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Progressive Strategies | Staff Bios. Michael Lux, CEO Mike Lux is the co-founder and CEO of Progressive Strategies, an innovative consulting firm that is guided by a mission of building the progressive movement through collaborative work between progressive organizations, issue campaigns and causes. Progressive Strategies assists a variety of clients in political positioning, coalition building, developing short and long-term public education campaign strategies, and by turning ideas into reality. Mike is an active player in the blogosphere and a frequent blogger on Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and Crooks and Liars. He is the author of the book, "The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be. " Mike currently serves on the boards of several important organizations, including the Arca Foundation, Netroots Nation, Americans United for Change, Progressive Congress and USAction, the latter two of which he helped to launch.

Mike sits on the Advisory Board of the Democratic Strategist. US Economy. CBM012709. Illinois Open Government | Home. Illinois Policy Institute. Transparency Checklist. Financial%20Statements%20Press%20Release%2012.8.10. Quarterly Summary of State & Local Taxes. The Quarterly Summary of State and Local Government Tax Revenue provides quarterly estimates of state and local government tax revenue at a national level, as well as detailed tax revenue data for individual states. This quarterly survey has been conducted continuously since 1962. The information contained in this survey is the most current information available on a nationwide basis for government tax collections.

Quarterly Tax Information Sheet [PDF, 485KB] - Third Quarter 2013Quarterly Tax Information Sheet [PDF, 500KB] - Fourth Quarter 2013 Time Series/Trend Charts Table 1 - Latest National Totals of State & Local Taxes Table 1 of the Quarterly Summary of State and Local Government Tax Revenue provides national totals of state and local government tax revenue for current and prior quarters, as well as 12-month calculations. The Third and Fourth Quarter 2013 data were released on March 25, 2014. Downloadable Data [EXCEL, 37KB] Table 2 - Latest National Totals of State Tax Revenue.

DuPage County. 20101126 Departing DuPage county board chairman looks back. Robert Schillerstrom is convinced he could have won a fourth term as chairman of the DuPage County Board. But, he says, it was time to move on. During the second part of our conversation with the Naperville Republican, he talks about why he made the choice to pass up a re-election bid and decided to run for the GOP gubernatorial nomination. Schillerstrom abandoned the bid to become governor shortly before the primary. He also talks about what went wrong with the campaign.

Finally, Schillerstrom has some advice for state Sen. For the first part of our interview with Schillerstrom, see the front section of today's paper. Q. A. But one thing about elected office is you don't own the offices. I had been there long enough. It's nice to be able to leave on your own terms. Q. A. The fact that we have been able to keep our financial house in order, yet be able to reduce taxes and give money back to the taxpayers, we've shown that government can be fiscally responsible. Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. Q. 100331-cea-economics-workplace-flexibility.