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Berkowitz w/Speaker Mike Madigan and AFSCME’s Henry Bayer: Illinois ain’t ready for full pension reform, on Web and Cable

Tonight’s City of Chicago edition of Public Affairs features show host Jeff Berkowitz debating and discussing pension reform with Henry Bayer,  Executive Director of AFSCME, Council 31, perhaps the nation’s largest public sector union. The show also includes clips of Berkowitz questioning Speaker Madigan and Governor Quinn on pension reform. The show, Public Affairs, airs... Read more »
By Jeff Berkowitz,
Monday at 8:53 pm
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Better than Jake Tapper w/Barack Obama: Berkowitz w/Illinois Policy Institute's Collin Hitt on Joe and Jane Six Pack

Collin Hitt [Sr. Director of Government Affairs, the Illinois Policy Institute]: …If you are in a defined benefit, if you are in a pension system or if you are putting aside money for retirement, do you want politicians to control the money? do you want the state bureaucracy to control the money? Or, do you want... Read more »
By Jeff Berkowitz,
May 21, 2012 at 8:40 pm
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Better than Chris Wallace w/Bill Clinton: Watch Berkowitz w/Illinois Policy Institute's Collin Hitt on Web/Cable on Pension Reform

Collin Hitt [Sr. Director of Government Affairs, the Illinois Policy Institute]: …The fact is we are now running out of money. Over the last five years, about 80% of all new money in higher education is going to new retirement costs…that’s why you’re seeing Democrats currently get on board with pension reform, [state employee pensions are]... Read more »
By Jeff Berkowitz,
May 15, 2012 at 5:06 pm
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Watch ABC-7 Anchor Ron Magers on cable/Web: Obama—Did he fail to deliver? Mayor Emanuel: Did he fail to deliver?

Jeff Berkowitz: ...[A]re the schools any better? I don’t think so. Finances? A little better…I’d give [Mayor Emanuel] a C. The media are just sucking it up…  Are the media slobbering all over him? Ron Magers: I don’t think they are… Let me be clear why I said I would give him between an A... Read more »
By Jeff Berkowitz,
May 14, 2012 at 8:44 pm
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Better than Charlie Rose w/the late Tim Russert: Berkowitz w/ABC-7 News' Charles Thomas on Cable/Web debating the successes/failures of President Obama, and much more

Charles Thomas [ABC-7 News Chief Political Reporter] : Here is the problem for the Republican Party. They haven’t expanded their base. They are still basically a white, suburban party and they haven’t added people, so you have to wonder, where is the majority going to come from, if they haven’t expanded– ********************************* This week’s City... Read more »
By Jeff Berkowitz,
May 7, 2012 at 8:48 pm
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Watch ABC-7 News' political reporter Charles Thomas on Web/Cable discuss Obama, the Economy, State employee pension problems, low income people and much more

This week’s Chicago Suburban edition of Public Affairs, featuring ABC-7′s Chief Political Reporter in Chicago, Charles Thomas, debating and discussing the key national, state and city political issues with show host Jeff Berkowitz airs tonight in 24 North and Northwest Chicago suburbs at 8:30 pm on Cable Ch. 19 or Cable Ch. 35  (See, below... Read more »
By Jeff Berkowitz,
May 1, 2012 at 8:55 pm
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Berkowitz w/former IL Education czar Max McGee on Cable/Web: Are school choice and competition the way to improve Chicago’s failing schools?

Dr. Max McGee is the former IL State Supt. of Education, appointed by Gov. Jim Edgar in 1998– and McGee served in that office for five years.  Dr. McGee is currently the President of the prestigious Illinois Math and Science Academy (“IMSA”), a residential high school in Aurora for gifted math/science students from the State... Read more »
By Jeff Berkowitz,
April 30, 2012 at 8:51 pm
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Watch model/Dem Activist Alina Lenar w/Berkowitz on Cable/Web: Preventing Rape with Concealed Carry; Free birth control v. Freedom to practice religion

Alina Lenar: …there are also instances such as rape.  If a woman’s not protected (not taking birth control pills), the other party (the rapist?) doesn’t care about the woman’s protection, a woman needs to worry about her own protection. The only way a woman can… Jeff Berkowitz: Why don’t we try to make sure a... Read more »
By Jeff Berkowitz,
April 23, 2012 at 8:45 pm
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Watch Illinois Policy Institute's Tillman on Cable/Web: Obama, Gas Prices, School Choice, Milton Friedman, Adam Smith, the Wealth of Nations and oh, so much more.

Is the Illinois Policy Institute (liberty and free market based), reinvigorated in the last few years under the leadership of its CEO, John Tillman, now one of the two most influential public policy think tanks in Illinois? The answer has to be “Yes, it is.”  Major events hosted by the Illinois Policy Institute in the... Read more »
By Jeff Berkowitz,
April 22, 2012 at 1:49 pm
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Watch Alina Lenar, TenthDems intern, model on Web/cable debate with Berkowitz mandatory free birth control pills from Catholic Hospitals

Watch Alina Lenar, TenthDems intern, model, actress, Democratic Party activist, debate and discuss President Obama’s policy of requiring free birth control pills/devices to be provided by Catholic hospitals and others, public school monopolies v. school choice and the failure of Illinois state government to offer concealed carry as a way to allow women to protect... Read more »
By Jeff Berkowitz,
April 18, 2012 at 8:36 pm
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