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* New Chambers: Stalled plan for hospital aid costs taxpayers $12M
* Real ID program reason to worry
* Levin talks up GRT
* Manufacturer’s group upset with governor over tax plan
* Senator Brady gives his own State of the State message in Lincoln
* Editorial: Governor has failed to prioritize in budget
* Jack Lavin says more than half of state corporations ‘don’t pay a dime of taxes’
* Tribune Editorial: Student loan sale just an attempt at fast cash
* Tribune Editorial: Governor’s questionable friends
* Statehouse Insider: Random bits on Governor’s GRT plan
Blagojevich says big, bad corporations pay little or no state corporate income tax because the tax code is riddled with “loopholes.'’ “Loophole'’ is one of those loaded words that conjures visions of some cabal figuring out ways for faceless companies to stick it to the little guy.
* Editorial: Filling the pension gap
* Jury still out on Blagojevich’s pension plans
* Governor adds more money for schools in new budget
* Lawmaker questions sale of student loans
* Editorial: Let Governor spend his own money to promote plan
* Editorial: Illinois doesn’t need to launch class war
* Governor orders surveys about proposed healthcare plan
State Rep. John Bradley, D-Marion, said it was odd that the administration was only now collecting information about the health insurance needs of small business owners.
“Don’t you do that before you announce the plan?” said Bradley. “It’s an interesting approach to governance.”
* Black caucus wants new subsidy formula
A report looking at $1.2 billion in subsidies provided by the state from 1990 to 2004 found Chicago received only about 15 percent of the subsidies, though it’s home to 38 percent of the region’s population.
* Immigrants in Carpentersville feel sting of ‘English-only’ proposal
* Report: Illinois community college travel spending rules vary
* AG Madigan helps public get access to records
Madigan is one of only a handful of state attorneys general with a division devoted to opening up government agencies and helping people get the information they are entitled to by law.
* General public makes most requests for help in getting information
* Highlights of attorney general’s report on public records access
* Prisons a tough call for proposed smoking ban
* Smokers are fired up over the possibility of putting out their cigarettes under the proposed Smoke Free Illinois Act.
* IDOT dragging its feet on inspecting new Peotone area runway?
By building a runway less than a mile from the state’s proposed airport, Bult threatens to drive up land costs and make IDOT’s planning efforts more difficult, according to local residents.
* CTA better get use to it: Blue line repairs would take $100 million dollars and 3 years
“It makes me feel like the state Legislature has abandoned us,” said 55-year-old Michael Pagano, noting the lack of a long-term funding source for mass transit. “I guess I’ll have to bear with it until the state gets its act together.”
* Sun-Times Editorial: Slobs should help clean up CTA
* Editorial: Better oversight must go with transit funds
* Tribune Editorial: Judges and their donors
The real problem is not judicial campaigns that are privately financed but judicial campaigns, period. A better remedy is to turn these offices over to a merit selection process designed to minimize the role of politics in the courts.
* Lawmakers worry about declining quality of college education
* Tribune Editorial: Lip service to students
* Law would allow roadside memorials for drunk driving victims
* Dave Syverson’s bill ‘is something the city wanted‘
* Why lawmakers are looking at Facebook; other internet proposals
* Tough love approach to teen driving
* Med Mal issue far from dead
* Editorial: Too many Illinois don’t understand underage drinking
* Editorial: Quit idle political talk of closing prisons
Of course it was pure coincidence in 2004 that two of the prisons the governor proposed closing were in areas represented by Republican lawmakers - Pontiac, represented by state Sen. Dan Rutherford, and Vandalia, represented by Senate Republican Leader Frank Watson.
* Lawmakers preemptively target ‘remote control hunting’
* Schoenburg: Springfield aldermanic races, endorsements
* Quad Cities get word from D.C.: Money is tight
* Peraica spokeman rips Gorman
* Gorman actions demand response
* Stroger donor may get no bid deal
* Cuts may be coming at Oak Forest hospital
* Waste hauler with alleged mob ties doing state work
* Unincorporated residents suddenly ticketed for vehicle stickers
* Voter registration deadline nears
* Davis & Parker: Notable omission in Peoria PAC’s picks for council
* Election challenge is costly to taxpayers
* Pretty people and their politics: celebrity donations
* Unusual spending habits
* Glen Ellyn incident underscores tension wrought by suburban homelessness
* Krol: Must be something in the Dupage Co. water
posted by Paul Richardson
Monday, Mar 19, 07 @ 7:50 am
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Interesting that Jack Lavin is “going after” corporations (for the GRT, etc), when it’s his job to get corporations to come to Illinois.
Comment by What are they thinking? Monday, Mar 19, 07 @ 7:54 am
Addressing the Facebook article, if you have a gripe against another student, your parent, or even a faculty member at school by all means gripe about it. Just don’t make any threats, because ultimately that is just bad news. Especially if someone can read it.
Comment by Levois Monday, Mar 19, 07 @ 9:42 am
While I have real reservations about the Real ID act, that editorial in the Pantagraph was a paranoid rant. Anytime you both refer to Hitler AND the book of Revelation, I’m not sure your point of view should be respected.
Comment by cermak_rd Monday, Mar 19, 07 @ 12:00 pm
Regarding the possible cutbacks at Oak Forest, I thought Illinois needed to reduce its use of institutional care according to numerous experts and advocacy groups. Does anybody but a tiny tiny fraction of the population need long term care at a full service hospital. I really doubt it.
Sounds like another jobs farm not a state of the art program for the disabled. So of course, the employees are complaining. And residents may well be attached to the place but they deserve state of the art care plans not what’s politically expedient for the County Dems.
Comment by Cassandra Monday, Mar 19, 07 @ 12:10 pm
that facebook story is stupid. The problem those teens face is that they are making threats and hit lists. You can ban myspace and facebook from every computer in the world and it won’t stop the fact that kids make hit lists and shady statements. in days past people would simply write them on paper with a pencil. shall we ban them in schools as well?
Comment by Robbie Monday, Mar 19, 07 @ 5:58 pm
Jack Lavin needs to be quiet and grow some. Every time our hare-brained governor comes up with some new “initiative” that’s going to make our lives wonderful, Jack is right out there, ready to lick his shoes and kiss his, well nevermind. Shilling for the gov. just plain makes you look bad, Jack.
Comment by Disgusted Monday, Mar 19, 07 @ 7:01 pm