City of DeKalb, a self-health insurer is successful in withholding names of council members who receive “ health insurance benefits from the city”.
AG Rules Against Release of Names of DeKalb Council Members Receiving Health Insurance.
Click on the following to see the Illinois States Attorney’s Opinion: AG Rules Against Release of Names of Council Members Receiving Health Insurance :City Barbs
anyone "in arrears in the payment of a tax or other indebtedness due to a county" ineligible to serve on any county board or commission.
Lauzen's bill, SB3944, becomes law, Hurlbut may have to factor in her desire to serve on the county board among those bill-paying priorities. …... Another aspect of the bill says anyone convicted of a felony in any state of the country is also ineligible to serve on a county board or commission
Jack Franks, a Democratic state representative in Illinois and a frequent Blagojevich critic, sponsored the recall measure that voters will decide upon in November. To him, the fact that recall has been used so rarely shows that it is “an extraordinary remedy for extraordinary circumstances.”
The recall provision is narrowly tailored and complicated. A recall movement can start only with the support of 10 senators and 20 representatives in the 177-member legislature, with a proportion coming from each party. Then comes the statewide petition drive. The number of signatures needed depends on the turnout in the last governor’s election, but based on the turnout from 2006, some 750,000 names would be required.
The governor would be the only elected official who could be recalled.
Click on the following for more details: Blagojevich legacy: Recall on the Illinois ballot
around a 2009 vote Rauschenberger placed in the local Democratic primary to support his sister, Carol Rauschenberger.
He later filed to run as a Republican in this year's Feb. 2 primary.
Rauschenberger's attorney maintained the case law doesn't apply in the current situation because Rauschenberger pulled a Democratic primary ballot in a separate election cycle.
Click on the following for more details: Daily Herald | Rauschenberger wins case to stay on ballot
Bruce Schlichting was found badly beaten in a wooded area off his driveway at 9111 Huber Road in Boone County last week
Stephen J. Keegan, 60, was arrested and charged with aggravated battery on Friday. He posted bond the same day he was arrested.
American companies now rely mostly on Japan for magnets and other components using rare earth elements, as the United States’ manufacturing capacity in the industry became uncompetitive and mostly closed over the last two decades.
The Chinese halt to exports is likely to have immediate repercussions in Washington. The House Committee on Science and Technology is scheduled on Thursday morning to review a detailed bill to subsidize the revival of the American rare earths industry. The main American rare earths mine, in Mountain Pass, Calif., closed in 2002, but efforts are under way to reopen it.
Despite the name, rare earths are actually fairly common; they are expensive and seldom mined elsewhere because the processing equipment to separate them from the ore is expensive and because rare earths almost always occur naturally in deposits mixed with radioactive thorium and uranium. Processing runs the risk of radiation leaks
Click on the following to read all of the article: Amid Tension, China Blocks Crucial Exports to Japan - NYTimes.com
