Tom Lisi
Tom reports on statehouse issues for NPR Illinois. He's currently a Public Affairs Reporting graduate program student at the University of Illinois Springfield. He graduated from Macalester College. Tom is from New York City where he also did stand-up and improv and wrote for the Awl and WNYC public radio.
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New legislation would require Illinois residents to replace their smoke detectors.Newer models can be temporarily silenced for burned pizza — so…
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Milkweed could become the Illinois state wildflower under legislation pending in the General assembly. The proposal would also prohibit local...
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Democrats in the Illinois House of Representatives Thursday passed a plan to send more than $800 million to human services and universities. They call...
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Illinois voters in 2014 overwhelmingly approved raising the state’s minimum wage to ten dollars an hour. Legislators never followed through on that…
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The failure to pass a real budget is driving up the cost of Illinois government. The state hasn’t been paying its bills for employee health care, and…
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Yesterday’s “I voted” sticker is today’s ballot selfie. But some voters last fall found out Illinois makes it illegal to take a selfie with your ballot....
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Ten years ago, Cindy Bonnet found out she was getting new neighbors in Nora, Illinois: 10,000 cows. It’s what’s known in the industry as a “concentrated...
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Illinois lawmakers are working on legislation intended to help youth programs struggling under the state budget impasse. Youth services do things like…
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U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) made a stop at the Springfield Boys & Girls Club, saying its funding is under threat by President Trump’s budget...
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The nursing home industry is fighting legislation that would require them to have higher staffing levels — and greater penalties if they don’t meet…