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Illinois Comptroller Calls For Fiscal Discipline To Maintain Reduced Bill Backlog [AUDIO]
— NPR Illinois | Cantu, D. — Listen to the interview. Illinois has reduced its bill backlog to just under $4 billion — a far cry from the nearly $17 billion high seen just after the state’s two-year budget impasse presided over by former Gov. Bruce Rauner. But the state’s top financial officer, Comptroller Susana…
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Editorial: Smaller backlog is welcome news
— Quad-City Times | Editorial Board — View the article. Remember, a few years back, when Illinois was regularly letting its bills stack up. Like a freeloader with big spending appetites —but without the income to match — the state was regularly letting the bills from social service agencies, health care facilities and myriad other…
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Editorial: Is Illinois no longer a deadbeat? Not exactly…
— Chicago Tribune | Editorial Board — Listen to the article. Good news has been all but nonexistent when it comes to the abysmal state of Illinois’ finances. The state’s pension shortfall stands at a hard-to-fathom $141 billion. Its bond rating continues to hover near junk status. And it was only a few years ago,…
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State’s unpaid bill backlog shrinks to $3.5 billion — and in Illinois, that’s called ‘remarkable’
— Chicago Sun-Times | Hinton, R. — The drop in the backlog — which, at its highest point, stood at $16.7 billion in 2017 — means Illinois can pay its bills as they come in and moves closer to paying off its debts within a normal 30-day cycle. Illinois’ backlog of unpaid bills is down…
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The clock is ticking at last on paycheck shenanigans in Springfield
— Chicago Tribune | Eric Zorn — Listen to this article. State Comptroller Susana Mendoza said the needle on her shenanigans detector jumped dramatically shortly after the resignation of state Sen. Martin Sandoval in late November 2019. The Southwest Side senator, who died a little more than a year later of COVID-19, was at the…
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Op-ed: Susana Mendoza: Ex-lawmakers trying to claw back rejected raises are wasting taxpayer money
— Chicago Tribune Op-ed | Mendoza, S. — Listen to this article. On behalf of all Illinois taxpayers, I’d like to ask our state’s “Million Dollar Man” to give up his crusade for even more taxpayer money. State taxpayers paid former state Sen. Mike Noland $738,000 during his 10 years as a state legislator. Now…
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Editorial: Pull plug on legislators’ windfall pay scam
— Champaign News Gazette | Editorial Board — Public policy that, by design, institutionalizes abuse of taxpayers ought to be repealed. How’s this for ridiculous? Illinois taxpayers are/were on the hook for the full monthly February salaries of three members of the Illinois House who represented the same 22nd District in Chicago. Yes, it’s true, fully…
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Editorial: One month’s pay for three days’ work?
— Kankakee Daily Journal | Editorial Board — The recent comings and goings in the Illinois House of Representatives is nothing short of a debacle. To catch you up, long-tenured former Speaker Michael Madigan resigned his 22nd District post. He hand-picked Edward Guerra Kodatt to take his seat in the House. Three days after he was…
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Editorial: Our View, Mendoza initiative a smart move
— The State Journal-Register | Editorial Board — When Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza champions new legislation or implements a new program, we usually find ourselves thinking: How is this common-sense idea not already in place? It was that way with her quest to end “off-shoring,” the practice governors of both political parties used to make themselves…
