Sunday, December 4, 2011
It's always good to be caught up on state politics. Here's an easy guide to what happened this week.
Editor's Note: This article was created by aggregating news articles from Illinois Statehouse News that were written by various Illinois Statehouse News reporters. Congress could help states collect online sales taxes Illinoisans who buy the latest best-selling book as a Christmas gift on Amazon.com will pay $12.99. Buy the same book at a local bookstore and they’ll pay an extra 81 cents. The bookstore isn’t charging more. It’s collecting Illinois’ 6.25 percent sales tax, which online retailers without a physical presence in the state don’t have to collect. This tax loophole is costing the cash-strapped state $170 million every year, according to an estimate from the Illinois Department of Revenue. A 1992 U.S. Supreme Court ruling said …
Sunday, November 13, 2011
It's always good to be caught up on state politics. Here's an easy guide to what happened this week.
Editor's Note: This article was created by aggregating news articles from Illinois Statehouse News that were written by various Illinois Statehouse News reporters. New plan forms to keep state facilities open, for now Notices have gone out to nearly 200 Tinley Park Mental Health Center employees letting them know that they will be laid off on Dec. 3 as their facilities prepares to close under orders from Gov. Pat Quinn. But Thursday morning a legislative commission voted against Quinn’s move to close the state psychiatric center. The Legislature’s Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability, or COGFA, also voted against closing the Logan Correctional Center in Lincoln and the Jacksonville Developmental Centerfacility Thursday…
Sunday, November 6, 2011
It's always good to be caught up on state politics. Here's an easy guide to what happened this week.
Editor's Note: This article was created by aggregating news articles from Illinois Statehouse News that were written by various Illinois Statehouse News reporters. Saving jobs focus of brewing Illinois tax deal Illinois lawmakers have the weekend to review the framework of a tax incentive package that tries to balance help for a handful of big companies in the state with broad relief for small and family businesses. Gov. Pat Quinn and the four legislative leaders Friday agreed on a deal, which lawmakers say they hope will keep the CME Group and Sears from leaving the state. Details of the tax incentive package were first reported by Rich Miller on his nonpartisan political blog Capitol Fax, and include a proposal to "decouple Illinois" …
Sunday, September 25, 2011
It's always good to be caught up on state politics. Here's an easy guide to what happened this week.
Editor's Note: This article was created by aggregating news articles from Illinois Statehouse News that were written by various Illinois Statehouse News reporters. Survey: Illinois third worst state for business A new survey backs up the belief that Illinois is not a business friendly state. Development Counsellors International, or DCI, a New York-based marketing firm, Monday released a survey of 322 company executives who ranked the 50 states as either good or bad for business. Illinois ranked as the third worst state in the country, behind California and New York in bad business climates. The executives who participated in the survey said the bottom three states earned their rankings because of “taxes” and “too much regulation.” But …
Sunday, September 11, 2011
It's easy to make decisions in Springfield when you don't think about the fallout of your actions.
Sunday, August 28, 2011
It's always good to be caught up on state politics. Here's an easy guide to what happened this week.
Editor's Note: This article was created by aggregating news articles from Illinois Statehouse News that were written by various Illinois Statehouse News reporters. Illinois: Job picture worsening It’s clear that finding or keeping a job in Illinois is getting tougher, but it is much less clear as to why. Illinois’ July unemployment numbers show that the state is bleeding jobs. The state’s unemployment rate jumped from 9.1 percent in June to 9.5 percent, with Illinois losing 24,900 jobs. “The question is why, and that’s something that we’re trying to answer,” said Greg Rivara, spokesman for the Illinois Department of Employment Security. Illinois’ unemployment rate has been higher. In October 2010, the jobless rate reached 9.6 percent.Gov. …
Sunday, August 14, 2011
It's always good to be caught up on state politics. Here's an easy guide to what happened this week.
Editor's Note: This article was created by aggregating news articles from Illinois Statehouse News that were written by various Illinois Statehouse News reporters. New political map means new faces in GA Every legislator in Illinois has to run in a new district in 2012, causing some to ask this question: Is it worth it? Once a decade, the political landscape shifts, as the legislative districts are redrawn to represent population changes in the census figures. Voters have more than 14 months until they will decide the fate of 177 state lawmakers, but some legislators are taking their political futures into their own hands. Some legislators have announced bids for reelection in a new district; others, like state Sen. Dave Koehler, D-Peoria…
Saturday, July 23, 2011
It's always good to be caught up on state politics. Here's an easy guide to what happened this week.
Editor's Note: This article was created by aggregating news articles from Illinois Statehouse News that were written by various Illinois Statehouse News reporters. GOP file lawsuit against new political map Republican legislative leaders in Illinois filed a lawsuit Wednesday attempting to prevent the recently passed redistricting map from taking effect. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois by Senate Republican Leader Christine Radogno of Lemont, Republican Assembly Leader Tom Cross of Oswego, and several black and Hispanic residents. The lawsuit focuses on blacks and Hispanics not being given adequate input into how the new map was crafted, making the new map askew of the federal Voting …
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Several new laws take effect this month. Here's a rundown of what you need to know.
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Tuesday, July 5, 2011
SPRINGFIELD — Illinois newest laws cover the spectrum from death to taxes to antifreeze. Illinois became the 16th state to abolish the death penalty, beginning Friday. Jeremy Schroeder, executive director of the Illinois Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, a grassroots organization that pushed for the abolition of the state's death penalty since 1976, said Gov. Pat Quinn, who signed the bill into law in March, ordered life sentences for anyone on death row, including defendants in a handful of death penalty cases statewide. "It's certainly kind of a sad waste of taxpayer money, knowing that those people aren't going to be placed on death row," Schroeder said. However, the law’s effective date likely will go unnoticed, he added. "…
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Villages aren't keen on a legislative proposal to help balance Illinois' budget by cutting revenue to municipalities.
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4:12 pm on Sunday, November 13, 2011
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