07.14.2009 12:30 pm
Post-Dispatch Springfield Bureau
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Several hundred state-goverment and human-services workers are downstairs in the Illinois state Capital rotunda right now, loudly rallying once again for a tax increase to prevent state budget cuts and worker layoffs.
Once again it appears that their…
06.23.2009 11:33 am
Post-Dispatch Springfield Bureau
UPDATE: 1 p.m.: The crowd here has swelled to the point that Capitol security has barred more people from entering the building. Quinn addressed the demonstrators a little while ago, in a short, passionate speech loaded with the familiar Abraham Lincoln references…
05.30.2009 4:02 pm
Post-Dispatch Springfield Bureau
UPDATE, 9:50 p.m. — The full Senate approved the 5 percent income tax tonight. Still looks unlikely that the House will touch any tax hike like this.
UPDATE, 5 p.m. — This passed the committee on a partisan vote, and could be…
