Via Yahoo! News WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s push to raise the minimum wage, which has largely found success in liberal-leaning coastal states to date, could make headway in the conservative heartland in the November elections. Voters in the…
Read MoreVia Chicago-Tribune Mayoral operatives. Political rivals. Angry constituents who were denied a parking sticker. There’s a long line of people, we’re told, who’d like to whisper falsehoods about Chicago aldermen in the inspector general’s ear. For decades, the City Council…
Read MoreVia Chicago Sun-Times On Friday, three Republican-appointed federal judges in Chicago gave Wisconsin a green light to require government-issued photo IDs before people can vote in the November election. The decision could be a recipe for a disaster. Last April,…
Read MoreVia The Chicago Tribune More than two-thirds of the Chicago City Council is on board with a plan to give the city’s top watchdog the power to investigate aldermen — with at least one string attached. Inspector General Joseph Ferguson…
Read MoreVia the Herald-Review SPRINGFIELD – There’s been no shortage of politically connected companies lining up to compete for a limited number of state-regulated medical marijuana franchises. But, it remained unclear Tuesday whether state officials will release complete information about the…
Read MoreVia The New York Times Tax-exempt “social welfare” organizations, the new political weapons of choice, are widening the gap between the rich people who control campaign financing and the economically anxious voters targeted by their ads. We don’t know who…
Read MoreVia the National Journal September 9, 2014 Senate Democrats have made campaign finance reform a key plank of their preelection messaging, with Majority Leader Harry Reid denouncing outside spending from the floor regularly and Democrats blasting the corrosive influence of…
Read MoreVia Before It’s News We are celebrating September with blog posts and an event dedicated to improving the ways the public learns about how influencers get their voices heard in Washington. Complete, systemic overhauls—such as public financing or a Constitutional amendment—get the headlines, but…
Read MoreVia Progress Illinois Advocates for campaign finance reform say the U.S. Senate is expected to make an historic vote today on Senate Joint Respolution 19. That’s the proposed constitutional amendment that would give Congress and the states control of political campaign…
Read MoreVia Fox Chicago (FOX 32 News) He was forced to resign by the city of Chicago and barred from ever working for the city again. Yet Brian Garner may still wind up back on the city’s payroll as an alderman….
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