Via Sun-Times It’s so much easier to dig a hole than to climb out. And Chicago’s hole is very deep. We’re talking here about the city’s nearly $20 billion public employee pension liability, a money pit so huge it threatens…
Read MoreVia The New York Times To the Editor: David Brooks’s declaration that “money is really not important when both candidates are well financed” (“Money Matters Less,” column, Oct. 10) undermines his assurances that Americans need not worry about the flood…
Read MoreVia The Chicago Tribune Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn and Republican challenger Bruce Rauner sharply clashed Tuesday night over who could better improve the lives of African Americans during a South Side debate focused on education, crime, jobs and taxes. Rauner…
Read MoreVia The Chicago Tribune It just got a little easier for Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s well-financed re-election campaign to continue to build on its massive fundraising advantage, after a little-known mayoral candidate put $100,000 of his own money into his campaign…
Read MoreVia CTNOW HARTFORD — The last time a non-Democrat held the office of attorney general in Connecticut was in 1959. The current Democratic occupant, George Jepsen, was all of 5 years old back then. In this election, Jepsen is being…
Read MoreVia MyFoxNY CHICAGO (AP) – Republican Bruce Rauner and Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn will debate for a second time as they battle to become Illinois’ next governor. The candidates are scheduled to meet Tuesday night at Chicago’s DuSable Museum of…
Read MoreVia the Sun-Times In the quest for marriage equality, the good news last week kept tripping over itself. On Tuesday, when gay marriage bans were struck down in two more states, the news made barely a ripple nationally. A major…
Read MoreVia The Washington Times CHICAGO (AP) – Bruce Rauner roared into the Illinois governor’s race last year, saturating TV airwaves with jabs at Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn and promises to “shake up Springfield” the way only an outsider could. As…
Read MoreVia the State Journal-Register CHICAGO — In one of his toughest campaigns in more than three decades in the public eye, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn touts his long career as a “reformer” and insists he stands for clean government after…
Read MoreVia the State Journal-Register The boundaries between state government and political campaigns came into question Thursday as state lawmakers grilled Gov. Pat Quinn’s ex-chief of staff during a hearing about a troubled anti-violence program that has since ended. Republican lawmakers…
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