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Naperville’s Pulse in Springfield – Session wrap up
I try to keep these columns positive, but putting a positive spin on the legislature’s recent four-day session is a challenge. Bad votes and...
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Naperville’s Pulse in Springfield – A Return to a New Normal
Everyone is asking when things will get back to normal in Illinois.
We’re tired of the isolation in our homes and we want to go...
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Naperville’s Pulse in Springfield – Naperville shines in times of crisis
Above / Right here at home, the Downtown Naperville Alliance and the Naperville Area Chamber of Commerce organized Naperville Helps!, an initiative that funds...
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Naperville’s Pulse in Springfield – Phantom money has no place in Illinois Budget
The 2021 Fiscal Year begins on June 1, 2020. The vote on the Constitutional Amendment to change Illinois from a flat tax state to...
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Naperville’s Pulse in Springfield – Another Task Force, Another Failure
At the end of the 2019 spring session, the General Assembly passed Senate Bill 1932 to create the Property Tax Relief Task Force. Sounds...
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Naperville’s Pulse in Springfield – More Taxes, Few Reforms
At the end of January, Governor Pritzker will deliver the annual State of the State Address. I have no doubt he intends to take...
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Naperville’s Pulse in Springfield – A happy season of giving from my family to yours
Above / Illinois State Representative Grant Wehrli is pictured in December 2018 during the dedication of the "Laughing Lincoln" sculpture in Central Park, one...
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Naperville’s Pulse in Springfield – Can police and fire pensions be consolidated?
In a recent survey of the 41st House District, 72 percent of the respondents listed high taxes and the need for pension reform as...
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Naperville’s Pulse in Springfield – Marijuana legalization
The Illinois General Assembly passed legislation in May to legalize the recreational use of marijuana effective January 1, 2020.
The bill, HB 1438, also allows...
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Naperville’s Pulse in Springfield – What some state elected officials are doing with COLA
Hidden in the Illinois State Statutes is a dirty little law that guarantees legislators an automatic annual cost of living adjustment (COLA).
Our State Constitution...
