Miller: Rauner attempting to frame issues his own way
Gov. Bruce Rauner regularly attempts to "go over the heads" of the news media and talk directly to the public without any journalistic filters. Usually for people in his particular...
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Miller: We either get a deal by June 30 or implode
As we've all seen over the past several months, Gov. Bruce Rauner is adamantly refusing to provide any help whatsoever to Chicago, which is struggling mightily under the weight of...
Miller: Rauner could have accepted 2-year property tax freeze
House Speaker Michael Madigan was his usual self during the final week of the General Assembly's spring session, passing bills to make one point or another, but not actually accomplishing...
Miller: Democrats need to come to terms with property taxes
A new statewide poll finds that strong opposition to an income tax hike to solve the state's budget problems significantly eases when the tax increase is coupled with a property...
Miller: Senate Democrats’ refusal to pass a ‘real’ property tax freeze will be a gift for Rauner
Democrats have been privately grumbling for a while now that Gov. Bruce Rauner isn't truly interested in good faith negotiations on a balanced budget with economic reforms to end the...
Miller: Some people just don’t know how to laugh at themselves
The thin-skinned, strong-arm Statehouse partisanship of the past two and a half years reached out and infected the Illinois Conference of Women Legislators' annual fundraising gala last week. COWL is...
Miller: Maybe voters will yearn for someone who can work with Springfield
Illinois has elected just two wealthy people to major statewide office in the last 20 years: Former U.S. Sen. Peter Fitzgerald and Gov. Bruce Rauner. Both candidates won because they...
Miller: Rauner, Madigan are most stubborn men on Earth
In normal times, a 40-minute, late-April meeting to talk about the budget between a governor and the House Speaker would be so routine that it would likely go unnoticed by...
Miller: Illinois has 5 public universities with junk bond credit ratings
Congratulations, everybody. Illinois now has five public universities with junk bond credit ratings. That has to be some kind of record. Recently, S&P Global Ratings lowered the credit score of...
Miller: Rauner and his team were tuning up for the big show
As you know by now, Gov. Bruce Rauner recently toured the state for two days. He denied that the tour had anything to do with the 2018 election, but it...