State Rep's Report

You’d be hard-pressed to find a coach of any sport who will not echo the sentiment, “nothing good ever happens after midnight.”

Doing anything in the wee hours of the morning is usually not a good idea. Coaches know that the phone calls they get after midnight are a harbinger of a bad day to come. Usually someone’s been arrested, been in an accident, or been in a fight.

When it comes to legislating after midnight, it is usually the harbinger of really bad days to come. But, unfortunately, and, yet again, the Illinois legislature heaped new mandates and record spending on Illinois taxpayers int...