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We Welcome- Michale Callahan, Illinois State Police (ret.)

“Since when is murder, Too Politically Sensitive?” Michale Callahan, Lieutenant Commander, Illinois State Police (ret.) If you’re going to live [...]


Illinois Budget Blues Continue…

Editor Note: In a For The Good of Illinois subscriber email on November 4, 2011, we forecast “The Next Income [...]


Pension Benefit Is A Taxpayer Rip-off, Decatur Herald & Review Sunday Editorial

By the Decatur H&R Editorial Staff Herald-Review.com Most Illinois residents don’t need another example to prove that the powerful in [...]


Is Pension Proposal Political Poison? Champaign News-Gazette

It was the dog’s failure to bark in the night that provided a crucial clue in “Silver Blaze,” one of [...]


Eye on state keeps it in check, Decatur Herald & Review Editorial

Mention the words “open government” or “transparency” and the eyes of a lot of readers glaze over. But the pension [...]


Letters to Editor- Citizens Across Illinois

Decatur Herald-Review New Website Shows Salary Amounts Today there is a bombshell on the Internet. It is called openthebooks.com. It [...]


Union Leaders Draining Teacher Pensions- $47 million

Last month, the Chicago Tribune broke the story of a union leader who was re-hired for one day at the [...]


Union Leaders Pull Down Millions in Public Pensions

Illinois Statehouse News SPRINGFIELD — Illinois taxpayers are on the hook to make sure union officials’ six-figure pensions keep flowing [...]


Michael Savage National Radio Program Appearance

Last night, our openthebooks.com story went on national conservative talk radio. The third largest conservative talk radio program had me [...]


Tax hike not enough Illinois Statehouse News, Report

AUDIO is embedded at the “click here” link below. SPRINGFIELD — Adam Andrzejewski says he’s not surprised by a new [...]


The Stevie Jay Show, Champaign “Connect FM” at 93.5 and 95.3

Listen to the podcast, click here: http://forthegoodofillinois.org/wp-content/uploads/StevieJayChampaign92311.mp3 Stevie Jay, the dominant Champaign talk radio host for the last 20 plus [...]


Sharp Lens Put on State Pensions- Daily Journal, Kankakee

For a screen shot of the front page article, click here. “I think I made about 970,000 enemies in the [...]


WIND 560AM, Chicago Podcast- Big John & Amy Show

Listen to the podcast: first 10 minutes of hour 2 at this link, click here: Ten minutes of pure Big [...]


WMAY 970AM- Springfield, The Jim Leach Show

Please listen to the podcast: 15 minutes, click here. In the state capitol, Adam Andrzejewski talks about insider, union access [...]


Website offers good news in open government

Jerry Moore: Website offers good news in open government Western suburbs — From December 2009 through January 2010, Adam Andrzejewski’s [...]