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Wirepoints' Glennon sums up exodus from Illinois: Taxes, debt, crime, corruption, discrimination
Wirepoints founder Mark Glennon says there's no mystery behind Illinois’ rapidly falling population, which one recent report has at nearly 160,000 departures over the past five years.
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Pritzker’s claims of paying down pension debt “simply dishonest,” fiscal watchdog says
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: Pritzker's capital budget 'is madness'
Wirepoints founder Mark Glennon believes Gov. J.B. Pritzker went overboard with his excessive budget for the state's infrastructure.
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New Trier, other wealthy school districts shifting their built-in pension spiking costs to taxpayers statewide
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 leader Bill Brady’s undisclosed gaming interests 'worthy of a Chicago alderman'
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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Wirepoints: Pritzker win a loss for middle class
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 claims capital bill debate is premature given state's many, more urgent issues
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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Wirepoints predicts Pritzker's tax plan will only drag Illinois' real estate market down further
Illinois home values continue to lag, with recent data showing they remain 12 percent below pre-Great Recession peak levels.
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Wirepoints reports that nation's declining birth rate is a particularly serious issue in Illinois
A dwindling national birth rate could have particularly dire consequences here in Illinois, reports an online political think tank.
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Illinois still waiting for housing to rebound
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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Bill to allow food stamps at fast-food restaurants misses the mark, Wirepoints president says
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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Nothing funny about Illinois' budget mess
The fact that the Illinois budget situation has become a farce is no laughing matter to Ted Dabrowski.
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Property tax freeze 'a lame, transparent and phony attempt' to hoodwink Illinoisans, Glennon says
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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While creative, Wirepoints notes that Pritzker's alleged tax scheme is nothing new in Chicagoland
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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Bill requiring state workers to be residents raises concern for GOP lawmakers, policy watchdog
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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'A perfect demographic storm' – People not just fleeing Illinois; birth and migration rates plunge
Illinois’ steadily rising outmigration numbers may not tell the whole story about the state’s declining population.
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College Illinois' expected half-billion dollar taxpayer bailout imminent but no surprise, Wirepoints founder says
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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'Illinois is shrinking' – Wirepoints provides sobering data about state's outmigration crisis
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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Pritzker's fiscal plan doesn't add up, Wirepoints says
Government watchdog website Wirepoints insists numbers don’t lie when it comes to the financial projections being advanced by Gov. J.B. Pritzker.