Barbara Flynn Currie

The Illinois House chamber empties after the spring legislative session ended in 2017.

Op-ed: Illinois should expand the earned income tax credit

December 22, 2020 at 1:35 p.m.

Crafting a state budget is the legislature's most challenging task. And it's the most important. How to fund hospitals, schools, mental health services, public transit? We rely on our budgets...

Why we sued the phone company

August 22, 2021 at 2:40 a.m.

More than six years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Bush administration remains committed to using the specter of those attacks (and other possible new attacks) as...

Illinoisans who most need tax break

August 21, 2021 at 11:36 p.m.

The Tribune has it right. In the face of a possible recession, "the most reliable approach is to provide cash directly to individuals -- particularly lower-income people, who are the...

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