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* Governor returns to center stage to campaign for healthcare plan
* Budget leaves out harbor funding
* Plan to raise casino revenue might be gamble for governor:
“His answer to everything seems to be a tax increase,” she said. “The riverboat industry is a huge industry in the state of Illinois and provides a lot of income and a lot of jobs.”
* Analyst sees budget as ‘lifeboat’ for state GOP
* Slick ads promote business tax plan
* Budget advocates, opponents square off
* Businesses forsee hit if state passes payroll tax
* Cindy Richards: Guv’s budget lands in fair territory
The business community needs to stop stonewalling any idea that comes out of the governor’s mansion or propose a realistic plan that ensures all businesses pay their share of state bills.
* Governor’s plan sparks PR battle
* Former newsman goes to bat for governor on healthcare
* ComEd President: Rate freeze would bankrupt ComEd and cripple the state
* AG Madigan thinks Ameren downgrade may have been orchestrated
“The attorney general is concerned that the relationship between the utilities and the credit rating agencies is not nearly as independent as the utilities claim,” Ben Weinberg, chief of the public interest division for Madigan’s office, said Tuesday.
* Editorial: Ameren ups the ante in rate game
* Editorial: Voting on ICC members won’t help consumers
* Lawmakers not discouraged by Ameren’s ‘junk’ status
* AG Madigan and Patrick Fitzgerald announce $344 million judgment against Medicaid HMO [press release]
* The mother of all judgments; company emails
The case, brought by a civil whistleblower and then joined by federal authorities and the state attorney general’s office, charged that Amerigroup cherry-picked “healthies” and purposely avoided women in their third trimester of pregnancy because they cost more to insure
* U.S. stops payments to Tinley Center
* Senate committee passes .50 caliber rifle ban
* Bill would define lawsuit settlements as public information: “The public has a right to know about where their tax dollars are being spent and why a case had to be settled and who’s wrong.”
* Legislation regulating nurse/staff ratio has only tepid support
* Daley always knew city had to pony up for Olympics
In a stuttering response to a reporter’s question, Daley said he knew “at the beginning” of the bidding process that city money would have to be put on the table. Daley said he kept it quiet — not because he wanted to get past the mayoral election — but because “we’re not putting any direct money into it.”
* City Council takes up Olympic funding
* Daley on blame for postal woes: Feds are ‘Dysfunctional’
* The promise of reform at Cook Co. juvenile detention center
* U of I board buries the Chief
* ‘Uncle Amrish’ helped raise $500,000 for governor
* Immigrant rights groups say suburbs need to start listening
* Carol Marin: FBI inquiries give county officials reason to sweat
* Michael Sneed: Tillman, Daley, Inspector General Hoffman
* Editorial: Merc, CBOT merger good for Chicago
* Excerpts from recent editorials: HPV, budget , electric rates
* City Inspector named in bribe case, said to have pocketed $16,000
* Cooking county smoking ban starts Thursday
* West Chicago to get tough on landlords with code violations
* Smoking laws in some Southland towns
* Ousted candidates back on ballot in Summit Hill
* New Lennox mayor position not likely to be made full-time: I have a lot of time with a flexible schedule to be here when the village needs me, but I don’t think it needs an $80,000-a-year mayor’s salary.”
posted by Paul Richardson
Wednesday, Mar 14, 07 @ 6:38 am
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For those who enjoyed the post regarding the Mayor blasting the governors grtproposal, read about the mayor’s statement regarding the olympics. He knew that taxpayer dollars would be needed for the olympics in CHicago, yet he said early on that they would not be needed. Now he is changing his tune. Is it coincidental that he rips the governor’s tax plan while he is saying that his original statement regarding public funding of the olympics was inaccurate? Hardly.
Looks more like a distraction, and it looks like the mayor creating an issue to leverage money from the governor, and it looks like leverage for the mayor to find a way to support the governor in this legislative session.
Stop salivating, blago haters, long enough to realie that thie tirade was political, not substantive.
Comment by Number 8 Wednesday, Mar 14, 07 @ 6:56 am
Why are people craving for the olympics? An event that will overcrowd the city facilities, lose money and bring a bunch of sports that no one really wants to watch, outside of a few.
Comment by Wumpus Moon Glampers Wednesday, Mar 14, 07 @ 8:33 am
Can you believe Amerigroup? If they are guilty of the charges (and they have been found liable and fined–heavily) they ought to be ashamed. I remember people talking about this kind of thing going on when Medicaid was trying out HMOs–that the HMOs would target the healthier people and try to discard the unhealthy ones. I thought it was an urban legend at the time. They’re going to appeal–I hope the appeals judge has some stern rhetoric for them when he hands them their, um, hat.
Comment by cermak_rd Wednesday, Mar 14, 07 @ 10:48 am
AG Madigan and Patrick Fitzgerald announce $344 million judgment against Medicaid HMO [press release]
Simply because the U.S Attorney announced a Federal Fraud judgment with Attorney General Lisa Madigan does not have an indication of reality or the eventuality………………..
Comment by One_Mcmad Wednesday, Mar 14, 07 @ 4:40 pm
Wish I had an Uncle Amrish!!!!! God, how much more evidence do the Feds need?
Comment by Disgusted Wednesday, Mar 14, 07 @ 5:52 pm