"The fact of the matter is, it's about local control," Brady said, "and I don't know why they'd be afraid to trust local elected officials to establish fair contracts and fair wages."

Without a budget in place, Rauner says, the money cannot be distributed.

Now politicians in Kentucky are claiming they have a Constitutional right to receive gifts from lobbyists.

“One can believe both things without contradiction.”

While Citizens United may state that independent expenditures cannot lead to corruption,

In his opinion, Walls writes that “the Constitution does not protect an attempt to influence a public official’s acts through improper means.” (Read Walls' decision here.)

Walters would not address how the savings could be that high if almost all the employees are still being paid and the facilities still have to be maintained.

race-conscious admissions policies could change as a result of its decision in June to revisit a lawsuit challenging a race-conscious admissions policy for undergraduates at the University of Texas at Austin.

Such suspicions have become common among Asian and Asian-American students who believe that selective colleges are either discriminating against them outright or holding them to substantially higher standards than applicants who are black, Hispanic, or Native American.

the state’s Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, which exercises police powers as part of its function of regulating the sale and use of alcohol in Virginia.

an investigation of admissions practices at Princeton University found "no evidence" of discrimination against Asian and Asian-American applicants

not unnecessarily aggressive, a state-police report said.

an issue "written entirely by students of color" in the near future

allowed football and men’s basketball players to be paid deferred compensation of up to $5,000 per year.

Emanuel promised during both of his campaigns to have "the most open, accountable and transparent government that the city of Chicago has ever seen," but the Tribune says the Democrat has repeatedly stonewalled press access.

especially in makerspaces organized by folks from non-STEM disciplines

The regents rejected a request from Israel supporters to adopt the State Department’s definition of anti-Semitism

anything that might offend someone is mentioned

Rather than having to wait to file the application after completing tax returns for the previous year, students and families will be able to use tax information from two years prior.

talent, commitment, and luck play big roles in determining how big your paychecks are

the Oak Brook Village Board voted unanimously to support repealing the prevailing wage, going against the wishes of 40 or so union representatives and workers who attended the board meeting.

the disputes between the two—taxes and workers' comp reform, pensions and prevailing wage, school aid and unemployment compensation—can be worked out by people of goodwill.

a man who, after all, sabotaged his own daughter's aspirations for higher office because he thinks he's entitled to power forever—was not going to roll over.

serves effectively and is endorsed.

Chicagoan Nancy Wade is running as a Green Party candidate.

support for free trade

Lipinski opposed the Affordable Care Act and has worked hard to address its deficiencies

out-of-towners serving as “city alderman.”

a felon serving in municipal office

“The last thing I would see our governor doing is making our pension funds political,” says Hobson. “He understands at his core what pension fund investing is about.”

a Texas firm that plans to invest it in a less-complicated, fixed-income fund

We were paying them fees for putting money in a mattress. . . . Our vision is to be pretty tough on fees.”

Unlike the three other firms that the Rauner appointees voted to terminate, Ullico wasn’t fired for “underperforming” on investment returns

instruct the Illinois State Board of Investment on how to invest taxpayer dollars.”

says the governor’s battle with organized labor had “absolutely” nothing to do with the decision.

In line with Rauner’s anti-organized labor stance, one of the managers the board dumped was Ullico, a union-owned investment firm that lends money to construction projects that agree to hire union labor.

The Republican governor’s appointees to the Illinois State Board of Investment voted to shift $697 million into investments designed to mimic the financial markets’ performance

They replied to the questions we asked in the time frame we had asked.

But the progressive income tax was unconstitutional in the 1930s and it’s still unconstitutional today

Although the constitution allows for a flat rate income tax, it strictly prohibits a graduated, or progressive, income tax.

tax in the wake of a potential Metra shutdown is irresponsible and unfair to the people who have to get in and out of the city for work each day.

Instead of federal mandates, it is incumbent upon local train systems to maintain responsible safety standards that make sense for each locality.

Train systems that do not implement PTC cannot continue to operate after Dec. 31, 2015. Metra officials have repeatedly told the federal government they cannot make all of the necessary adjustments until 2019

The administration's refusal to pay step increases is part of its overall wage freeze plan

plus other costly benefit increases while the Rauner administration is seeking to freeze wages.

Calling state employees "pawns in the political dispute over the state budget," the union is asking Circuit Judge Robert LeChien, among other things, to block the state from laying off 158 employees on Sept. 30 and to continue to pay health insurance claims for state employees and their dependents.

