Specialty growers may register for a free produce safety training course 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Dec. 18 at the Southern Illinois University (SIU) Agronomy Research Center, 3268 W. Pleasant Hill Road, Carbondale.
WFLD Fox 32 Chicago President and General Manager Dennis Welsh did not mince words about the perilous place Illinois’ growing pension crisis has left the state in during a recently aired editorial on the network in which he predicted voters are primed for revolt given anything short of pension reform.
Illinois’ record-setting 2017 income tax hike has done little to slow the state’s rising pension costs, leaving state taxpayers on the hook for nearly $250 billion in unfunded public pension liability.