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Amendment 1 Would Be A Dream Come True For Chicago Teachers Union To Make Its Most Radical Demands For All America
If approved by Illinois voters in November, Amendment 1 will give government teachers’ unions an unfettered constitutional right to demand not just anything in their interests, but in what they see as the interests of every Illinoisan.
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Amendment 1: It definitely has nothing to do with property taxes political cartoon
Amendment 1: It definitely has nothing to do with property taxes political cartoon
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Catalog Of Deceit: A List of JB Pritzker’s Falsehoods and Whoppers
Truth is easy to hide in politics today.
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Some Prosecutors Now Assessing Which Pre-Trial Detainees To Release On January 1, Contradicting Claim That SAFE-T Act Not Retroactive
Supporters of Illinois’ SAFE-T Act often ridicule the act’s critics who claim the law is retroactive and will result, on January 1 in release from jail of many detainees arrested prior to that date.But actions speak louder than words.
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‘Gender Affirmation’ Or Childhood Body Mutilation? Chicago Just Declared Itself A Sanctuary For It
In the US and around the world, it’s rapidly becoming among the most emotionally charged and contentious issues of the day.To supporters, it’s gender affirmation for children who think they were born into the wrong body and should be given puberty blockers, mastectomies or other surgery.To opponents, its nothing less than child abuse, body mutilation and medical malpractice.Battles now rage over it in courts and legislatures across America and among medical and ethical professionals.Chicago, however, has made its decision, not just for itself but for the rest of the world.It went mostly unnoticed in last week’s declaration by the Chicago City Council to become an abortion sanctuary, but the new city ordinance also covers, with no regard for age, “gender-affirming care.” By that it means as “all services, supplies, drug therapies, and other care that an individual may receive to support and affirm the individual’s gender identity.”The ordinance bans cooperation by any city official or worker, including Chicago police, with any other jurisdiction’s effort to investigate or enforce a matter that conflicts with Chicago’s idea of bodily autonomy, “regardless of whether such law is stylized as a charge relating to homicide, child abuse, or any other charge that is pretext for enforcing such a restrictive law.”Bodily autonomy, as the city defines it, includes self-governance over one’s own reproductive gender identity, including gender-affirming care, regardless of age.
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Gov. Pritzker, Call A Special Session On SAFE-T Act. Voters Deserve To Know Before Election If Any Real Changes Will Be Made
Crime is perhaps the top issue for Illinois voters this year and the extraordinarily divisive SAFE-T Act is central to it.The 764-page bill makes many highly controversial changes to Illinois criminal law and procedure.
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Pritzker’s New Emergency Disaster Proclamation For Immigrants: Compassion Or Peak Hypocrisy?
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Wednesday issued an emergency proclamation declaring a disaster in every Illinois county “to ensure all state resources are available to support asylum seekers arriving nearly daily to Chicago from the State of Texas,” as stated in his press release.“The proclamation,” as the press release says, “enables the Illinois Emergency Management Agency (IEMA) and other state agencies, in close coordination with the City of Chicago, Cook County, and other local governments, to ensure the individuals and families receive the assistance they need.
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Pritzker signs Illinois’ 34th Covid Disaster Proclamation even as Biden proclaims ‘Covid is over’
Never mind that President Joe Biden declared “the pandemic is over” during a 60 Minutes interview Sunday night.
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Amendment 1 property taxes are too low for Illinois unions political cartoon
Amendment 1 property taxes are too low for Illinois unions
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More failure at Chicago Public Schools: About one-third of traditional schools are half empty or worse
Teachers union power politics, weak administrations, and absent political leadership have left Chicago Public Schools with a glaring and intractable problem: increasingly empty, failing schools. Of CPS’ 478 stand-alone “traditional” or non-charter, non-contract schools, one third of them, 150, are less than half-full, according to CPS.
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Pritzker’s response to the Jenny Thornley matter is either dishonest, derelict or both
Still deeper into the hole they go.We finally got a response from Gov. JB Pritzker on what he knows about the Jenny Thornley matter, which we are following closely.
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Workers Rights Amendment Cartoon
Workers Rights Amendment Cartoon
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Chicago’s new sexual harassment training mandate is more like employer harassment
The City of Chicago’s expanded rules on sexual harassment prevention training went into effect this month.
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Why do I have to pay a dollar more for a gallon of gas in Illinois compared to Wisconsin?
On Sunday I traveled to Milwaukee for a quick family trip.
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Lightfoots European vacation big business flees Chicago cartoon
Lightfoots European vacation big business flees Chicago cartoon
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Four more states move to a flat tax. Illinoisans were right to reject Pritzker’s progressive income tax
To all those Illinoisans who opposed the progressive tax back in 2020: you’re being proven more right every day. Illinois would have become even less competitive at a time when more and more states are increasing their economic competitiveness by moving to a flat income tax.This year alone, four states decided to transition their individual state income tax from progressive to flat:Iowa passed a law that will turn its progressive tax into a 3.9% flat tax by 2026.Georgia’s income tax is scheduled to convert to a 5.49% flat rate by 2024. Mississippi will go from a progressive tax to a flat tax next year.Arizona, after a lengthy court battle, has finally won the right to transition to a 2.5 percent flat income tax in 2024.There are also movements in Wisconsin and Oklahoma to make those states’ taxes flat as well.Both Georgia and Arizona’s change to a flat structure are not automatic and must meet certain financial conditions to occur.
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Chicago carjackings on pace for a 22-year high – and they’re getting more and more weaponized
Chicago’s growing carjacking problem is a microcosm of what’s gone wrong in the city.
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Market Watch: Homebuilder William Ryan sells Hinsdale mansion for $3.2M less than original listing
Illinois' highest-in-the-nation property taxes are eroding home equity and depressing home values across the state. This report is part of a DuPage Policy Journal series on recent home sales that demonstrate the consequences.