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“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein
March 3, 2020

Property taxes are never too far from the top of the list of things that...

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January 1, 2019

It’s January 1, and we’re a little over a week from starting a new General...

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March 4, 2018

In my last post, I said that the pension cost shift that the Governor proposed...

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January 17, 2018

Combine a limitation on state and local taxes (SALT) under the new Federal tax bill...

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January 6, 2018

In the past several months, the Chicago Tribune has extensively researched and written about the...

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November 10, 2017

They call it “Veto Session”, but it really ought to be called “Propose Bills and...

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August 31, 2017

On Monday, the House finally passed an education funding bill. The last time the legislature...

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August 10, 2017

As Nancy Pelosi famously said during the Obamacare debate: “(W)e have to pass the bill...

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August 2, 2017

The Governor has issued an amendatory veto to Senate Bill 1, and the gnashing of...

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September 4, 2016

People I’m talking to during the campaign tell me that property taxes are the top...

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October 2, 2015

“The State has the primary responsibility for financing the system of public education.” Constitution of...

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September 11, 2015

“The State has the primary responsibility for financing the system of public education.” Constitution of...

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