By Andy ShawPresident and CEO - Better Government Association Illinois lawmakers are returning to Springfield on Wednesday for a special session on the pension crisis. They’re searching for a plan…read more →

June 17, 2013 Back in 2011 when the village loaned $30,000 to Cozzi Discount Grocers, they were expected to stay in the village a minimum of 5 years and repay…read more →

Here is the check register to be approved Monday June 17th. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE PDF  East Dundee Check Register 06-17-13read more →

June 13, 2013 This week's guest was Illinois State Representative Ron Sandack. Ron shared the dysfunction of total Democrat majority rule. He agreed that Governor Quinn's special session later this…read more →

Austerity in Europe Does Not Mean Massive Spending Cuts By Veronique de Rugy MERCATUS CENTER AT GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY With the European Commission’s recent calls to abandon austerity in favor…read more →

By James Carlini We have all heard about the municipality in California that has paid some of its administrators with six-figure salaries as well as six-figure pensions, but we think…read more →

Red-light cameras have become a lucrative but corrupt form of taxation. By HOLMAN W. JENKINS, JR. - WSJ.com In Chicago, voters are familiar with human nature. This may explain why…read more →

How much money does IL have? We don't know By Institute for Truth in Accounting How much of our money does Illinois have? Is it spending too much? We still…read more →

By  Veronique de Rugy - NRO I continue to be amazed by this chart. Its author is Andrew Coulson at the Cato Institute and it shows there is no connection between…read more →

Big thanks goes out Jeff Berkowitz for filling in for Jeff Ward. We talked mostly about charter Schools, both the positives like helping low income families with Andrew Broy, Ex…read more →