SPRINGFIELD, IL – 30,000 College Illinois families will now have more transparency regarding the investments that are held by the tuition guarantee program, thanks to legislation sponsored by State Sen. Matt Murphy (R-Palatine).
“As we continue to add even more ‘sunshine’ into state government, sometimes programs like College Illinois! are overlooked, and with the financial issues that have plagued the program, it was way past time to bring the investment portfolio into the Open Meetings Act,” Murphy said. “We have audit after audit that have shown the program is in significant trouble and we must ensure that the College Illinois! contractual obligations are met with the 30,000 investment families.”
Murphy’s legislation, House Bill 3923 follows numerous findings by the Auditor General that show questionable investment practices on behalf on the program. As of March 2012, the program held more than $1.25 billion in investments and a funding ratio of approximately 70 percent. In part because of past questionable investments, College Illinois! contracts are no longer being offered to the public, as lawmakers work to ensure that current obligations are upheld.
HB 3923 has passed both chambers and awaits the Governor’s signature.
The video by Free Market America, that illuminates environmental extremism as an economic suicide pact, touches on attitudes that go far beyond the environmental agenda — exposing environmentalism as a tool of oppression, not a goal with the intent of saving the environment.
If I wanted America to fail …
To follow, not lead; to suffer, not prosper; to despair, not dream — I’d start with energy.
I’d cut off America’s supply of cheap, abundant energy. I couldn’t take it by force. So, I’d make Americans feel guilty for using the energy that heats their homes, fuels their cars, runs their businesses, and powers their economy.
I’d make cheap energy expensive, so that expensive energy would seem cheap.
I would empower unelected bureaucrats to all-but-outlaw America’s most abundant sources of energy. After banning its use in America, I’d make it illegal for American companies to ship it overseas.
Thousands marched Chicago on May Day in what will likely be a busy month in the windy city. The NATO Summit is set to take place on May 20-21st and attract 10,000 attendees, as well as scores of protestors from around the world.
Former 60′s anti-war activist William “Bill” Ayers was among those protesting in Chicago on Tuesday in a march that passed the site of the Haymarket Massacre in 1886. Ayers is a retired professor of education reform at the University of Illinois at Chicago and author of multiple books, including “Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Anti-War Activist.” He co-founded the Weather Underground, a self-described communist revolutionary group that conducted a campaign of bombing public buildings during the 1960s and 1970s. Ayers was involved in the bombings of New York City Police Department headquarters in 1970, the United States Capitol building in 1971, and the Pentagon in 1972, as he reported in his 2001 book, Fugitive Days. Ayers was a fugitive, but charges against him were dropped in 1974. He is the son of Thomas G. Ayers, who was Chairman and CEO of Commonwealth Edison from 1973 to 1980.
Video from upper floor in downtown Chicago on May 1, 2012.
Civil rights activist, protest organizer, and Gay Liberation Network founder Andy Thayer: Chicago police force has a world class reputation for violence.
Chicago Principles
• Our solidarity will be based on respect for a political diversity within the struggle for social, economic and environmental justice. As individuals and groups, we may choose to engage in a diversity of tactics and plans of action but are committed to treating each other with respect and working towards a common goal of peace and justice.
• As we plan our actions and tactics, we will take care to maintain appropriate separations of time and space between divergent tactics.
• We oppose any state repression of dissent, including surveillance, infiltration, disruption, limiting our action to “free speech zones,” and violence, or attempts to divide our movement through the conscious creation of divisions regarding tactics, organization, strategies, and alliances.
• Any debates or criticisms will stay internal to the movement, avoiding any public or media denunciations of fellow activists and events.
chicagomassaction.org — Chicago home of Midwest AntiWar Mobilization and Coalition Against NATO/G8. March & Rally: Sunday, May 20th, 2012. A rally is at Petrillo Bandshell at the corner of Columbus & Jackson at Noon. The march steps off at 2:00pm and will end within sight and sound of the summit at McCormick Place.
Federal security patrols and protesters are expected to start showing up on the streets of Chicago on Tuesday, May 1, 2012.
‘May Day’ protests will begin coincidentally as security in the Loop increases in the “Red Zone” — an area bounded by Adams Street, States Street, Harrison Street and Franklin Street.
Will Close Loophole That Allows Unions To Fund Campaigns Of Politicians Who Negotiate Their Contracts
SPRINGFIELD, IL–In an effort to further reduce the conflict of interest between politicians and special interests doing business with their offices, legislation was introduced to prevent government employee unions from donating funds to candidates who may end up negotiating with them for raises and increased benefits.
The legislation, SB 2988, sponsored by State Senator Matt Murphy (R-Palatine), was developed in conjunction with the Illinois Chamber of Commerce and Americans for Prosperity, a free-market advocacy group.
Chicago residents and owners of the Library Tower condo building — a 17-story building at 520 South State Street (between Congress and Harrison) — are being advised to leave their residence and live at an alternate site during the NATO Summit from May 19 through May 21, 2012.
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