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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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?
Posted inFollow-Up, Investigation
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?
Posted inPress Release
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.
Posted inFollow-Up, Investigation, Newsroom
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.
Posted inAnalysis, Perspective, Policy
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.
Posted inAnalysis, Perspective, Policy
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.
Posted inFollow-Up, Investigation, Newsroom
Gray Area
Gray & Co., the main adviser to the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District’s billion-dollar pension fund, is under SEC investigation. Should Chicago taxpayers be worried?
Posted inAnalysis, Perspective, Policy
Dominos Falling Across Illinois Government
Students of the Cold War remember the “domino theory,” the prevailing argument for American military involvement in Vietnam.