Question of the day
Monday, May 7, 2012 - Posted by Rich Miller * Yours truly hanging out with Ice T at the Derby (for, like, two minutes)… ![]() * The Question: Caption?
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Monday, May 7, 2012 - Posted by Rich Miller
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Pension dispute boils down to individual vs. collective contract rights
Monday, May 7, 2012 - Posted by Rich Miller * Greg Hinz gives us the story on what could be a very big disagreement between House Speaker Michael Madigan on one side and Senate President John Cullerton and Gov. Pat Quinn on the other over pension reform…
* More details from Chris Wetterich…
I think Cullerton probably has the right idea here. How can unions negotiate pension changes for systems with lots of people who aren’t union members?
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Deja vu all over again
Monday, May 7, 2012 - Posted by Rich Miller * My weekly syndicated newspaper column…
* Henderson is also raising expectations of incredible new evidence that will clear his client’s name. Sound familiar? It should…
At one time, Blagojevich also hinted that the feds were after information about Barack Obama. That was just another of his lies. * And Mark Brown has some news…
Thoughts?
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Fun with numbers
Monday, May 7, 2012 - Posted by Rich Miller * From the Tribune we find a story about the company which manages the state Lottery…
* The company promised $825 million in total revenues. It’s on track to bring in $770 million. That may actually be a $100 million increase, as you’ll find if you read way down deep into the article explains…
But, as the article notes, the Lottery claims it transfered $690 million last fiscal year to the state budget. Nobody could explain the discrepancy. Northstar has to meet a specific goal or it’ll be fined. According to the Trib, if the company hits the $770 million projection, it would owe nearly $11 million in penalties…
What we really need here are the real numbers. The Lottery needs to start sharing. Pronto.
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Man bites dog
Monday, May 7, 2012 - Posted by Rich Miller * Rare is the day when the Chicago Tribune editorial page blasts Republican state legislators on the budget, but today is that day…
Look, there are plenty of really good reasons not to close some of those facilities. I even agree with some of them, disagree with others. There are decent arguments against closing all of them. For instance, this is from a Treasurer Dan Rutherford op-ed in the very same Tribune…
Legislating ain’t always easy, especially in times like these. But there are folks who talk a good game about cutting the budget and then won’t follow through. * The Trib’s closer…
Hard to argue with that. * Other stuff…
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Cutting Medicaid ain’t easy, Part 9,257
Monday, May 7, 2012 - Posted by Rich Miller * The Associated Press looks into “cutting fraud” as the answer to solving a big portion of Illinois’ Medicaid funding woes…
Discuss.
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