Jeremy Renner, who supported their female colleague for the right vision.

directly pay series to employ a “diverse” staff writer every season.

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the Rauners were owed a $2.2 million federal refund and $400,000 from the Illinois Department of Revenue, both of which were applied to the couple's 2015 liability.

"at least Blagojevich ... was off doing his crazy things and state government kind of continued to move along. I don't think state government's moving along right now. I mean, I just think too many things are at a standstill."

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The study recommends making tax policy changes that would cause tax revenue volatility and economic harm.

The study refers to a problematic report completed by Standard and Poor’s to prove its point.

The study includes one regressive portion of the federal income tax but fails to include any discussion of the federal income tax as a whole, even though it is highly progressive.

The study isn’t focused on the distribution of taxes by income group

The chairman of the Senate’s education committee — Sen. Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee — declined to schedule a vote on renewing the Perkins Loan Program. So the program, which has annually let about a half million students with "exceptional financial need" borrow money through about 1,500 colleges, expired on September 30.

This decision brings the Reconstructionist movement to that point, and to the degree that it places pressure on other denominations — and history suggests that it will — then it risks damaging our religious, moral and spiritual leadership at a time when we need it the most.

civil service preferences for state veterans

the 9th Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals, in the case of Donald S. Miller v. the California Department of Motor Vehicles, ruled that there simply is no “fundamental right to drive.

and properly licensed and trained individuals

convicted of?

however, that gap closes when compared to those who have been arrested or incarcerated.

the rush of out-of-state, untraceable spending created additional support for a state-level effort to solve California’s dark money problem.

under most circumstances, are quite capable of deciding for themselves which of their buildings and parks should be named, and after whom,

“You wouldn’t need all those buses if you would just open an office here.”

“We have received an incredibly warm welcome in Oakland and remain committed to continuing to invest in the community and build relationships as we work to open our headquarters’ doors in 2017,” Laura Zapata, a spokeswoman for the company, tells WIRED.

would add between 2,000 and 3,000 employees in Oakland, double its current 2,000 or so full-time Bay Area employees.

ride-hailing giant Uber, to land a major part of its operations in Oakland.

And both ironic and tragic is the harm to the Judeo-Christian heritage whose practitioners brought religious toleration to full fruition in this nation

The case was brought by rejected applicant Abigail Fisher, who contends she was rejected because of her race

They also contend that unions should have to get permission before collecting dues used for political purposes

The case, Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, was brought by Orange County, Calif. schoolteacher Rebecca Friedrichs and other teachers, who are arguing that forcing them to pay union dues violates their First Amendment rights.

Length of school day, length of school year, layoffs in Chicago teachers, whenever they needed something out (of collective bargaining), they take it out," the governor said. "So when somebody argues to you (that) this is about a violation of the core principles of the Democratic Party, call it on them. Call them on it. It's not true. Simply not true. This is about political manipulation, political maneuvering, not about true genuine policy."

Rauner attempted to reframe the debate by arguing Democrats already have voted for various union-weakening proposals in recent years, nullifying their argument that they'd be violating a core principle if they approved his demands.

FAST Concept Scheme (form or genre term)

Using SKOS, a knowledge organization system can be expressed as machine-readable data. It can then be exchanged between computer applications and published in a machine-readable format in the Web.

There is one servant role that I do not think the digital humanities should shirk as its unique contribution to the mainstream humanities: service (as literal as running the actual servers, if need be) toward advocating the humanities in its present moment of need,

rather than, again, just a servant

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clichéd forms of such issues–e.g., “the digital divide,” “privacy,” “copyright,” and so on–get much play.

that is to fund it," said McCarter.

Rauner raised eyebrows when he distributed checks worth between $3,000 and $8,000 to Republican members of the General Assembly. Some members did not cash the checks after concerns were raised about whether Rauner was buying votes during the tumultuous session.

the Illinois Constitution puts the onus for a balanced budget on the governor and the General Assembly:

Rauner’s reforms in workers’ compensation laws and tort reform would, in Madigan’s view, bring undue sacrifice to middle-class and low-income residents.

because Madigan outright opposes term limits and redistricting reform but also because most of his reform legislation has arrived front-loaded with measures to deflate union strength.

where he challenged the Democrats who control the General Assembly to pass reforms including term limits, legislative redistricting reform and a property tax freeze.

n fact, more people say gun ownerships protects people from a crime.

