UPDATE, 10:20 p.m. - This bill hasn’t been taken up in the House, and is apparently dead.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - An Illinois House committee this morning approved a tax hike bill that would boost the state’s income tax rate to 5…

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Gov. Pat Quinn, who has so far side-stepped questions asking specifically if Illinois could see an increase in its income or sales taxes, came a little bit closer to giving reporters a real answer.

“There’s no question we…

While the rest of us political junkies spend Tax Return Day contemplating who will report what in their campaign-donation reports also due today, some of opponents of the Iraq War plan to spend lunch time downtown conducting what they call a “penny…

Multi-millionaire Rex Sinquefield, joined by aides and two professors who’ve done studies for his Show-Me Institute, stopped by the Post-Dispatch this morning to lay out some of his views to members of the paper’s Editorial Page.

Yours truly and cohort Jake…