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The Tribune Editorial Board endorses Michael Frerichs for Illinois treasurer and Susana Mendoza for state comptroller.

The primary election for Illinois treasurer and comptroller have no contested races.

BEN SZALINSKI The State Journal-Register Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza announced this week the state has paid down its bill backlog to a manageable level. "This is a remarkable day that I have been working toward since I took office in December 2016 amid the budget impasse when the previous administration was paying nursing homes and hospice centers up to a year late and they let the backlog climb to $16.7 billion," Mendoza said Wednesday. Illinois went without a budget for over two years between July 2015 and August 2017 as legislators and former Republican Gov. Bruce Raun...

This is the perfect opportunity for a GOP administration to rack up billions of dollars in unpaid bills because they’re complete failures at governing and are more interested in being the reason why we can’t have nice things than addressing that their party is morally and intellectually bankrupt. What GOP administration? Where? The GOP in Illinois is inept, but they have very little impact on the budget or finances. As Rich Miller pointed out in an excellent article the other day, Illinois really has to focus on controlling spending, as the bill backlog could really escalate by 2024. And ...

By Benjamin Cox on April 28, 2021 at 1:50pm The State’s backlog of unpaid bills has fallen into a 30-day payment cycle. Comptroller Susana Mendoza’s Office reports today that the state’s balance has fallen to $3.5 billion after being at a high of $16.7 billion in January 2017. Mendoza says that the oldest commercial vouchers owed to most vendors and providers of goods and services in her office right now are dated from Monday. She says it’s the first time in several years that the state has final caught up to a manageable cycle of bill payment. The Debt Transparency A...