Lawmakers are rushing to adopt pension cuts before new lawmakers are sworn in Jan. 9 and legislation resets. But even as the House works to get a plan moving Monday, the Senate wouldn’t start working on it until Tuesday afternoon — if senators show in Springfield at all. The Senate left Springfield last week with [...]
Fight for definition of marriage to continue in Illinois
January 7, 2013 By Leave a Comment
During a conference call with reporters on December 13, Rep. Gregory Harris told of his informal survey of fellow Democratic House legislators showing that opposition to the gay marriage idea had dropped significantly since the Nov. 6 elections after voters in Maine, Maryland and Washington State sanctioned gay marriage. Nine other states and the District [...]
Scientific Evidence Against Smoking Pot: Teens and Brain Damage
January 7, 2013 By 2 Comments
It was in 1970 when the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) supported extensive research on marijuana which proved marijuana highly dangerous. Through the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, marijuana was classified as a Drug with “No Accepted Medical Use.” Although the Schafer Commission report in 1972 recommended removing marijuana from the the scheduling [...]
House Committee Passes Drivers Licences for Illegals
January 7, 2013 By 1 Comment
The House Transportation Committee voted 6-3 to allow the bill to the full House for a vote. That vote has not been scheduled yet. Under the plan, which has already passed the Senate, undocumented immigrants who have lived in Illinois for one year would be eligible to receive a temporary visitors drivers license that would [...]
Nothing Fair About “Fair Share”
January 7, 2013 By 4 Comments
When I first accepted employment with Community High School District #218, I joined the teacher’s union. It was presented to me as something everyone did. I did not think about that decision very much or investigate it at all. Later that year though, I stumbled across some disturbing information. It was the National Education Association’s [...]
For The Good Of Illinois Sues Comptroller Judy Baar-Topinka
January 7, 2013 By 3 Comments
LAWSUIT FILED TO COMPEL COMPTROLLER JUDY BAAR-TOPINKA TO COMPLY WITH STATE LAW AND MAKE AVAILABLE THE STATE OF ILLINOIS CHECKBOOK FOR PUBLIC REVIEW Press conference discussing For The Good of Illinois’s lawsuit for citizen access to the state’s most important financial data. How can taxpayers have confidence in any proposed state pension solution, if elected officials are hiding line [...]
