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Turnip Trucking: Have We Learned Nothing from the Financial Crises?
In Chicago, outright bribes are generally used as simple graft, like a gifting a bottle of Seagrams 7 to your postman to encourage him not to throw away your mail. It works; is nearly harmless; and it...
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Quinn Pro Quo: $475K for Pat Quinn’s Services
Did Gov. Pat Quinn’s administration intervene in the road builders strike to help the public — or to help two labor unions which gave him hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign donations just...
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Quinn Fires Axelrod Frim
Axelrod PR firm splits with Quinn Chicago Sun-Times - Abdon M. Pallasch - 17 minutes ago The public relations firm started by President Obama’s senior advisor David Axelrod, AKPD Media, has split...
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Quinn to pull plug on jobs program
Governor Quinn dumped 122 million Illinois taxpayer dollars into his "Put Illinois to Work" program since September, when federal dollars ran out. Now he says in January 2011 he will end the very jobs...
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House moves forward $1 per pack cig tax hike
One leg of Quinn/Madigan's three-pronged tax hike is ready for a House vote Tuesday ... An Illinois House committee tonight advanced a $1-a-pack cigarette tax hike that would raise some $375 million...
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Democrats manuever tax hike to woo more votes
The latest on the Democrats tax hike is just what we expected. While the clock is running out on this legislative session, they're trying to lower the personal and corporate income tax hike a tiny bit...
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Quinn sends his budget woes rolling downhill
As Democrat Gov. Pat Quinn desperately looks for ways to reduce the hopelessly bloated state budget, one of his targets is the regional offices of education - kind of. Quinn doesn't want to be the one...
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Arbitrator rejects Quinn’s lay off plan. Faustian deal with unions backfires.
An arbitrator has ordered Gov. Pat Quinn to cancel his plan to lay off state employees and close several prisons and mental facilities. Arbitrator Edwin Benn ruled Monday that Quinn's plan would...
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Illinois Bishops speak about Quinn’s presenting Personal PAC award
from Illinois Catholic Bishops We have recently been made aware of Governor Quinn’s decision to present a Pro-Choice Leadership Award at an upcoming event for a political organization known as Personal...
View ArticleRescuing Medicaid: How Illinois can reform Medicaid without rate cuts and tax...
by Jonathan Ingram In February, Gov. Pat Quinn told lawmakers that to rescue Illinois’ Medicaid program, the state would need to “reduce expenditures in the program by $2.7 billion” for fiscal year...
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