Cousin Willie is a 19th Ward Icon- Special Events genius,bartender, singer, community leader, and parish-go-to-guy and beautiful Irish/Italian/Polish wife Kerry have tossed [...]
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Illinois Editor
Following up on an Illinois Statehouse News article from last month, the Tribune finds that the budget crisis is hitting close to home for at least five state senators who are now facing eviction from their district offices [...]
Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich details the "deal" he was trying to get Rahm Emanuel to broker to fill President Obama's Illinois Senate seat in an interview with Fox News Greta Van Susteren. Blagojevich sat down with Van Susteren in advance of the Sunday telecast of "The Apprentice," where [...]
Schedule for Week of March 15, 2010
On Monday, the President will travel to Strongsville, Ohio, where he will deliver remarks on health insurance reform.
On Tuesday, the President will attend meetings at the White House.
On Wednesday, the President will [...]
Well after several days not blogging we're taking another trip to Detroit this Sunday. Well of course all we're doing is looking at what Detroit seeks to do as far as making for a better city today. One answer is to essentially shrink the city that is [...]
Governor Blagojevich admitted to FOX News Greta Van Susteran that he wanted Rahm Emanuel to work out a deal with House Speaker Mike Madigan to effect Illinois legislation in exchange for appointing Madigan's daughter Lisa to be Illinois next U.S. Senator ...
BLAGOJEVICH: Well, you know, I chose Rahm Emanuel. He [...]
From the Journal Star:
One day after Peoria County Board Chairman Tom O’Neill told the Journal Star that Firefly had filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, the attorney for the company said no such petition has been filed in any court.
Richard M. Bendix, an attorney with Dykema in Chicago, said [...]
"We'll have the votes when the House votes, I think, within the next week," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said on "Fox News Sunday" this morning. He went on to say that "those on next week's Sunday talk shows "will be talking about healthcare not as a presidential proposal but I' [...]
When you hear Senate President John Cullerton bemoaning the hopelessness of the state budget situation, feel free to point to a piece of legislation that would be the first step in ending the General Assembly's' out-of-control spending addiction: simply putting a means testing on free CTA rides for seniors.
I am absolutely dumbfounded why the news that Monica Conyers will be spending the next three years in prison isn't a national story. She's the wife of House Judiciary Committee John Conyers.
We received this on Thursday from a reader -- Regular church attendance and a faith-oriented culture leads to a society that values self-control. The more self-control exercised, the less the State is driven to make and enforce laws that invade their citizens' privacy and personal freedoms. So, going to church often matters -- personally and socially.
But how does a culture encourage' [...]
by John F. Di Leo
Ever since the Athenians invented the stageplay, the theater has depended on a concept called the "willing suspension of disbelief." Even though the audience knows that those are actors on the stage - even though the audience drove there in their cars, hired a babysitter for [...]
The Texas State School board held hearings this week to determine their schools' standards for the next ten years. In an overwhelming 10 to 5 vote, the board's conservative majority affected crucial textbook changes likely to eventually influence Illinois' system as well. Since Texas is one of the nation's biggest textbook buyers, [...]
I’m going to quote a few paragraphs from C.J. Summers, who’s been all over the Firfefly scandal:
Not quoted anywhere is Rep. David Leitch, the former VP at National City who is credited with orchestrating the public-private partnership. He was quoted in the Journal Star back in 2007 as saying [...]
President Obama’s blueprint of legislation to revamp and dramatically change No Child Left Behind, the Bush administratin’s signature education law, is drawing severe criticism from teacher unions, which means to me Obama has come up with a good plan.
Obama calls for teacher accountability, merit pay, increased ability of school administrators [...]
The City of Chicago just updated its website: [www.cityofchicago.org] (about time; the new version is fast and user-friendly). One of the new features is "TechLocator," which points out free internet points, wi-fi hotspots, and tech training around the city. Check it out here. [...]
Back in 1924, the Chicago Police Department's rule book could fit in the palm of an officer's hand.
Now the rules are compiled in six ring binders -- a 16-inch stack of paper.
"It's a mess," said [...]
Daylight saving time begins at 2 a.m. Sunday, so clocks should be set an hour later tonight.
The United States--with a few local exceptions--loses an hour so that there is more daylight in the [...]
A proposal has been on the table to build a wind farm in the ocean off of Cape Cod, where many of our liberal elitists have vacation homes or live there full-time. For the most part they oppose the Cape Wind project--that's because they want wind [...]
Would you go nude hot-tubbing with Republican Rep. Kevin Garn of Utah?
First, the strange news from NPR:
Utah’s House majority leader resigned from the Legislature Saturday, two days after acknowledging he paid a woman $150,000 to keep quiet about a nude hot-tubbing incident that took place a quarter century [...]
