By Blake Schnitker on February 10 WLDS-WEAI News spoke with Representative Davidsmeyer, who shares his thoughts on Rauner’s video and Speaker Madigan’s potential motives. “I think that, initially, the Attorney…

By Blake Schnitker on February 4 Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan last week filed a motion to freeze state workers salaries until the legislature and Governor Bruce Rauner produced a…

By Doug Finke, State Capitol Bureau Rep. C.D. Davidsmeyer, a Jacksonville Republican who is another co-sponsor of Bourne’s bill, said the important thing is to ensure workers continue to be…

State Representative CD Davidsmeyer (R-Jacksonville) has joined with other downstate Republicans and filed legislation (House Bill 1787) that will prevent IL Attorney General Lisa Madigan (D-Chicago) from blocking state employees…

By Brian Robbins, State Capitol Bureau Rep. C.D. Davidsmeyer, R-Jacksonville, views the maneuver of Madigan, daughter of Democratic House Speaker Mike Madigan, as purely political. “I thought we were past…

By Zac Coffman on January 27 at 12:40pm Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has filed a new lawsuit that would stop paychecks for state employees. Yesterday Madigan filed a motion…

From ILLINOIS NEWS NETWORK The new class of state legislators will be sworn in next week and one of the first orders of business is who will lead each chamber….

Davidsmeyer Offers a Fiscal Charter By Gary Scott A local state representative has offered what he calls a taxpayer’s fiscal charter to those frustrated by the lack of a state…

IL State Fair Initiates Survey to Improve Future Fairs Attendance at the Springfield, Illinois 2016 State Fair dropped by more than 13% on a year-to-year basis. While severe weather events…

Labor and management agree on unemployment insurance relief for steelworkers. Affected could be up to 2,000 workers at the Granite City Works. The mill complex makes hot-rolled sheet steel, which…