Republicans' trust in the judicial branch could be restored with a landmark ruling more in sync with conservative ideology and policy preferences; one possibility would be in a case on Affirmative Action in college admissions, to be heard in the coming term.

I can’t imagine any of the mostly-white English-speaking protesters standing outside carnicerias and protesting traditional Latin American methods of animal husbandry and slaughter

Or, for that matter, a Latino neighborhood anywhere in New York?

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They believe that many neonatal herpes cases the city attributes to mohels were caused by a family member or a caregiver touching the circumcision wound with a finger or hand

which commonly causes cold sores, is prevalent in more than two-thirds of adults in New York City.

But at the beginning of 2015, under pressure from the ultra-Orthodox community, the administration of New York City’s mayor, Bill de Blasio, announced the city’s intention to revoke the consent form regulation.

Although the cultural politics of race and gender have garnered continual consideration in the discourse examining access and equity,

While his visit was not an open campus forum

McWhorter encourages us to see linguistic structures as nothing more than products of “chance,” and to accept that we are all “mentally alike.”

McWhorter praises Boroditsky and others for elegant and sound experimental design, but says they have resurrected the hypothesis in such a diluted form that their work only serves to show that language barely affects thought at all, as measured cognitively.

Did the opposite genders of “bridge” in German and Spanish, for example, have an effect on the design of bridges in Spain and Germany?

promoting car alternatives

improving housing

a 550-square-foot one-bedroom unit would have to rent for $1,165. Without them, renters could pay $975—saving $190 a month.

the university was worried that eliminating parking requirements in Champaign would make the city too nice.

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is suspicious that campaign contributions may influence Washington Supreme Court’s justices

the Guttmacher Institute surveyed all abortion providers (about 1,700), including Planned Parenthood, and found that 60 percent are in majority-white neighborhoods — and that fewer than one in ten abortion providers are located in neighborhoods where more than half of the residents are black

The most logical solution is to raise the income tax.

than a distantly possible threat to minority voting rights that are already protected in the amendment and by federal law anyway.

A patchwork of court orders and state laws are ensuring that around 80% of state spending is still disbursed. State employees are still getting their salaries and pensions, and recipients of Medicaid, a government health-scheme for the poor, are still getting coverage.

the Republican had abandoned right-to-work as part of his platform. Rauner pushed the issue as he could through the courts, an effort that is still underway

This, of course, disregards that gasoline literally fuels the car, a key component of what makes it work," Rauner wrote

who said in a statement that Arduin had "played an instrumental role in re-establishing sound economic and fiscal principles" in state government.

Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.)

The absence of bathroom breaks and waiting periods between meetings does not change the hours of dialogue with top-level Planned Parenthood executives eager to manipulate abortion procedures to get high-quality baby parts for financially profitable sale.

"experts"

f you look at the timestamp in the lower left-hand corner, it jumps forward by nearly a half-hour (from about 7:46 to 8:18) in just a few seconds.

the University Police Department,

current enforcement is somewhat effective, and devoting more resources to enforcement would further constrain gun access by dangerous people.”

This research demonstrates that current federal and local regulations are having a big effect on the availability of guns to criminals in Chicago,” he adds. “They can’t buy their guns from stores, the way most people do, and are instead largely constrained to making private deals with acquaintances, who may or may not be willing and able to provide what they want.

initially purchased out of state

He and I share a passion around economic empowerment, especially in the black community

Rauner shifted the blame to Democrats who he said have refused to institute his reforms and instead want to discuss revenue options to pay the bills.

And that means you'd better know who the daddy is, and whether or not he can afford that child

to lower income taxes

the powerful speaker of the Illinois House, failed to round up enough votes to override the governor’s veto of an important labor bill

he has been unable to win passage of the major restrictions on labor rights that he has endorsed.

between one man and one woman.

police sources believe that his killing could be gang-related

allow a municipality to impose new pension obligations by a resolution of its governing bod

SPRINGFIELD – Governor Bruce Rauner took action today on the following bills

Here are four suggestions for a great guys’ day in Danville.

The bill increases the transparency of political spending in Illinois by adding a year-round 5 day reporting requirement for Independent Expenditures.

"What's wrong with slavery?"

he SKOS approach allows an application designer to create new properties to capture this distinction, and to declare them as sub-properties of skos:broader:

It has also been suggested that OWL itself could be used to coordinate concepts: ex:bicyclesRepairing a skos:Concept; owl:intersectionOf (ex:bicycles ex:repairing); skos:prefLabel "Bicycles--Repairing"@en.

