SAYING `NO’ TO SOFT MONEY
In the early 1980s the car dealers in Illinois thought they had a problem. Their salesmen didn't like to be stuck inside a showroom on Sundays, waxing on about the...
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WELCOME TO THE CLUB?
How does Judge Patrick T. Murphy sound? After 21 years as the outspoken and untamed Cook County public guardian, Patrick Murphy is just about ready to hang it up. He's...
CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES
My, this must be a great summer for George Ryan. The governor has loads of bills to sign, money to dole out, ribbons to cut. He's getting heaps of praise...
WINDFALL FOR WHOM?
The cost of humoring the Democratic Party while it propped up Ed Rosewell for 24 years is starting to get into some real money. Rosewell is the disgraced, former treasurer...
HAVE FAITH
Now that the Cubs have taken the last two from the White Sox and the world has returned to its normal orbit, there is an opportunity for Cubs fans to...
DESTRUCTIVE BEHAVIOR
If you want to buy the album "Fat of the Land" by a British group called Prodigy, you won't find it at Wal-Mart. It's banned. That's because some people say...
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The red-meat wing of the Republican Party has had a profound and lasting impact on national politics. Not the profound and lasting impact it wanted to have, but a profound...
GETTING THE GREEN LIGHT ON PEOTONE
If Gov. George Ryan, Sen. Peter Fitzgerald and the others pushing a new suburban airport are serious about it, it's time to play for keeps. Some of the cheerleaders for...
WHY IS HASTERT ROLLING OVER AND PLAYING DEAD?
What's the point of being the speaker of the House if you're not going to be speaker of the House? Six months ago, after Newt Gingrich, and then Bob Livingston,...
HOW MUCH MORE EVIDENCE?
The conspiracy to save Judge Susan McDunn was very effective. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea culpa. McDunn got some attention this week because she was once a mediocre judge who...