The Illinois State Senate’s “grand bargain” budget bills sputtered out March 1 when senate leaders refused to call seven of the 12-bill package meant to hammer out a budget for…
The state’s “grand bargain” budget process may have been more harmed than helped by Gov. Bruce Rauner’s budget address to the General Assembly Feb. 15. Skeptical Democrats snickered,…
The following editorial was written by the Editorial Board of the State Journal-Register in Springfield and the newspaper is sharing it with news outlets across Illinois to publish…
The state budget impasse could continue well into July as no pressing deadlines are looming. “We will get there,” state Rep. Mark Batinick (R-Plainfield) said. “Both sides are…
Northern Illinois University will continue to credit still-unfunded Monetary Award Program (MAP) grants to student accounts, but the absence of a state budget and higher eduction funding…
State workers remain on the job, but are unsure when they will see their next paycheck. State parks and museums remain open, but for how long? And Gov. Bruce Rauner and the Democrat-controlled…
