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Chicago, IL, United States
Chicago, IL
WirePoints News
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The recently approved state budget hardly makes Illinois the beacon of fiscal prudence that Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker and legislative leaders claim it is, budgetary analysts at Wirepoints say.
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Wirepoints founder Mark Glennon believes Gov. J.B. Pritzker went overboard with his excessive budget for the state's infrastructure.
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To spike their pensions, New Trier high school teachers, a few years from retirement, had six percent annual bumps in salary written into their 2016-2019 contracts.
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Senate Republican Leader Bill Brady’s undisclosed financial interests in the gaming industry, and his public celebration with Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker over legislative approval of a massive expansion of gaming in the state, the budget and other controversial bills marks a new low point for the Republican Party.
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Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s success in pushing his progressive income tax proposal to the brink of becoming law is being celebrated as a “big win” for the new governor, but the online government watchdog organization Wirepoints sees it differently.
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Wirepoints president Ted Dabrowski hints that the devil is probably in the details when it comes to the capital-improvements plan being pushed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker.
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Illinois home values continue to lag, with recent data showing they remain 12 percent below pre-Great Recession peak levels.
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A dwindling national birth rate could have particularly dire consequences here in Illinois, reports an online political think tank.
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Illinois home values have yet to return to pre-recession levels, making the state home to one of the worst recovery rates in the country.
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In the matter of Illinois' Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Wirepoints' Ted Dabrowski believes lawmakers in Springfield are not seeing the forest for the trees.
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The fact that the Illinois budget situation has become a farce is no laughing matter to Ted Dabrowski.
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A tax package passed by the Illinois state Senate last week to push Gov. J.B. Pritzker's revenue-raising agenda includes a property-tax freeze and other "gimmicks" that are not what they seem, the founder of an online news outlet said during a recent interview.
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An article posted on the government watchdog website Wirepoints said that Illinoisans should not have been too shocked to learn about Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s alleged ploy of removing toilets from his Gold Coast mansion to avoid a higher property tax bill.
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Illinois State Rep. Dan Ugaste (R-Geneva) is convinced the Illinois Senate’s unanimous passage of a bill requiring all new state workers to reside within the boundaries of the state screams desperation.
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Wirepoints claims that Pritzker's progressive tax will, in fact, hit the middle class where it hurts
Illinois government watchdog Wirepoints views Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s progressive tax proposal as an equal opportunity destroyer.
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Illinois’ steadily rising outmigration numbers may not tell the whole story about the state’s declining population.
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The College Illinois prepaid tuition program is barreling toward a state taxpayer bailout and that should surprise no one, the founder of an online news outlet said during a recent interview.
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When it comes to its accelerating outmigration crisis, Illinois has now deteriorated into an island among Rust Belt states, and a sinking one at that.
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Government watchdog website Wirepoints insists numbers don’t lie when it comes to the financial projections being advanced by Gov. J.B. Pritzker.
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Years of unbalanced budgets, unpaid bills, pension shortfalls and a collapse in manufacturing jobs are among 20 "facts" that Democrat Gov. J.B. Pritzker doesn't want "ordinary Illinoisans" to know, an online news service said earlier this week.
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