There’s no discernible pattern among those cities, nor clear or convincing evidence in these statistics that shows more gun laws lead to more or less gun crime.

Durbin says prohibiting the sale of tobacco products to anyone under the age of 21 would save more than 220,000 lives from smoking related deaths.

Juxtaposing that news with the groups hardest hit by Rauner’s budget plan, it’s starting to look like the governor is targeting the least fortunate while offering big breaks to businesses.

want to provide incentives for graduates to stay in Illinois, providing funding through loans or grants that could be forgiven, for example, as tax returns are filed for work the former students do in the state.

"The fact of the matter is, it's about local control," Brady said, "and I don't know why they'd be afraid to trust local elected officials to establish fair contracts and fair wages."

Without a budget in place, Rauner says, the money cannot be distributed.

Now politicians in Kentucky are claiming they have a Constitutional right to receive gifts from lobbyists.

“One can believe both things without contradiction.”

While Citizens United may state that independent expenditures cannot lead to corruption,

In his opinion, Walls writes that “the Constitution does not protect an attempt to influence a public official’s acts through improper means.” (Read Walls' decision here.)

Walters would not address how the savings could be that high if almost all the employees are still being paid and the facilities still have to be maintained.

race-conscious admissions policies could change as a result of its decision in June to revisit a lawsuit challenging a race-conscious admissions policy for undergraduates at the University of Texas at Austin.

Such suspicions have become common among Asian and Asian-American students who believe that selective colleges are either discriminating against them outright or holding them to substantially higher standards than applicants who are black, Hispanic, or Native American.

the state’s Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, which exercises police powers as part of its function of regulating the sale and use of alcohol in Virginia.

an investigation of admissions practices at Princeton University found "no evidence" of discrimination against Asian and Asian-American applicants

not unnecessarily aggressive, a state-police report said.

an issue "written entirely by students of color" in the near future

allowed football and men’s basketball players to be paid deferred compensation of up to $5,000 per year.

Emanuel promised during both of his campaigns to have "the most open, accountable and transparent government that the city of Chicago has ever seen," but the Tribune says the Democrat has repeatedly stonewalled press access.

especially in makerspaces organized by folks from non-STEM disciplines

The regents rejected a request from Israel supporters to adopt the State Department’s definition of anti-Semitism

anything that might offend someone is mentioned

Rather than having to wait to file the application after completing tax returns for the previous year, students and families will be able to use tax information from two years prior.

talent, commitment, and luck play big roles in determining how big your paychecks are

the Oak Brook Village Board voted unanimously to support repealing the prevailing wage, going against the wishes of 40 or so union representatives and workers who attended the board meeting.

the disputes between the two—taxes and workers' comp reform, pensions and prevailing wage, school aid and unemployment compensation—can be worked out by people of goodwill.

a man who, after all, sabotaged his own daughter's aspirations for higher office because he thinks he's entitled to power forever—was not going to roll over.

serves effectively and is endorsed.

Chicagoan Nancy Wade is running as a Green Party candidate.

support for free trade

Lipinski opposed the Affordable Care Act and has worked hard to address its deficiencies

out-of-towners serving as “city alderman.”

a felon serving in municipal office

“The last thing I would see our governor doing is making our pension funds political,” says Hobson. “He understands at his core what pension fund investing is about.”

a Texas firm that plans to invest it in a less-complicated, fixed-income fund

We were paying them fees for putting money in a mattress. . . . Our vision is to be pretty tough on fees.”

Unlike the three other firms that the Rauner appointees voted to terminate, Ullico wasn’t fired for “underperforming” on investment returns

instruct the Illinois State Board of Investment on how to invest taxpayer dollars.”

says the governor’s battle with organized labor had “absolutely” nothing to do with the decision.

In line with Rauner’s anti-organized labor stance, one of the managers the board dumped was Ullico, a union-owned investment firm that lends money to construction projects that agree to hire union labor.

The Republican governor’s appointees to the Illinois State Board of Investment voted to shift $697 million into investments designed to mimic the financial markets’ performance

They replied to the questions we asked in the time frame we had asked.

But the progressive income tax was unconstitutional in the 1930s and it’s still unconstitutional today

Although the constitution allows for a flat rate income tax, it strictly prohibits a graduated, or progressive, income tax.

tax in the wake of a potential Metra shutdown is irresponsible and unfair to the people who have to get in and out of the city for work each day.

