From Post by Jim Orbin 6/10/2016
Homer Township's budget hearing is on Monday evening. Budget hearings are required by law. It's the most important statement that politicians will make on how they will govern over the next 12 months. Over...
Why Madigan's Democrats Do What They Do
The Illinois General Assembly has been widely criticized as being a “Do-Nothing” legislature. It’s a popular narrative. Spring Legislative Session ended last week, and the State of Illinois is no closer to pulling out of the decline into...
Working on A Dream
Chicago’s West Side is a war zone. But the casualties can’t be measured by body counts alone.
Dreams die, too, and the American Dream has all but vanished in neighborhoods such as North Lawndale, Garfield Park and...
Stephanie Soechtig, of the Katie Couric-hosted documentary about guns in America (Under The Gun), joined Dan Proft & Amy Jacobson on Chicago’s Morning Answer. Listen now to the interview that turned into a rhetorical shootout.
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Transcript
Dan Proft: Dan and Amy, and I...
Congress Debates Mandatory Selective Service Registration for Women
Written By Laurie Higgins
Some may remember the ecstatic press accounts of the first two women, Capt.Kristen Griest and 1st Lt. Shaye Haver, to make it through the grueling Army Ranger School. Well, here’s what former...
ALLOWING MUNICIPAL BANKRUPTCY MUST BE PRIORITY FOR ILLINOIS
MARK GLENNON June 7, 2016
OPINION
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnGExrTcRcs
In the dozens of articles you probably read in the last few months about our fiscal crisis, what’s the universal omission? A solution.
No analyst, officeholder or commentator has...
Regularly scheduled spring session ended on May 31st, but the State of Illinois remains in an unprecedented financial situation. We return to Springfield this Wednesday.
Still No Budget
As I’m sure you know by now Speaker Madigan attempted...
A Weekend in Chicago: Where Gunfire Is a Terrifying Norm
JUNE 4, 2016
Three days, 64 people shot, six of them dead: Memorial Day on the streets, and the violence that has engulfed families and neighborhoods.
Videos by Craig Duff, Todd Heisler...
Property taxes outstrip Texans’ incomes
By Kenric Ward / May 30, 2016 / News / 10 Comments
Senate Select Committee on Property Tax Reform and Relief
WIDENING GAP: Increases in local property taxes are more than...
We agree to let this happen with our silence
The President according to article 2 Section 2 of the Constitution does not have the authority to make LAW. Making laws is reserved to the Congress. Likewise Article 3 does not give...
