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• Companies threatening to leave IL get $30 million

  By: Ben Yount
  4/10/2014 9:54 AM

  This article originally appeared on watchdog.org. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — If a business wants a tax break in Illinois, it should probably threaten to move. Lawmakers looking into the state’s tax breaks and incentives are asking why Illinois is spending almost | Read More »

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  Illinois’ race for governor: A populism and proxy war

  By: Ben Yount
  3/20/2014 10:02 AM

  The working man in Illinois apparently can’t lose.

• Latest Obamacare targets: gold diggers and mama’s boys

  By: Ben Yount
  2/18/2014 11:32 AM

  SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Illinois’ Obamacare peddlers are telling people the quickest way to find a date is with an insurance card. The same people responsible for selling Obamacare with action figures via The Onion have released a new study aimed, apparently, | Read More »

• IL partners with The Onion to push Obamacare

  By: Ben Yount
  2/13/2014 11:28 AM

  This article originally appeared on watchdog.org. Illinois is turning it’s Obamacare sales pitch into a joke. To get more people to sign up for health care, the state is bragging it will spend $150,000 on ads for the satirical news | Read More »

• In Illinois, shoot first, enroll in Obamacare later

  By: Ben Yount
  1/15/2014 10:37 AM

  This article originally appeared on watchdog.org. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — In two weeks, nearly 22,000 Illinois residents have applied online for a permit to carry a gun, according to the State Police. About 61,000 have selected an insurance plan through the state’s Obamacare | Read More »

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  Do you have what it takes to peddle Obamacare?

  By: Ben Yount
  7/24/2013 11:45 AM

  States spending millions on marketing teams to pitch Obamacare

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  Illinois rewarded for misspending only $52 million on food stamps

  By: Ben Yount
  7/23/2013 10:18 AM

  Even a slight error costs taxpayers millions.