via International Business Times “Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter spoke out Wednesday about the 2016 presidential campaign, calling out Republican front-runner Donald Trump by name and blaming a Supreme Court decision for letting ‘legal bribery’ corrupt the campaign finance system….
Read Morevia Chicago Sun-Times “Lightfoot is savvy, a skilled lawyer, an African-American, a former assistant U.S. attorney who could work with the feds, and there is no regulation Chicago’s police superintendent has to be a cop,” a top cop source said. “Lightfoot…
Read Morevia Chicago Tribune One day after the Chicago Teachers Union rejected a contract proposal from Chicago Public Schools, district officials said they would slash school budgets and stop paying the bulk of teachers’ pension contributions — moves CTU’s president quickly blasted…
Read Morevia Penn Live “So if you’ve been paying attention to politics for the last couple of years, you’ve probably seen television commercials or online advertisements, sponsored by seemingly innocuously named groups, advocating on behalf of this or that issue. For instance,…
Read MoreThe votes for Bernie Sanders and Hilary Clinton were neck-and-neck, but Hilary Clinton came out in the lead with 50.77% of the ICPR vote, and Bernie Sanders in second with 46.15%. As you may have read, the Caucus results were…
Read Morevia WSIL TV “CARBONDALE — On the day Iowans cast the first votes in the 2016 race for the White House, an SIU political expert is predicting when the Illinois Primary rolls around in six weeks the votes will actually…
Read Morevia NPR “Donald Trump thought he could upend Iowa caucus traditions. The gamble didn’t pay off. Hillary Clinton hoped she could wipe away her campaign nightmares of eight years ago by posting a solid win over an insurgent Bernie Sanders….
Read MoreICPR Board Chair Susan Garrett is quoted in this article via My Web Times “A state agency is seeking former state Rep. Frank Mautino’s ‘clarification’ on the more than $250,000 he paid to a Spring Valley bank since 1999. Mautino,…
Read Morevia Chicago Tribune “For the past seven months, Illinois residents have been forced to stand by and watch Gov. Bruce Rauner and House Speaker Michael Madigan compete in a callous game of the millionaire vs. the power broker. At first,…
Read Morevia CNN Politics “For all the complaints from Democrats about the amount of big money in politics, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have raised a staggering amount of cash. Clinton’s campaign raised $112 million in 2015, and top Democratic billionaire…
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