. Bruce Rauner’s amendatory veto strips a Chicago bailout from Senate Bill 1, among other changes.

TAGS: Bruce Rauner, CPS: Chicago Public Schools, education, Senate Bill 1, veto

Moody’s clears the air: Illinois under review for possible downgrade to ‘junk’ status because of debt crisis

By Michael Lucci

07/05/2017

Though the Illinois House of Representatives appears close to overriding Gov. Bruce Rauner’s veto of a tax hike budget plan, and thereby ending Illinois’ more than two years without a full-year budget, Moody’s Investors Service has said it might still downgrade the state’s credit, largely due to Illinois’ unsustainable debt.

TAGS: Bruce Rauner, budget, credit rating, Illinois House of Representatives, Moody's Investor Service, veto

Madigan schedules July 6 vote to override Rauner’s income tax veto

07/05/2017

The House will need 71 “yes” votes to override Gov. Bruce Rauner’s veto of a permanent 32 percent income tax hike. The July 2 vote to pass the tax hike received 72 yeas.

TAGS: Bruce Rauner, budget, income tax, Mike Madigan, veto

Unlocking Opportunity: How Occupational Licensing Reform Would Promote Equitable Empowerment in Illinois

Illinois finds itself at a crossroads: will it empower minorities and poor people to unleash their potential, or will it perpetuate an inequitable status quo? For far too many Illinoisans, opportunity is unfairly and unnecessarily out of reach. Illinois ranks in the bottom ten among all states in social mobility and last among Midwest states...

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Unlocking Opportunity: How Occupational Licensing Reform Would Promote Equitable Empowerment in Illinois

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Process for unionizing non-state workers raises red flags

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