Editorial: Real tax reform for unfunded mandates
Illinois lawmakers face a constitutional amend ment proposal SJRCA 76 to ban unfunded state mandates on local governments unless funding is provided. The plan would require mandates to include funding or pass with a three f ifths vote, excluding crime legislation and federal mandates. The author argues current tax caps are another form of mandate and urges passage for meaningful reform.
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Illinois Municipal League
League
Illinois
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General Assembly
Legion of Lawyers
New Center for Arts and Technology Begins Serving Area
The Star highlights Governors State University Center for Arts and Technology opening season offering diverse performances from the Vermeer Quartet to Ruth Mandrell and Arturo Sandoval. Other venues include Moraine Valley CC, Illinois Theatre Center, Theatre at the Center for Visual and Performing Arts, and Candlelight Playhouse. Readers are urged to explore local venues beyond the city.
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First Look
the Star
Arts and Entertainment
Center For Arts and Technology
Governors State University
Royal Winnipeg Ballet
GSU
University Park
Jimmy Buffet
New World Music Theatre
Tinley Park
Bill Cosby
Star Plaza
Merrillville
Joliet Rialto Square Theatre
Vermeer
Charlie Daniels
Louise Mandrell
Roy Clark
Chicago Jazz Ensemble
Arturo Sandoval
Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra
Moraine Valley Community College
Palos Hills
River North Dance Company
Illinois Theatre Center
Park Forest
First Spring Flowers Rise Amid Midwest Winter Quiet
A Sunday forest walk narrates desolate browns giving way to spring signs with trilliums spring beauty trout lily and may apples. A five year old tracks new growth while a naturalist warns against picking plants as sun warms a creekside trail and a sapsucker hawks overhead. Spring’s resilience and earth’s timetable emerge through patient observation and sketches.
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Georgia
Florida
the Star
W.C. Fields
Letter writers praise tax relief and urge informed voting
Readers celebrate unemployment tax relief for small businesses and urge support for the measure. They praise positive school achievement coverage, warn of national decline, and call for voter participation in the upcoming presidential election, arguing for tolerance, traditional values, and scrutiny of education and redistricting.
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John T. Doody Jr
Homewood
Edgar
Rep
Doody
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