matt murphy

We've talked a whole lot on the show about the Governor's troubled anti-violence program, called the Neighborhood Recovery Initiative. Ostensibly the effort was designed to help combat the violence problem in Chicago and Cook County, but it more and more appears that it was $55 million in slush fund dollars to help the Governor win re-election...

Jim Anderson -- Illinois Radio Network Illinois Senate Republicans are criticizing the directors of state agencies for trying to make the case for extending the income tax increase. “I refer to it the Parade of Horribles,”  says State Sen...

Jim Anderson -- Illinois Radio Network A state lawmaker is looking at Plan B, in case the pension restructuring enacted last year is struck down in court. The state must find a way to keep pension benefits from growing, because it’ll never be able to come up with the money to fulfill its promises, says State Sen...