Showing posts with label Illinois. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Illinois. Show all posts

Sunday, June 7, 2015

Employers Have Rights, Too

June 07, 2015 Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce , Illinois 0 Comments
Concealed Carry, Marijuana Laws Raise Questions For Employers

By Chris Dettro, Jun. 6, 2015, The State Journal Register

Two relatively new Illinois laws may cause unexpected headaches for businesses, but The Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce has scheduled a seminar intended to help ease the pain.
The state's concealed carry gun law is already more than a year old, but its medical marijuana pilot program is just getting started.

Attorneys with the statewide law firm Heyl Royster last year started presenting seminars on concealed carry and how it could affect both employers and employees.

Chrissie Peterson of Heyl Royster's Peoria office said businesses have reacted responsibly to the concealed carry law and have placed the appropriate signs on their doors if they don't want to allow guns.

"Where you have problems is when a building owner is of one opinion and the person who leases from them is of another," she said. "The law is that the property owner gets to make the decision."

Peterson, Brian Smith of Heyl Royster's Urbana office, and Theresa Powell, managing partner of its Springfield office, will make up the panel for a two-hour discussion June 24 on "Concealed Carry, Medical Marijuana: What you Need to Know."

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Thursday, May 28, 2015

"indicted for alleged illegal cash withdrawals"

May 28, 2015 Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert , Illinois 0 Comments
Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert Indicted By Federal Grand Jury

Reuters / John Gress 

By Paul Kane, Mike DeBonis and Mark Berman, May 28, 2015, Washington Post

YORKVILLE, Ill. — J. Dennis Hastert, the longest-serving Republican speaker in the history of the U.S. House, was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury on charges that he violated banking laws in a bid to pay $3.5 million to an unnamed person to cover up “past misconduct.”

Hastert, who has been a high-paid lobbyist in Washington since his 2007 retirement from Congress, schemed to mask more than $950,000 in withdrawals from various ac­counts in violation of federal banking laws that require the disclosure of large cash transactions, according to a seven-page indictment delivered by a grand jury in Chicago.

The indictment did not spell out the exact nature of the “prior misconduct” by Hastert, but it noted that before entering state and federal politics in 1981, Has­tert served for more than a decade as a teacher and wrestling coach at Yorkville High School in Illinois.

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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

What, no "wild West"?

January 13, 2015 2nd Amendment , Chicago 0 Comments
Concealed Carry Law Working Fine

News-Gazette, Jan. 11, 2015

Well, it's been nearly a year now since Illinois State Police started issuing permits to citizens who met the established criteria. The result? Local authorities say concealed carry in Illinois has been a non-event — in other words, no problem.

The apocalyptic rhetoric and doomsday predictions have turned out to be so much hot air. So also have predictions that anywhere from 300,000 to 400,000 Illinoisans would apply for a permit and start packing heat. So far, the number is around 90,000. The number will grow, but it's a long way to 300,000 concealed carry licenses.

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Sunday, November 2, 2014

Is there a connection?

November 02, 2014 Barack Obama , Central America 0 Comments
Obama's Border Policy Fueled Enterovirus Epidemic--Evidence Shows 

Neil Munro, Oct. 31, 2014, Daily Caller 

The deadly EV-D68 enterovirus epidemic, which struck thousands of kids this fall, was likely propelled through America by President Barack Obama’s decision to allow tens of thousands of Central Americans across the Texas border, according to a growing body of genetic and statistical evidence.

The evidence includes admissions from top health officials that the epidemic included multiple strains of the virus, and that it appeared simultaneously in multiple independent locations.

The question can be settled if federal researchers study the genetic fingerprint of the EV-D68 viruses that first hit kids in Colorado, Missouri and Illinois to see if they are close relatives to the EV-D68 viruses found in Central America.

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Sunday, March 23, 2014

"Illinois Credit Rating: State's Worst-In-Nation Rating Costing Taxpayers Millions" --And they're raising taxes??!!!

March 23, 2014 'Millionaire Tax , Illinois 0 Comments
Sarah Burnett, Jun. 25, 2013, Huffington Post
CHICAGO -- Like your cousin who doesn't pay his bills on time and squanders money he doesn't have, Illinois is paying the price – in both cash and reputation – for years of ignored warnings about its pension crisis, the worst in the nation.
Largely because of its unfunded retirement plans, Illinois has replaced longtime bottom-dweller California as having the lowest credit rating of any state. So when Illinois tries to borrow money, it faces the same problem as the spendthrift cousin: far higher interest rates.

The state's financial failings are so well-known, they have inspired a name on Wall Street – the "Illinois effect," a reference to the fact that cities, universities and other bond-issuing entities here must pay more in interest, even if they are responsible spenders.

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