Including the Chicago Tribune, which recently editorialized about the state’s dire position Illinois legislators fumble repeated attempts to send a balanced budget to Gov. Bruce Rauner; while the stack of Illinois’ unpaid bills climbs by the minute; while our leaders prioritize politics over poli...
Two other ROT bills that have passed both houses would require direct pay permit holders to conduct an annual review of their purchase activity and would revise Illinois’ level the playing field rules. Tennessee: The Department of Revenue recently published Notice 24-08 to summarize the sales ...
Dollar Tree Stores Inc. is a nationwide chain of discount stores, many of them offering every item for $1 before tax. Operating stores under the brands Dollar Tree, Dollar Bills, and Family Dollar, Dollar Treecame under fire in 2021when it announced that prices for most items would rise to...
The following tax and revenue bills were recently passed by the Illinois General Assembly and are now before Governor Pritzker for signature: HB 3144 (the Governor's “grocery tax”) would repeal (eff. Jan. 1, 2026) the state’s 1% tax on groceries and authorize municipalities and counties ...
Senate Bill 2111 had a lot of support with 48 "yays" to only 4 "nay" votes on the floor of the Illinois Senate. The bills has moved onto the Illinois House of Representatives where it gained traction picking up Representative Kam Buckner as a sponsor and already being assigned to the Tra...
House Bill 3178 passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. *Sen. Erica Harriss… So far, I have filed to carry several House Bills. House Bill 57 gives residents in care facilities the right to name someone they trust, such as a family member or friend, as an essential support pe...
Other states could add marriage equality to the books in 2013. Marriage equality bills have been recently introduced in the Rhode Island legislature. Legislators in Minnesota have pledged to push for it soon, and Delaware's governor has said he expects the matter to be taken up in that state...
recently proposed limits to restrictive covenants. New Jersey's proposed change would invalidate any restrictive covenants entered into by a worker entitled to unemployment benefits from his or her former employer.25 Like the Massachusetts bill, neither the Minnesota nor the New Jersey b...
Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about something a friend of mine, Deval Patrick, once said to his constituents when he was governor of Massachusetts. He said, "Insist from us and from each other a modicum of civility as the condition for serving you." This is what he told voters....
PS: I recently learned that the little rocker bouncer, called the ShooFly Teeter Totter was made by the Delphos Bending Company in the mid-50s. A barrel hoop maker, Delphos began manufacturing children’s furniture in 1934. By 1951 it was the world’s largest manufacturer of kids’ furnitur...