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Illinois: Senate to study discipline gap
Springfield :: MO :: USA | about 5 hours ago
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The Illinois Senate will try to find the cause of a gaping racial disparity in how schoolchildren are disciplined, officials said Tuesday. Lawmakers will form a study group to review numbers reported by The Associated Press that show blacks account for...
Tags: Illinois Senate, Springfield, Rod Blagojevich controversies, Speakers of the Illinois House of Representatives, Dale Risinger, School punishment, Suspension, Rod Blagojevich, Politics, Esther Golar, Social Issues, Video game censorship, John Cullerton, United States Department of Justice, Pat Quinn, Education, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Rutherford runs for state treasurer
Danville :: VA :: USA | 11 days ago
Credibility Speaking out against wrong moves being made in Springfield is part of the platform for Illinois treasurer candidate Dan Rutherford. Rutherford, R-Pontiac, currently represents the 53rd District in the Illinois Senate. He is the sole Republican Party candidate...
Tags: Dan Rutherford, Illinois Senate, Danville, State treasurer, Rutherford New Jersey, Green Party of New Jersey, Hoopeston Illinois, Alexi Giannoulias, Bergen County New Jersey, Illinois Treasurer, Politics, Labor
Ill. House approves campaign donation limits
Springfield :: MO :: USA | 26 days ago
Credibility Deadline looms, House approves campaign finance bill Posted by Ray Long and Monique Garcia at 10:19 p.m. With time running out, the Illinois House late tonight approved a measure that for the first time would put major restrictions on how politicians...
Tags: Illinois Senate, Illinois House, campaign donation, Rod Blagojevich, political donation, oks caps
Lawmakers reconsider free rides for seniors
Springfield :: MO :: USA | 27 days ago
Credibility Lawmakers are thinking about scaling back free bus and train rides for all but the poorest seniors to help cash-strapped transit agencies, a move that carries the risk of alienating a large group of voters with little more than three months until the...
Tags: Illinois Senate, Todd Stroger
Voters to have say on recall measure
Springfield :: MO :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Illinois voters will be asked in November 2010 whether they want to give themselves the option of recalling a governor in the wake of indicted ex- Gov. Rod Blagojevich 's fall from power. The Senate gave the final sign-off Thursday to putting the proposed...
Tags: Illinois Senate, Illinois House, constitutional amendment
New law to assure clean drinking water: gov
Champaign :: IL :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility Staff Reporter modonnell@suntimes.com A new law will safeguard citizens from a repeat of the drinking-water debacle in south suburban Crestwood, Gov. Quinn said as he signed the bill Sunday. Attorney General Lisa Madigan said at the bill-signing at the...
Rod Blagojevich impeachment prosecutor speaks out at Capitolbeat
Indianapolis :: IN :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility When then- Gov. Rod Blagojevich first refused to attend his impeachment trial in the Illinois Senate, the lawyer who prosecuted him was disappointed because he wanted a showdown. "I wanted a fight," David Ellis said. "I wanted them to challenge me every...
Tags: Rod Blagojevich, Mitch Daniels, Illinois Senate, Illinois Republicans
Chris Kennedy will not seek office
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility Kennedy joins state Attorney General Lisa Madigan (D) in declining to run for Senate and also not entering the race for governor. The writing was on the wall with Kennedy, as he in recent weeks shifted his focus from what had once been a likely Senate...
Tags: Chris Kennedy, Illinois Senate, U.S. Senate, Christopher Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Mr. Kennedy, senate seat, NBC Chicago
Republican Matt Murphy enters governor's race
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility As he headed to a recent fundraiser with Republican colleagues in the Illinois Senate, state Sen. Matt Murphy said the group's members jokingly called each other "governor," trying to avoid any potential hard feelings should one of them win the job next...
Tags: Sen. Matt Murphy, Illinois Senate
House rejects tax increase amid budget woes
Springfield :: MO :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility Ill. (AP) — The Illinois House overwhelmingly rejected a temporary income tax increase Sunday, moving the state closer to massive spending cuts that critics called a "doomsday" budget. The House's Democratic leaders didn't even try to pass a larger, permanent...
Tags: Rod Blagojevich, Illinois House/Senate, Pat Quinn, Illinois Senate, Illinois Freedom of Information, work anew
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