Instead of federal mandates, it is incumbent upon local train systems to maintain responsible safety standards that make sense for each locality.

Train systems that do not implement PTC cannot continue to operate after Dec. 31, 2015. Metra officials have repeatedly told the federal government they cannot make all of the necessary adjustments until 2019

The administration's refusal to pay step increases is part of its overall wage freeze plan

plus other costly benefit increases while the Rauner administration is seeking to freeze wages.

Calling state employees "pawns in the political dispute over the state budget," the union is asking Circuit Judge Robert LeChien, among other things, to block the state from laying off 158 employees on Sept. 30 and to continue to pay health insurance claims for state employees and their dependents.

Republicans' trust in the judicial branch could be restored with a landmark ruling more in sync with conservative ideology and policy preferences; one possibility would be in a case on Affirmative Action in college admissions, to be heard in the coming term.

I can’t imagine any of the mostly-white English-speaking protesters standing outside carnicerias and protesting traditional Latin American methods of animal husbandry and slaughter

Or, for that matter, a Latino neighborhood anywhere in New York?

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They believe that many neonatal herpes cases the city attributes to mohels were caused by a family member or a caregiver touching the circumcision wound with a finger or hand

which commonly causes cold sores, is prevalent in more than two-thirds of adults in New York City.

But at the beginning of 2015, under pressure from the ultra-Orthodox community, the administration of New York City’s mayor, Bill de Blasio, announced the city’s intention to revoke the consent form regulation.

Although the cultural politics of race and gender have garnered continual consideration in the discourse examining access and equity,

While his visit was not an open campus forum

McWhorter encourages us to see linguistic structures as nothing more than products of “chance,” and to accept that we are all “mentally alike.”

McWhorter praises Boroditsky and others for elegant and sound experimental design, but says they have resurrected the hypothesis in such a diluted form that their work only serves to show that language barely affects thought at all, as measured cognitively.

Did the opposite genders of “bridge” in German and Spanish, for example, have an effect on the design of bridges in Spain and Germany?

promoting car alternatives

improving housing

a 550-square-foot one-bedroom unit would have to rent for $1,165. Without them, renters could pay $975—saving $190 a month.

the university was worried that eliminating parking requirements in Champaign would make the city too nice.

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is suspicious that campaign contributions may influence Washington Supreme Court’s justices

the Guttmacher Institute surveyed all abortion providers (about 1,700), including Planned Parenthood, and found that 60 percent are in majority-white neighborhoods — and that fewer than one in ten abortion providers are located in neighborhoods where more than half of the residents are black

The most logical solution is to raise the income tax.

than a distantly possible threat to minority voting rights that are already protected in the amendment and by federal law anyway.

A patchwork of court orders and state laws are ensuring that around 80% of state spending is still disbursed. State employees are still getting their salaries and pensions, and recipients of Medicaid, a government health-scheme for the poor, are still getting coverage.

the Republican had abandoned right-to-work as part of his platform. Rauner pushed the issue as he could through the courts, an effort that is still underway

This, of course, disregards that gasoline literally fuels the car, a key component of what makes it work," Rauner wrote

who said in a statement that Arduin had "played an instrumental role in re-establishing sound economic and fiscal principles" in state government.

Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.)

The absence of bathroom breaks and waiting periods between meetings does not change the hours of dialogue with top-level Planned Parenthood executives eager to manipulate abortion procedures to get high-quality baby parts for financially profitable sale.

"experts"

f you look at the timestamp in the lower left-hand corner, it jumps forward by nearly a half-hour (from about 7:46 to 8:18) in just a few seconds.

the University Police Department,

current enforcement is somewhat effective, and devoting more resources to enforcement would further constrain gun access by dangerous people.”

This research demonstrates that current federal and local regulations are having a big effect on the availability of guns to criminals in Chicago,” he adds. “They can’t buy their guns from stores, the way most people do, and are instead largely constrained to making private deals with acquaintances, who may or may not be willing and able to provide what they want.

initially purchased out of state

He and I share a passion around economic empowerment, especially in the black community

Rauner shifted the blame to Democrats who he said have refused to institute his reforms and instead want to discuss revenue options to pay the bills.

