Illinois State Senate
State Government: Elected Officials | State Legislative Bodies
Recent News About Illinois State Senate
-
PERSONNEL FILE: U.S. Chamber honors Capito among pro-business lawmakers
Capito WASHINGTON -- On Capitol Hill,the U.S. Chamber of Commerce presented 260 lawmakers Thursday with its prestigious Spirit of Enterprise Award for their support of pro-growth legislation during the second session of the 110th Congress. -
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Don't hire more family judges
Dear Editor: -
THIS JUST IN: Boone County
Feb. 27 -
Senator's law firm helps couple win $2.5 million
Chafin WILLIAMSON – Truman Chafin, majority leader in the West Virginia Senate and a lawyer, helped a Williamson couple win a $2.5 million verdict in a medical malpractice case. -
Supreme Court backs raises for family court judges
Benjamin CHARLESTON -- The West Virginia Supreme Court has endorsed legislation that would significantly raise the salaries of the state's 45 family court judges. -
Legislature to weigh public financing of SupCo elections
Kessler CHARLESTON - Jeff Kessler, chair of the West Virginia Senate Judiciary Committee, thinks public financing of Supreme Court elections may help avoid the unwanted attention the Court has received recently. -
THEIR VIEW: Webster can't keep her hands off Workers' Comp
Sprouse CHARLESTON -- If the House leadership adds a revamping of the medical malpractice reform to their agenda, then they will completely want to rewrite the two actual success stories in our state over the last 10 years. -
WV CALA critical of McGraw's panhandle plan
McGraw CHARLESTON -- A statewide legal reform group is criticizing a budget request by Attorney General Darrell McGraw's office to open a satellite office in the Eastern Panhandle. -
THEIR VIEW: Good for Eli Lilly
CHARLESTON -- Finally, one of these companies has stood up to Darrell McGraw and the rest of these pack of hyenas otherwise known as liberal states Attorneys General. -
Law professor disputes 'hellhole' ranking
Thornburg CHARLESTON -- A Southern Methodist University law professor says it's doubtful that West Virginia's judicial climate is as bad as some groups claim. -
THEIR VIEW: 'Oscar-worthy' films help portray state's legal backdrop
CHARLESTON – The Academy Awards are approaching, and it's time for the 2009 list of award-nominated motion pictures with titles illustrating West Virginia's broken lawsuit system. -
*** 2009 LEGISLATIVE CALENDAR
Opening Day - Jan. 14: Assemble to organize by election of officers and open and publish election returns. -
THEIR VIEW: New ethics chief: Poster child for reform?
CHARLESTON -- It's a new day for West Virginia. The state Ethics Commission has a new director. Against the backdrop of pay-to-play antics in the governors' offices of Illinois and New Mexico, the Mountain State can set a tone for conduct in public office as pure as the driven snow. -
THEIR VIEW: Rose headed for judgeship thanks to Byrd connection
MORGANTOWN -- A federal judgeship is a plum job. -
THEIR VIEW: Judicial reform: Merit selection over non-partisan election
BUNKER HILL -- Judicial reform is an extremely important issue for our state. One of our biggest impediments to job growth is the perception that our state's judiciary is the least impartial judiciary in the country. -
THEIR VIEW: The unalienable right of teachers to use drugs
CHARLESTON -- Hoppy Kercheval is dead wrong on this one. Teachers and school employees should be randomly drug tested. Absolutely. Hoppy's defense of them is a little perplexing. -
Rose, Berger recommended for federal posts
Rose CHARLESTON -- West Virginia Senators Robert Byrd and John D. Rockefeller IV have recommended Charleston lawyer Herschel "Ned" Rose II and Kanawha Circuit Judge Irene Berger to two federal judgeships. -
McGraw urges changes in Bankruptcy Code
McGraw WASHINGTON-A coalition of 22 state attorneys general, including West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw, are asking Congress to loosen U.S. bankruptcy rules so judges can modify home loans to help reduce the tide of home foreclosures. -
New Mercer judge to be sworn in on Jan. 16
CHARLESTON -– Omar J. Aboulhosn will be sworn into office as the third judge in the Ninth Judicial Circuit in Mercer County on Jan. 16 in a courtroom at the Mercer County Courthouse in Princeton. -
Justices rule against Hampshire residents
Benjamin CHARLESTON – Kanawha Circuit Judge Paul Zakaib overstepped constitutional lines when he ordered West Virginia legislators to authorize a reform election in Hampshire County, the state Supreme Court has ruled.