However the SKOS vocabulary itself does not provide any mechanism for expressing that a given concept consists of a pre-coordination of other concepts

Pre-coordination is done prior to information retrieval, by a KOS maintainer, or by an indexer who is using a KOS

they’ve caused a lot of confusion about what kind of information we access and what we do with it. We apologize for that. We should have done a better job in communicating what these policies mean and how any information you choose to share will – and will not – be used.”

Both Walker and Rubio have signed the Grover Norquist pledge to never raise a single penny of tax revenue ever, under any circumstances.

On June 15, 2004, the NLRB under the George W. Bush administration effectively reversed the previous ruling by a three to two vote.

“There easily could be a female Doctor,” Moffat told SFX magazine last year. “I think the next time might be a female Doctor. I don’t see why not. I think it’s good to do that.”

A tube of anti-cavity toothpaste, MKIC, was found in your possession past its expiration date of 9 April 2015

Other than Tilda Swinton, who wouldn’t do it because she’s too busy anyway.

“But I never, as a female, thought I was being robbed because the Doctor’s a bloke

“As a heterosexual woman, I have no interest in a female Doctor

Doctor Who should never be played by a woman, according to the novelist and comedian AL Kennedy.

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According to this USAToday article, “Automakers have substantially improved the reliability of their vehicles. Although it’s still possible to buy a ‘lemon,’ it’s getting increasingly difficult. Analysts say that most of the major automakers have overcome major quality issues.”

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from academic programs,” he said.

Generally colleges avoid laying off tenured faculty members, and do so only if they're struggling to pay bills.

I support that provision.

employment information”, to “amount of employment income

there are still millions of U.S. residents who lack health insurance, even though the country spends almost double what any other nation does for health care

just clearing the minimum of 305,591 signatures from Ohio voters.

But there's no indication thus far that Oklahoma is likely to espouse that attitude. Earlier this year, Oklahoma and Nebraska officials launched a legal challenge to Colorado's legalization, arguing that it has ushered in a flood of illicit pot across state lines.

He said his group was also keeping an eye on developments in Missouri and Michigan.

he reiterated his longtime support for ending birthright citizenship

most which can be accessed online

Germany is the biggest and most formidable opponent of debt relief, but is also the loudest supporter of keeping the IMF on board.

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t is now likely that Tsipras will call early elections and trigger a realignment of Greek politics.

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Authorizes, but does not require, the use of police body cameras throughout the state.

The Teamsters deal pending final approval puts in place a four-year wage freeze for the state workers it covers and “a new performance incentive program” to award bonuses to high-performing employees.

Rauner must appoint five union leaders to the 13-member labor panel.

"Given that no sale has yet occurred and we have not had an opportunity to evaluate the success and failure of the pilot program, a further extension would be premature," Rauner wrote to lawmakers.

But Rauner said the program should only be extended by four months because that "would account for the delay in the final months of the prior administration."

Rauner again argued that standard went too far in the opposite direction, suggesting the limit instead should be 5 nanograms per milliliter of blood.

saying the measure that lawmakers sent him would let people carry too much pot and sets fines too low.

“Ferrell kicked the victim’s car as she passed causing nearly $5,000 in damage.”

act: Illinois has had a higher unemployment rate than neighboring states

Fact: We now rank 48th in the nation.

many of the reforms that were so effective in Michigan are included in Gov. Bruce Rauner’s legislative agenda for Illinois. Michigan enacted collective-bargaining reforms along with Right to Work,

And Michigan property taxes are, on average, $750 per year lower than Illinois’.

data deposition is limited to researchers working at the same institution,

has had to make a painful policy U-turn.

particularly in Germany.

has defended the way the show depicts sex.

In some cases, like apparel, where there are fit and sizing differences, it makes sense.

which requires coverage to be offered to a smaller group or none at all,

animations and moving pictures

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Just converting a CSV file to a set of RDF triples and linking them to another set of triples does not necessarily make the data more (re)usable to humans or machines.”

for certain counties’ annual budget proposals.

The institution also turned over responsibility for off-campus patrols to the city police.

"This might happen in Afghanistan. People don’t get shot for a traffic stop."

“It allows the company to identify workers based on a snapshot,” Ms. Slavkin Corzo said.

