MILLER: Campaign crud – Muddy River News Unless you’ve been under a rock, you likely know that former US President Bill Clinton seemed to say that he flew on Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet with JB Pritzker and his spouse – after saying that i...

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MILLER: Illinois budget in flux thanks to federal uncertainties – Muddy River News As I write this, Gov. JB Pritzker is preparing to give his annual budget address. It’s an unenviable task. Earlier this month, the Governor’s Office of Management and Budget released a report showing ...

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MILLER: GOP remap failure in Indiana means status quo in Illinois – Muddy River News The two most intense state legislative pressure campaigns I’ve witnessed both ended in failure. Back in 2017, Gov. Bruce Rauner tried everything he could think of to stop legislative Republicans from ...

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MILLER: Chicago takes over state teachers union – Muddy River News At the end of the 2024 spring state legislative session, the Illinois Federation of Teachers issued a decidedly diplomatic press release. IFT President Dan Montgomery praised the new state budget as “...

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MILLER: Chicago mass transit mess still looms over Springfield – Muddy River News The Taxpayers’ Federation of Illinois and the Regional Transportation Authority agree that a change to Illinois’ sales tax law will net the RTA an additional $150 million this year and another $225 mi...

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MILLER: ICE, ICE baby – Muddy River News As I write this, multiple news outlets have reported that the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency is preparing to deploy its Special Response Teams to five major US cities, including Chi...

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MILLER: What the proposed Medicaid and SNAP cuts mean for Illinois – Muddy River News The US House’s Energy and Commerce Committee released its recommendations for budget reconciliation early last week. A preliminary review by the Congressional Budget Office projected that, if implemen...

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MILLER: Speaker Welch whacks appropriations chair for going "rogue" – Muddy River News House Speaker Chris Welch took the extraordinary actions last week of permanently kicking Rep. Fred Crespo (D- Hoffman Estates) out of the House Democratic caucus, stripping him of his legislative sta...

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MILLER: Ethics reform remains on the backburner despite Madigan conviction – Muddy River News Illinois House Speaker Chris Welch didn’t sound all that enthused about passing any new ethics reforms during an interview last week. In the wake of former House Speaker Michael Madigan’s conviction o...

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MILLER: Illinois looking to fill $3.2 billion budget hole – Muddy River News Gov. JB Pritzker has “revised” his remarks about not raising taxes to balance the budget. “It’s very important that we live within our means in this state, and that we not resort to tax increases as a...

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MILLER: No easy fix for state pension issue – Muddy River News The Illinois legislature’s Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability recently released an eye-popping actuarial analysis of a union-backed pension reform plan. The analysis concluded tha...

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MILLER: Madigan's dealing with Solis could be the fed's trump card – Muddy River News Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s longtime law firm partner Vincent “Bud” Getzendanner testified in Madigan’s defense against numerous federal charges last week. One of the main themes o...

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MILLER: State looking to parcel out education funding – Muddy River News The Democratic legislative leaders and the governor agreed to squirrel away $260 million in lump-sum appropriations to various state agencies last spring. But now some groups are figuring out that a b...

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MILLER: All quiet on the Veto Session front – Muddy River News Just about nothing happened in the first week of veto session in the House and the Senate. The Democratic legislative leaders are still trying to figure out what their members want to do in the wake o...

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