19 May 2025

It’s Speaker Welch’s Fingerprints on the Blade Sticking Out of Fred Crespo, in Case You’re Wondering

By Rich Miller

House Speaker Chris Welch took the extraordinary actions last week of permanently kicking Representative Fred Crespo (D-Hoffman Estates) out of the House Democratic caucus, stripping him of his legislative staff, removing him from his appropriations committee chair’s position, and booting him from the bicameral Legislative Audit Commission.

13 May 2025

Scott County Attorney Keeping DCI Report on 324 Main Collapse Secret Will Cost Taxpayers … Again.

By David Ezra Sidran

[The remarks below were delivered during Public With Business at the Scott County Board of Supervisors Board Meeting Thursday April 24, 2025.]  "I will save you the suspense: It is a public record. We all know how this is going to end. The only question is if you’re going to write another check for $93,000 to Mike Meloy or not?"

13 May 2025

Debris in Davenport Is Gone, but the Secrets Remain: May 15 Iowa Public Information Board Might Hear County Attorney Request to Keep DCI Report on 324 Main Street Collapse Hidden

By Randy Evans

As we approach May 28, the second anniversary of a tragedy that shocked the people of Davenport and brought national attention to the issue of building safety, secrecy continues to cloud public confidence in their government officials.

13 May 2025

Timeline: Elected Scott County Officials Keeping Public Information Secret Cost Taxpayers $93,000: Scott County Played Games Even After Iowa Supreme Court Ruling

By Kathleen McCarthy
Scott County Iowa Vacancy Appointment Committee 2022 Tompkins Knobbe Vargas

For two years, lifelong Scott County residents Dr Allen Diercks and Diane Holst (a former Scott County Board of Supervisor) put their money where their convictions are and hired Attorney Mike Meloy to take Scott County, Iowa, and Auditor Kerri Tompkins to court in 2023 to compel her in the direction of greater transparency and participation with Scott Countians by disclosing the list of names and addresses of 27 candidates who submitted résumés for a vacant supervisor seat on the Scott County Board of Supervisors (SCBS).

12 May 2025

Pritzker Reiterates: Now’s Not the Time for Budgeteers to Make It Rain

By Rich Miller

I spent some time talking with a top legislative budget negotiator last week who said rank-and-file legislators will very soon have to come to terms with a state budget environment unlike anything many have ever seen before.

05 May 2025

A Couple of Three Things Pritzker Should Know Should He Take the Fight to Trump

By Rich Miller

During a rip-roaring speech in New Hampshire last week, Governor JB Pritzker called for mass national protests and “disruption,” assailed “do-nothing” Democrats for their “simpering timidity,” and labeled President Donald Trump a “madman” who cannot be reasoned with. The Jewish Ukrainian-American governor said of Trump: “Stop tearing down the Constitution in the name of my ancestors. Do not claim that your authoritarian power-grabs are about anti-Semitism. When you destroy social justice, you are disparaging the very foundation of Judaism.”

01 May 2025

Filipino-American Author Jason Tanamor Makes Great Strides in the QC

By Jonathan Turner

Jason Tanamor will help celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in May with a new, Filipino-inspired shoe that pays respect to the Philippines flag. He designed the Italian-made shoe, the JT I, produced by Alive Shoes, which also aims to expand the underrepresented market of the Philippines.

28 Apr 2025

It Was an Open-and-Shut Case. If Only Emil Jones III Hadn’t Failed to Incriminate Himself.

By Rich Miller

As you likely know by now, a federal jury deadlocked last week on all three corruption charges against Senator Emil Jones III (D-Chicago). U.S. District Judge Andrea Wood declared a mistrial after polling individual jurors and arriving at the conclusion that they could not possibly reach a verdict.

14 Apr 2025

Pritzker Advises Orgs to Make Cuts Where They Can Ahead of Trump’s Axe

By Rich Miller

Governor JB Pritzker said last week that the extreme uncertainty with the U.S. government and the international economy might mean that the legislature may have to reconvene to reconfigure the state budget after it adjourns at the end of next month.

07 Apr 2025

Illinois GOP Appears Eager to Employ Methods Foul and Fair to Nullify Dems’ Vote-by-Mail Advantage

By Rich Miller

You’ve probably read about the Republican Party implosion last week in suburban municipal and township campaigns, particularly in DuPage County.

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