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by Adam Doster
5:34pm
Fri Aug 28, 2009
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Transcribing Kirk's Stimulus Nonsense

Mark Kirk

Earlier this month, we criticized
some local media outlets for uncritically reporting Republican Senate
candidate Mark Kirk's dubious talking points on health care.
Today, the Alton Telegraph took that approach to a whole new level. In a story about Kirk's
campaign event ...

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by Adam Doster
11:15am
Thu Aug 27, 2009

Number Of The Day: $550 Million

Stimulus bill

After years of preparation by rail advocates and months of lobbying from Illinois pols,
the Illinois Department of Transportation formally submitted its
application for federal high speed rail funds on Monday, as the Pantagraph reports.
Officials requested $550 ...

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by Adam Doster
10:22am
Thu Aug 27, 2009

Looking Past The Stimulus Cash

Education

Is  the stimulus package doing as much for schools as proponents promised back in the spring? A new study
by the American Association of School Administrators (AASA) finds that
administrators from 160 school districts across the country think "a
lack of ...

PI Original
by Adam Doster
9:57am
Wed Aug 26, 2009
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Unemployment Insurance Open Thread

Unemployment

Spurred by our posts about a legislative push to secure more
unemployment benefits for the state's workforce, a robust conversation
developed in our comments section among readers trying to maneuver
their way through Illinois' unemployment insurance bureaucracy. Many
...

PI Original
by Angela Caputo
2:04pm
Mon Aug 17, 2009
1 comment

Illinois' Good News, Bad News Stimulus Take

State budget

Even during the most contentious moments of the stalemate over the state budget this spring, one point that many lawmakers agreed on was that the federal stimulus package had provided state government with a lifeline. Without the $6.5 billion cash infusion, school budgets...

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by Adam Doster
12:09pm
Fri Aug 7, 2009

As National Unemployment Dips, Will Illinois Follow Suit?

Unemployment

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its July jobs data
yesterday and the results were pretty encouraging. For the first time
in 15 months, the unemployment rate actually fell, from 9.5 to 9.4
percent. Employers only cut 247,000 jobs, about 80,000 less than
...

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by Adam Doster
12:37pm
Wed Jul 29, 2009
1 comment

Daily Herald: Late To The High-Speed Rail Party

Media

It's only been four months since the Daily Herald editorial board trashed
the use of stimulus funds on high-speed rail (HSR) as "excessive,
meaningless government spending." But this week, after Gov. Pat Quinn
and governors of seven other Midwestern states ...

PI Original
by Adam Doster
2:24pm
Fri Jul 24, 2009
1 comment

Kirk Joins Roskam, Votes Against High Speed Rail Funding

Transportation

Throughout the negotiations over President Obama's recovery package, Rep. Mark Kirk insisted that some form of stimulus was “necessary" to create jobs and get the nation's economy back on track. But the Republican congressman ultimately voted against the Democratic ...

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by Angela Caputo
2:51pm
Fri Jul 10, 2009

Martire On Five-Month Budget: "Things Are Going To Get Worse"

Stimulus bill

For all his political missteps and flip-flops in recent months, Gov.
Pat Quinn has at least stuck to his guns on one issue: the need for an
income tax increase. It's obvious to most observers that our state
simply cannot fill a mammoth $9.2 billion budget hole without new
...