Via Forbes Last week, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed a bill that places on the November 4 ballot a non-binding tax referendum that has many of us scratching our heads. If Governor Quinn is truly interested in finding out how voters feel,…
Read MoreVia Chicago Sun Times DAVE MCKINNEY AND NATASHA KORECKI SPRINGFIELD —Fifteen hundred miles away, the Cayman Islands dominated Illinois’ governor’s race for a third straight day Wednesday with Republican Bruce Rauner going on the offensive by calling on Gov. Pat Quinn…
Read MoreVia the State Journal Register In an interview I did last month with TIM SCHNEIDER, the new chairman of the Illinois Republican Party, he said, “I’m not going to open up my playbook, but I will tell you that we…
Read MoreVia Oak Park Journal Opinion: Letters To The Editor From David Melton, ICPR, Executive Director For years, voters and politicians alike have complained about the challenges of funding election campaigns. Even municipal campaigns in communities such as Oak Park…
Read MoreVia Chicago Tribune By Gregory Pratt, Tribune reporter Every year, Tinley Park officials spend tens of thousands of dollars printing three newsletters that tout the town’s virtues.In a recent edition of the Tinley Park Exchange, Mayor Ed Zabrocki lauded the…
Read MoreFrom the Daily Herald Marni Pyke Getting riders to their destinations safely and on time. That’s Metra’s mission but now you could add another responsibility — saving people from confusion. Illinois Inspector General Ricardo Meza opened a can of worms…
Read MoreVia the Chicago Tribune By Hal Dardick, Tribune reporter Mayor Rahm Emanuel and aldermen won’t grapple this fall with the financial reckoning the city faces over its underfunded police and fire pension systems, budget officials acknowledged Thursday. Instead, the Emanuel…
Read MoreVia the Daily Herald Labor Day, the unofficial opening of campaign season, is still a month away, but one new and potentially big strategy in politicians’ campaigns for votes starts next week. View full article
Read MoreFrom the Chicago Tribune By Hal Dardick Clout Street The City Council today voted to give the job of campaign finance oversight of aldermen to a city agency that doesn’t want it, a move that the council’s watchdog said will…
Read MoreVia the Chicago Tribune By Pat O’Connor and Joe Moore One of Chicago’s best-known and most reprehensible aldermanic quotes is that “Chicago ain’t ready for reform.” Then-Ald. Mathias “Paddy” Bauler’s (1935-1943 and 1947-1967) legendary resistance to cleaning up city…
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