Governor’s Medicaid Cuts May Hurt Struggling Hospitals

Gov. Pat Quinn's plan to slash $2.7 billion from Medicaid to save a program "on the brink of collapse" could prove fatal for some of the Chicago-area hospitals that treat the poor and already are struggling to survive amid rock-bottom reimbursement rates and costly federal health care reform, Crain’s Chicago Business reported.

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State GOP: Quinn Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic

Illinois Republican Party Chairman Pat Brady said that Governor Pat Quinn's proposed budget that he just presented to the General Assembly does not contain the financial reforms needed to turn the state's economy around.

"Governor Quinn's matinee performance today was just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic," said Brady. "Instead of reforming state spending and lowering taxes to gain more jobs, Governor Quinn's budget continues to increase spending and has no strategic plan for bringing businesses and jobs back to Illinois that have been lost since he and his Democratic friends raised taxes 67%."

Newspaper Calls Kane County Politics ‘Nitty, Gritty, Downright dirty’

The Aurora Beacon News comments on the press conference called Wednesday by Jon Zahm, chairman of the Kane County Conservative Coalition, to release a string of email exchanges between Kevin Burns, GOP candidate for Kane County Board chairman, and some other GOP leaders.

Zahm released “the sometimes vulgar, sometimes rude” exchange of emails that were sent out by Burns from his office as Geneva mayor from August 2011 to this February.

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