Blogger News Network (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Last week, state Comptroller Dan Hynes reported that the backlog of state bills has reached over $4 billion. Several vendors have threatened to stop providing services to the state if they cannot be paid on timely basis. Many Medicaid patients are finding fewer and fewer providers are willing to give them health care. Illinois is [...]
Part-Time Pundit (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
The following was an op-ed I wrote and was printed in about a half dozen Illinois papers in the last couple of weeks Last week, state Comptroller Dan Hynes reported that the backlog of state bills has reached over $4 billion. Several vendors have threatened to stop providing services to the state if they cannot be [...]
ILLINOIZE (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Last month, state Comptroller Dan Hynes reported that the backlog of state bills has reached over $4 billion. Several vendors have threatened to stop providing services to the state if they cannot be paid on timely basis. Many Medicaid patients are finding fewer and fewer providers are willing to give them health care. Illinois is in a full-blown fiscal crisis that puts IndyMac to shame. In...
illinoisreview (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
With the state in such economic turmoil, billions of dollars in unpaid bills laying on Comptroller Dan Hynes' desk, and with a drop in projected state revenues, 30 state workers -- also members of the same union that helped to...
Media SITREP (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
... in 2010, with Bill Daley and Attorney General Lisa Madigan all but declared. Throw in Comptroller Dan Hynes, Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn and State Sen. James Meeks, and Blagojevich may not be crazy to think he could win a primary with a sliver of a fragmented vote.
