The big pension story last week was Springfield’s long-overdue passage of a comprehensive reform plan that includes a fiscal fix and some key anti-abuse provisions.
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WQAD Report: Private Employees Receive Public Pensions
BGA’s Emily Miller weighs in on pension loophole.
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City Hall In For A Major Reform
Question: What proves, beyond any reasonable doubt, that Chicago aldermen need a financial watchdog to help them analyze an administration’s mega-buck spending, borrowing and contracting proposals?
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Dorothy’s Deed, Done Dirt Cheap
Campaign donor gives Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown’s husband a building worth $100,000. Why? And why didn’t Brown disclose the freebie as apparently required?
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Springfield Citizens Breakfast
BGA President and CEO Andy Shaw spoke at the Citizens Club of Springfield’s Policy Breakfast on Friday, Nov. 22 at the Hoogland Center for the Arts.
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More Dredging On Pension Adviser
Spending roughly three hours at a public board meeting of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Retirement Fund, listening to various financial reports, is about as dry as it gets.
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The Challenge Of Watching And Working With Government
Here’s the inherent dilemma that keeps me up at night as the head of a full-service anti-corruption watchdog organization: How to hold elected officials accountable, and critique their policies, and still get them to support our legislative agenda.
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Dominos Falling Across Illinois Government
Students of the Cold War remember the “domino theory,” the prevailing argument for American military involvement in Vietnam.
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BGA Joins Union League Club of Chicago To Call For Hearing On Privatization Transparency Ordinance
Today the Better Government Association joined the Union League Club of Chicago, Alderman Rod Sawyer and his fellow colleagues in the Chicago City Council to support a complete, fair and prompt hearing of the full Council of the Privatization Transparency and Accountability Ordinance.