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Wilhour on Manteno Gotion plant: ‘We’re funding basically people that are supportive of the Chinese Communist Party’
The Gotion controversy in Manteno involves Gotion Inc., a company linked to the Chinese Communist Party, is receiving $8 billion in taxpayer subsidies to construct a $2 billion battery factory.
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Spain: 'Year after year, we saw the majority party continue to double down on these expansions'
Critics are lining up against a projected $990 million in spending associated with Medicaid for illegal immigrants.
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From Prairie State Wire
Wirepoints makes a data-backed argument about why Illinoisans 'can and must get back to work'
When Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed off on the stay-at-home order that essentially shut off Illinois' economy five weeks ago, few could argue with his reasoning. Now, though, a government watchdog group claims the current reality warrants opening the state back up.
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From Prairie State Wire
Illinois has enough ventilators for COVID-19 patients, according to state's data
If Gov. J.B. Pritzker gets the 4,000 ventilators he's requested, Illinois could end up with 2,280 more ventilators than it needs under worst-case scenario projections for the coronavirus crisis in Illinois, according to an analysis of recently released data from the state.
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From Metro East Sun
Sen. Plummer's farm-equipment bill rises to top of new crop of state laws
Freshmen Illinois state Sen. Jason Plummer (R-Edwardsville) is grateful for the praise his bill eliminating registration fees for certain farming equipment is drawing as one of the most sensible of more than 250 new laws enacted on Jan. 1.
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From Prairie State Wire
More than half of Illinois' police and fire pension funds are underfunded, Wirepoints reports
Financial decay is happening at all levels of Illinois state government, according to the president of state news aggregation and research site Wirepoints.
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From Prairie State Wire
Illinois home values show little growth compared to neighbors, rest of U.S., Wirepoints reports
Illinois ranked near the bottom in average U.S. home values over a 12-year period ending in 2017, according to a new Wirepoints report.
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From Prairie State Wire
Wirepoints calls out Pritzker for doubling state's gas tax, breaking promise to middle class
Illinois state lawmakers have a dubious history of subjecting residents to gas tax hikes, but the recent doubling of the state gas tax to 38 cents per gallon seems to have taken things to an entirely new level.
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From Prairie State Wire
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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From Prairie State Wire
Illinios education officials want half the state's budget, Wirepoints warns
Illinois education officials are out to get half of the state's budget—and they just might—to the detriment of the state's taxpayers, according to an online Wirepoints newsletter issued earlier today.
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From Prairie State Wire
State facing huge debt for public-sector retiree health benefits, says Wirepoints
Illinois's "other debt disaster" is $73 billion in unfunded state retiree health insurance benefits and more than twice that amount owed over the next four decades, according to a special report issued this week by an online news outlet.
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From Prairie State Wire
Population falling, but Illinois government leaders agree to spend, borrow more
Illinois state government leaders say they will spend a record $38.5 billion and borrow an estimated $11.5 billion over the next year, according to a fiscal year 2019 budget plan approved by Gov. Bruce Rauner.