Botched Homicide Investigation; Golden Parachute from Attorney General
After a botched indictment of Mayor Daley’s nephew… “the lead ‘investigator’ ends up with a Chicago police pension; a new [...]
Public Pensions and Generational Theft – A 3 Part Series
Part 1 – Understanding Public Pensions If you are under 40, you should stop reading this, stop planning to buy [...]
Property Tax Cap First, Pension Shift Second
August 12, 2012 By Bruno Behrend Chicago Tribune Opinion Illinois public policy has become such a Gordian knot that [...]
I predicted this years ago
Back before I re-entered working in the policy and political domain, I was discussing how the growth of unsustainable pension [...]
POP a CAP on that TAX!
One of the big items of discussion in Illinois right now is the move to shift the responsibility for school [...]
Walter Russel Mead imitates For the Good of Illinois
Today, one the nation’s best known center-right bloggers and essayists posted the following; Time to Occupy State Pensions? It lays [...]
So Much for Lame Auditing… Dixon and $30 Million
“If there’s hanky-panky with the city’s money, you’d think these people are going to find it out,” he said. “We’re [...]
Heavy Handed PR Tactics at TRS
One Year ago, Adam Andrzejewski, then CEO of For the Good of Illinois, alongside State Representative Dwight Kay (R-Glen Carbon) called for a [...]
Illinois Is Broke! Website
Everyone in Illinois is talking about the commercials, click here. The knock at the door, the mother with child, and the voice that wants a check for $30,000. “I wasn’t talking to you (mother).” The voice is talking to the child.
Politics Notebook: Want to see local government salaries? Check your smartphone
Editors Note: Our founder and former CEO Adam Andrzejewski is quoted in this political column of the Belleville News-Democrat. Last [...]
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 [...]
Stop Pension Abuse- Sen. Matt Murphy, Chicago Tribune
It’s a simple, common sense idea: public pensions should be paid only to those who actually work for the public. [...]