And that means you'd better know who the daddy is, and whether or not he can afford that child

to lower income taxes

the powerful speaker of the Illinois House, failed to round up enough votes to override the governor’s veto of an important labor bill

he has been unable to win passage of the major restrictions on labor rights that he has endorsed.

between one man and one woman.

police sources believe that his killing could be gang-related

allow a municipality to impose new pension obligations by a resolution of its governing bod

SPRINGFIELD – Governor Bruce Rauner took action today on the following bills

Here are four suggestions for a great guys’ day in Danville.

The bill increases the transparency of political spending in Illinois by adding a year-round 5 day reporting requirement for Independent Expenditures.

"What's wrong with slavery?"

he SKOS approach allows an application designer to create new properties to capture this distinction, and to declare them as sub-properties of skos:broader:

It has also been suggested that OWL itself could be used to coordinate concepts: ex:bicyclesRepairing a skos:Concept; owl:intersectionOf (ex:bicycles ex:repairing); skos:prefLabel "Bicycles--Repairing"@en.

However the SKOS vocabulary itself does not provide any mechanism for expressing that a given concept consists of a pre-coordination of other concepts

Pre-coordination is done prior to information retrieval, by a KOS maintainer, or by an indexer who is using a KOS

they’ve caused a lot of confusion about what kind of information we access and what we do with it. We apologize for that. We should have done a better job in communicating what these policies mean and how any information you choose to share will – and will not – be used.”

Both Walker and Rubio have signed the Grover Norquist pledge to never raise a single penny of tax revenue ever, under any circumstances.

On June 15, 2004, the NLRB under the George W. Bush administration effectively reversed the previous ruling by a three to two vote.

“There easily could be a female Doctor,” Moffat told SFX magazine last year. “I think the next time might be a female Doctor. I don’t see why not. I think it’s good to do that.”

A tube of anti-cavity toothpaste, MKIC, was found in your possession past its expiration date of 9 April 2015

Other than Tilda Swinton, who wouldn’t do it because she’s too busy anyway.

“But I never, as a female, thought I was being robbed because the Doctor’s a bloke

“As a heterosexual woman, I have no interest in a female Doctor

Doctor Who should never be played by a woman, according to the novelist and comedian AL Kennedy.

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According to this USAToday article, “Automakers have substantially improved the reliability of their vehicles. Although it’s still possible to buy a ‘lemon,’ it’s getting increasingly difficult. Analysts say that most of the major automakers have overcome major quality issues.”

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from academic programs,” he said.

Generally colleges avoid laying off tenured faculty members, and do so only if they're struggling to pay bills.

I support that provision.

employment information”, to “amount of employment income

there are still millions of U.S. residents who lack health insurance, even though the country spends almost double what any other nation does for health care

just clearing the minimum of 305,591 signatures from Ohio voters.

But there's no indication thus far that Oklahoma is likely to espouse that attitude. Earlier this year, Oklahoma and Nebraska officials launched a legal challenge to Colorado's legalization, arguing that it has ushered in a flood of illicit pot across state lines.

He said his group was also keeping an eye on developments in Missouri and Michigan.

he reiterated his longtime support for ending birthright citizenship

most which can be accessed online

Germany is the biggest and most formidable opponent of debt relief, but is also the loudest supporter of keeping the IMF on board.

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t is now likely that Tsipras will call early elections and trigger a realignment of Greek politics.

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Authorizes, but does not require, the use of police body cameras throughout the state.

The Teamsters deal pending final approval puts in place a four-year wage freeze for the state workers it covers and “a new performance incentive program” to award bonuses to high-performing employees.

Rauner must appoint five union leaders to the 13-member labor panel.

"Given that no sale has yet occurred and we have not had an opportunity to evaluate the success and failure of the pilot program, a further extension would be premature," Rauner wrote to lawmakers.

But Rauner said the program should only be extended by four months because that "would account for the delay in the final months of the prior administration."

Rauner again argued that standard went too far in the opposite direction, suggesting the limit instead should be 5 nanograms per milliliter of blood.

saying the measure that lawmakers sent him would let people carry too much pot and sets fines too low.

“Ferrell kicked the victim’s car as she passed causing nearly $5,000 in damage.”

act: Illinois has had a higher unemployment rate than neighboring states

Fact: We now rank 48th in the nation.

many of the reforms that were so effective in Michigan are included in Gov. Bruce Rauner’s legislative agenda for Illinois. Michigan enacted collective-bargaining reforms along with Right to Work,