While corporations have advanced payroll systems that would seem to make it relatively simple to calculate a median wage, they said that the rule required companies to make new calculations for workers across the globe.

the ratio will no doubt be seized upon by those who believe that the wages of moderate earners have not grown fast enough.

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"I understand this crowd. If we can't beat them, it doesn't matter," he said.

"I am fluent in Clinton-speak," he said at the Voters First Forum in New Hampshire. Graham then equated Bill Clinton's Monica Lewinsky scandal to Hillary Clinton's email scandal.

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“My dream ticket, however, would have Sarah at the top of the ticket!” said John Gregory, of Oregon.

This was really about protecting the taxpayers of the state.” Laurel Patrick, a spokeswoman for his office, emailed that taxpayers will get $3 in income tax revenue for every dollar the state spends.

Calling for 100,000 more cops on the street and promising to “end welfare as we know it” positioned Clinton to win back Reagan Democrats that had fled the party.

Yes, but it's not just America. This is the damn problem that we face. We are spending more money on the military than the next nine countries behind us.

I want to make a turn to foreign policy

The first thing that I want to do is overturn the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, which is a total disaster.

In terms of prejudice, yeah, of course that's an extra issue. Is there racism in America? Of course there is. We've seen an explosion of that recently.

I want to know why the rich get richer and everybody else gets poorer. I want to know why the United States is the only major country on Earth that doesn't provide health care to all of its people, the only major country that doesn't have family and medical leave so that women can stay home with their kids when they have a baby.

Because the Democrats, to a much too great degree, are separated from working families.

the Employee Free Choice Act that says if 50 [percent of] workers in an agency plus one sign a union card, they have a union. And I believe in that.

Las Vegas, you have people who are cleaning toilets, who are making beds, who are making $35,000 or $40,000 a year and have good health-care benefits

If you're a white high school graduate, it's 33 percent, Hispanic 36 percent, African American 51 percent. You think we should open the borders and bring in a lot of low-wage workers, or do you think maybe we should try to get jobs for those kids?

Of course. That's a right-wing proposal, which says essentially there is no United States. ...

Open borders? No, that's a Koch brothers proposal

The argument people make about single-payer is that a tremendous amount of health-care innovation around the world is other countries freeloading on the amount of money Americans pay to induce innovation in the pharmaceutical sector, in the medical device sector.

what Germany and many other countries are doing, and say, "You want to go to college? You have the ability to go to college? You have the desire to go to college? Public colleges and universities will be tuition-free," because education must be a right of all people.

A democratic socialist.

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“unemployment rate of young workers decreases with age and educational attainment.”

It stands to reason that unemployment rates for high school graduates not enrolled in further schooling would be higher for the 17 to 20 year age group than it would be for the 16 to 24 year old group

the unemployment rate for this age group was 24.8 percent for black people, 16.8 percent for Hispanic people, and 12.6 percent for white people.

The unemployment rates, as calculated by EPI, are still high — but not nearly as high as Sanders claims.

You think we should open the borders and bring in a lot of low-wage workers, or do you think maybe we should try to get jobs for those kids?

Limits Terms of Certain Collective Bargaining Contracts

Prohibits an individual from taking action against a law enforcement officer based on the officer’s compliance or noncompliance with the provisions of this bill (Sec. 5).

“reasonably”

whites who didn’t graduate high school is, likewise, six times the rate for whites who did? Is that not due to economic inequality?

That is a luxury blacks in this country don’t enjoy, and if that’s not due to “economic inequality,” what is it due to?

Yankees fans hate Red Sox fans. Hardhats hate hippies.

not as likely as a black man or a black woman.

He hates the Harvard WASPs who theorize about structural racism

But can that explain why Bland ended up dead? I doubt it, because there are a lot of people the proverbial hick Texas bigot cop doesn’t like.

racial animosity. I can’t think of what else she could mean. The new generation of radicals on Twitter like to talk about “structural” racism or “institutional” racism — but behind the verbal bravado, what they, too, are really referring to is racial animosity.

Just as the story of English imperialism is merely a history of how Ireland — even fifty years after winning independence — found itself the poorest country in all of capitalist Europe.

But to say so is merely to recount how one particular form of economic inequality came about.

Nor does anyone dream of analyzing serfdom in Russia as primarily a problem of race relations, even though the Russian nobility invented fictions of their innate, natural superiority over the serfs as preposterous as any devised by American racists.

English against the Irish as a problem in race relations

racial inequality is merely a symptom of economic inequality? He’s not going to say that. Nobody would.