Miller: Currie to step down after 40 years in the House
Late last Thursday night I was chasing a story about the rumored retirement of state Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie, Illinois' first female House majority leader, when I got a text...
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Column: Illinois school funding bill is pretty good
Lost in much of the hoopla over the process of passing school funding reform through the Illinois General Assembly is the fact that this is a pretty darned good and...
Miller: A solution to funding Illinois public schools has eluded everyone until now
It's been clear for decades that the way Illinois funds its public schools has been wrong-headed. But finding a solution has eluded everyone who has tried. Until now. Gov. Jim...
Miller: Rauner’s political opponents will be tempted to blame lagging job figures on budget impasse
After years of harshly bad-mouthing the state's economy, Gov. Bruce Rauner has pivoted in the past couple of weeks as the campaign season has heated up. "I'm proud since I...
Miller: Education funding reform bill could define Rauner
Gov. Bruce Rauner has said for the past several days that he's open to just about any sort of compromise in order to get school funding reform signed into law....
Column: We shouldn’t use education as a hammer to eliminate TIFs
The education funding reform bill that passed the House and Senate in May and was finally sent to Gov. Bruce Rauner's desk in July was the product of four years...
Column: Preventing a veto override is Rauner’s main effort
During the lead-up to the recent special legislative session over the state budget and a tax hike, Gov. Bruce Rauner's staff studied whether their boss had the power to force...
Miller: The departure of Rauner’s political lieutenant is a potential disaster
In the end, Mike "Z" Zolnierowicz had only one choice. Gov. Bruce Rauner's top political lieutenant, the man everyone calls "Z" who was most responsible for winning the 2014 Republican...
Miller: Anti-tax group essentially weaponized its Facebook page against lawmakers
After Gov. Bruce Rauner hired Illinois Policy Institute president Kristina Rasmussen's as his new chief of staff, I reached out to one of the House Republicans who voted to override...
Miller: The legislature needs another good luck ceremony
After years of ugly gridlock and weeks of groups and political leaders whipping up an already disgusted populace over a 1.2 percentage point income tax increase, lots of legislators were...