Kurt Granberg, poster boy for retirement planning. (Post-Dispatch file photo)
During his 22 years in the Illinois legislature, Kurt Granberg became something of an expert on the state’s severe underfunding of its five public pension funds. “People didn’t pay attention,” he told…
Gov. Pat Quinn
Last week, when Illinois’ second-most powerful state official proposed hiking income taxes by 50 percent to close an $11.6 billion budget deficit, we were heartened by the response of Illinois’ most powerful state official:
“I think Illinoisans want to…
Time to downsize campaign cash.
Wafting over the impeachment and removal from office last week of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was the faint odor of hypocrisy. With his brazen and profane greed, the now-former governor may have exposed Illinois’ culture of…
