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2010-04-13
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Illinois got a "B" when it comes to openness about government spending, according to "FOLLOWING THE MONEY: How the 50 States Rate in Providing Online Access to Government Spending Data," released today. |
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2009-10-22
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Mayor Daley’s decision to fill next year’s budget gap with $350 million from the parking meter privatization deal not only ignores long-term budget problems, it borrows from future generations. |
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2009-05-06
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A new Illinois PIRG Education Fund study estimated that over $33,467,910.00 of public money from 100 counties was spent on simple registration implementation and error-correction issues in 2008.
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2008-12-12
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Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s alleged “corruption crime spree”, which landed him in jail on Tuesday morning, is a new low in the culture of corruption that has come to define Illinois politics. |
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2008-09-15
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Following the veto override in the House of Representatives last week, reform groups called on the State Senate to do the same. |
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2006-11-01
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CHICAGO—Fundraising and campaign spending are proving once again to be incredibly accurate predictors of who wins elections according to an analysis of recent Federal Elections Commission (FEC) data for the 2006 congressional primaries released today by Illinois PIRG. |
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CHICAGO—Today the Midwest Democracy Network (MDN—a nonpartisan alliance of 20 civic and public interest groups from Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin—released former U.S. Senator John Edwards' and U.S. Senator Barack Obama's full and unedited responses to a detailed questionnaire on federal political and government reform issues. The questionnaire, sent to all the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates on September 11, covers campaign finance, government ethics, communications policy, election laws, voting rights, and congressional redistricting. |
