by Brian Costin Recently, we asked some of our more active Liberty Leaders to let us know what they are up to and what has made them successful in their efforts to promote liberty around the State of Illinois. If you would like to share your story please email me at bcostin@illinoispolicy.org. Below is a [...]
Tag Archives: Nancy Thorner
Liberty Leader Nancy Thorner in the Lake Forester: “LFHS spending should be open”
As a long-time Lake Bluff resident and taxpayer, a Lake Forester article by Karen Berkowitz published July 15 — “LFHS tops all North Shore high schools in spending per student” — caught my attention.
David Pennington and Nancy Thorner in Illinois Review: “Why Isn’t the Illinois Teacher Retirement System Solvent?”
For years the General Assembly and successive governors have failed to ensure the solvency of the Teacher Retirement System (TRS) as mandated by Illinois law.
Nancy Thorner in FreedomPub “The American people are smarter than Obama realizes”
Today (Thursday, July 15) President Obama attended a groundbreaking ceremony in Holland, Michigan to salute a South Korean-owned factory that will make electric car batteries.
Nancy Thorner in The Lake Forester “Be scared of new Medicare czar”
All Lake Forester readers, seniors or not, must become acquainted with Dr. Donald Berwick, the health-care rationing czar whose recess appointment on July 8 elevated him to head of the federal Medicare and Medicaid health insurance programs.
Nancy Thorner in Freedompub: ‘The “Do-Something” Congress creates a monstrosity of a financial regulation bill’
The 2,300-page monstrosity of a financial regulation bill, the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill, could be brought to the Senate floor for a procedural vote tomorrow (July 15) and passage could happen the same day or on Friday, July 15, given the blessings of three Republican senators who signed on to the bill to attain the 60 votes required for passage: Scott Brown, Olympia Snowe, and Susan Collins.
Nancy Thorner in the Sun Times “Don’t let Zion nuke plant go to waste”
Unless there is intervention soon, north suburban Zion’s Dual Nuclear Facility, capable of producing 2,100 megawatts of power, will be foolishly wasted.