15 Apr 2024

Don Harmon’s Edacious Fixations Are Making Us Hungry

By Rich Miller

Chicago-area news outlets have been so intent on amplifying every possible angle on the proposals for new publicly-financed sports stadiums that they’ve sometimes missed the bigger picture. Senate President Don Harmon last week tried to make it simple for everyone what that bigger picture is.

08 Apr 2024

Who’s Thinking about the Children More? Heidi Mueller or Kyle Hillman?

By Rich Miller

The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services has been a very big state problem for a very long time. The department now has new leadership under Director Heidi Mueller, whose appointment was met with widespread praise. The former director of the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice was confirmed by the Senate without a single “No” vote last month, minutes before I interviewed her.

04 Apr 2024

Tales From the Uni-Potty - Part 2 : Federal Checkpoints

By Ed Newmann
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04 Apr 2024

A Process Formality - A Scott County Auditor and Supervisor Timeline

By Todd McGreevy
Tenex Precinct Atlas Poll Book Electronic Signature Capture

How did the Scott County Auditor and Supervisors fast track the most expensive pollbook vendor pricing to eliminate the incumbent system during a general election year? 

27 Mar 2024

American Empire vs. Roman Empire: What Would Jesus Do?

By John and Nisha Whitehead
American Empire vs. Roman Empire: What Would Jesus Do?

Unfortunately, the activist Jesus, the political dissident who took aim at injustice and oppression, has been largely forgotten today, replaced by a congenial, smiling Jesus trotted out for religious holidays, but otherwise rendered mute when it comes to matters of war, power and politics. Telling Americans to blindly obey the government or put their faith in politics and vote for a political savior flies in the face of everything for which Jesus lived and died.

27 Mar 2024

U.K. Court Allows U.S. DOJ Another Chance to Assure Assange Is Eligible for Extradition But Not Eligible for First Amendment Protections

By Kevin Gosztola
With Pending Assurances Assange Could Be Eligible For Extradition Without First Amendment Protection

The British High Court of Justice partially granted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s request to appeal and delayed his extradition to the United States. However, the U.S. government was given an opportunity to provide “assurances” that may result in his extradition in the next months.

25 Mar 2024

It’s Time, Once Again, for Everyone’s Favorite Sport: Polling the Illinois’d

By Rich Miller

As we’ve discussed before, the competition for scarce state dollars is particularly fierce this year in Springfield as various groups elbow each other for money while large surpluses and revenue increases start to dry up. A poll taken by respected national Democratic pollster Normington Petts in late February of 700 registered Illinois voters purports to show which of those ideas has strong support and which do not.

18 Mar 2024

Niemberg, Acklin in Disingenuous Media Competition to Make the Other His Pissing Post

By Rich Miller

“The woke Left is coming after me for peeing on a tree during my college days,” state Representative Adam Niemerg (R-Dietrich) told me not long ago.

14 Mar 2024

Sunshine Week: DOJ Spends Around $40 Million Every Year to Help Agencies Hide Records

By Kevin Gosztola

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) spends around $40 million every year on litigation intended to prevent the disclosure of records under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

14 Mar 2024

Congress Can Only Take Away Your TikTok If You Let Them

By Thomas L Knapp

On March 13, the U.S. House of Representatives passed HR 7521, the "Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act." The bill, which would attempt to ban the social media app TikTok unless its Chinese owners, ByteDance, sell it to non-Chinese owners, faces an uncertain future in the Senate, but President Joe Biden says he'll sign it if it passes.

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