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Illinois Politicians Do Well, Chicago’s Poor Still Dying

Last update March 4, 2017

Like many in Illinois with a job and money to lose, I am waiting for the hammer to fall. The state Senate’s failing “grand bargain” is a bad omen for those of us who have lived here a long time and know what it portends.

Filed Under: Illinois Tagged With: Bruce Rauner

School Teachers Angry, but It’s Not Rauner’s Fault

Last update July 29, 2016

School teachers in Chicago are angry again. Lots of different things tick them off, especially after their union stirs them up and incites them to protest in ridiculous red shirts.

The release of an email from Bruce Rauner written years before he became governor that suggested Chicago teachers have a literacy problem escalated the war over money for the city’s debt-ridden, underperforming educational bureaucracy.

Filed Under: Illinois Tagged With: Chicago

School Funding Cuts Are What You Wanted, Aren’t They?

Last update March 4, 2016

Are you resigned to Illinois being a Democratic Party oligarchy, or do you still believe that our state’s feeble nod to representative government can survive? Regardless of where you stand, the blame for school funding cuts and other fiscal torments can only be laid in one place: at the feet of the people.

Filed Under: Illinois

Greatest Accomplishment for Illinois Was This?

Last update January 20, 2016

At the end of another abysmal 12 months Illinois can finally declare without a doubt what its greatest accomplishment was in 2015: talk. Lots and lots of talk.

This time there was a Republican at the helm.

Bruce Rauner has been sitting in the governor’s seat for a year.

Filed Under: Illinois Tagged With: Bruce Rauner, Chicago

Rauner is Right. Illinois Turnaround Starts Now.

Last update November 4, 2015

Where best to start with everything happening in Illinois? Do we begin with more credit downgrades,1 two Republican ex-governors turning on Governor Bruce Rauner,2 or Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s plan to scrape up $250,000 to fund a Chicago gun buyback program?

Filed Under: Illinois Tagged With: Bruce Rauner

Slave to Lincoln’s State? Three Outrageous Examples

Last update November 4, 2015

Every morning I face going to prison. While driving to work, two signs on each side of the highway threaten to take away my freedom for fourteen years for striking a highway worker. This doesn’t make me a slave exactly and hitting someone is certainly a serious matter, but it still feels like a threat to my liberty without the slightest hint of due process.

Filed Under: Illinois

Madigan and Rauner on How Illinois Government Can Help

Last update June 1, 2015

He probably didn’t realize it when he said it, but Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan’s widely circulated remark about what Illinois government should do for residents “who need the government to be helpful to them.”1,2 will go down in state history for summing up the very worst thing about what his decades in office have accomplished.

Filed Under: Illinois Tagged With: Democrats

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