Tom Lisi
2017 Public Affairs Reporting Intern - StatehouseTom 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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The Republican health plan currently in Congress would remove $40 billion from the Illinois’ current Medicaid program over the next 10 years, according to…
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Gov. Bruce Rauner’s new rules restricting overtime pay for home health aids passed a major test Tuesday. Starting August 1, caretakers will be limited to…
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Illinois Democrats want to make it harder for outside political groups to confuse voters with absentee ballot schemes. It’s a reaction to reports of a…
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Before Mary Rabbe died from complications related to Alzheimer’s in 2015, she moved between several different long-term care facilities in the Springfield…
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Dr. Ronald Lynch runs a family dentistry in Jacksonville. He says approximately 20 percent of his patients are state workers. Because Illinois is still…
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Yet another proposal aims to get the state out of crisis.A 1917 report conducted on the Illinois pension system revealed bad news. After a pension-focused…
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A group of retired military generals is the latest to come out against an element of the Illinois Senate's "grand bargain" legislation. Their focus is a…
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Donald Trump’s presidency has Illinois lawmakers weighing an issue not usually given as much attention in the General Assembly: abortion. Since the 1970s,…
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College students rallied in the state Capitol rotunda Wednesday. They’re urging lawmakers to restore state funding to universities and community…
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If there’s anything in Illinois with a lower approval rating than state government, one imagines it could be red-light cameras: those big-brother…