State faces small-business pain from delayed state payments
Small providers face dozens of cents to several dollars owed as state payments lag. Vogler Ford and its four NAPA stores in Carbondale, Murphy’sboro, Herrin and Marion await about $25,000. other vendors note late fees and sporadic payments. IDNR and health providers also report slow reimbursements, with stimulus funds exhausted and reforms shifting drug payments toward generics.
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Vogler Ford
Carbondale
Dennis Rathjen
Vogler
Rathjen
Napa Auto Parts
Murphysboro
Herrin
Marion
Secretary of State
Roy Walker
Makanda
Angie Walker
Illinois late bills cost taxpayers billions in penalties and interest
Illinois faces an 8.3 billion budget gap by 2012 as backloged state bills accrue 62.3 million in interest since the prior years. Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka cites late payments and extended deadlines, noting suppliers like Spoon River Home Health Services and Malcolm Eaton Enterprises suffer added costs while vendors await funds and banks hesitate to extend credit.
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Judy Baar Topinka
Illinois
Topinka
Indiana
Wisconsin
Spoon River Home Health Services
Brian Platt
Spoon River
Platt
Freeport
Malcolm Eaton Enterprises
Stephenson
Winnebago
Julie Hilliger
Malcolm Eaton
Pat Quinn
Kelly Kraft
Heather Steans
Chicago
Senate Appropriations Committee
Hilliger
Bob Thieman
Illinois Association of Community Home Care Providers
Community Home Environmental, Learning Project
Decatur
Diane Drew
Thieman
Clinton seeks role of Afghanistan's neighbors
Secretary Clinton urged regional states in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan to help reintegrate Afghanistan into regional trade. She pitched a new Silk Road linking economies north and south and east and west, calling for freer trade and reform. She pressed leaders on human rights, media and religious freedoms, warning against measures that push legitimate religion underground.
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Tashkent
Afghanistan
Central Asia
Clinton
Dushanbe
Tajikistan
Uzbekistan
Emomali Rakhmon
Partic
Ular
U.S
Islam Karimov
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Illinois Department of Natural Resources
Steinbach
IDNR
Joyce Fogleman
J & S Professional
West Frankfort
Bill Steinbach
Barrett, Twomey, Broom, Hughes and Hoke, LLP
Fogleman
Franklin County
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Informa
Southern Illinois Healthcare
Southern
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