Republican state Rep. Dan Caulkins (Decatur) expressed his disdain for government overreach in a March 15 press release highlighting some of the latest developments in Springfield.

State Rep. Dan Caulkins (R-Decatur) argues that everything about Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s early tenure in Springfield sends the wrong message for the state.

An Illinois Policy Institute (IPI) review finds Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s new progressive-tax plan might not be everything it’s being promoted to be.

State Rep. Dan Caulkins (R-Decatur) is not afraid to say what he thinks when it comes to the progressive-income tax rates now being pushed by Democrats in Springfield.

Former state Sen. Steve Rauschenberger is all in on the idea of Rep. Allen Skillicorn (R-East Dundee) being in Washington, D.C. representing the 14th District.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker doesn’t have to go far to get an up-close look at what he insists he wants for Illinois.

State Rep. Dan Caulkins (R-Decatur) argues that many of the problems coming out of Springfield stem from the same basic flaw.

Newly elected Republican State Rep. Dan Caulkins (R-Decatur) thinks he knows why things have become so dysfunctional in Springfield.

Dan Caulkins (R-Decatur) arrived in Springfield as the new state representative of the 101st District only a few weeks ago, and already he says he feels stupefied.

Greg Baise is desperately trying to make sense of all the tax madness.

For the sake of Illinois, new Republican state Rep. Dan Caulkins (R-Decatur) is hoping his mind is playing tricks​​​​​ on him.

Newly minted state Rep. Dan Caulkins (R-Decatur) says he fears what could become of Illinois’s economy if empowered Democrats in Springfield get what he says is the one thing they want most for it right now.

Richard Pearson, executive director of the Illinois State Rifle Association, is warning members that he believes Senate Bill 107, aimed at banning “assault weapons,” will not be the last attack on legal gun owners.

State Rep. Dan Caulkins (R-Decatur) frets over the message he thinks Gov. J.B. Pritzker sent by making spending more money his first order of business in Springfield.

Newly elected state Rep. Dan Caulkins (R-Decatur) says that re-installing House Speaker Mike Madigan sends all the wrong signals.

State Rep. Brad Halbrook (R-Shelbyville) says the time for soul searching within the Illinois Republican Party is now.

State Rep.-elect Dan Caulkins thinks it is a good thing that voters in Illinois are growing mad as hell with what he calls the corruption and bad policy that have crippled their state.

State Rep. Allen Skillicorn (R-East Dundee) views the GOP's losses in November as an opportunity for rebirth.

State Rep.-elect Dan Caulkins of Decatur says he wonders what it will take for lawmakers in Springfield to stand up to the unions he argues are ruining the state.

State Rep. Brad Halbrook (R-Shelbyville) is demanding Democrats now in control in Springfield think of everyone before they make the same mistake he feels they did in 2011, when they pushed through a massive tax increase during a lame duck session.