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Powerful Illinois Democrats Circle Wagons to Protect Colleague After Incident at Tavern

March 28th, 2011 · No Comments

If you wondered what I was doing this weekend instead of writing, I have an excuse:  Along with a handful of fellow Andrew Breitbart contributors, I spent much of the weekend trying to track down people involved in a St. Patrick’s Day incident that resulted in the resignation of Ken Snider, a man who serves [...]

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No Disharmony in Obama’s Adopted Hometown?

March 15th, 2009 · No Comments

In a post Wednesday, I reported that a joint anti-war protest and immigrants rights rally was set to take place today in Pilsen, the heart of the Chicago’s Latino community.  And it did.  Unfortunately, it appears most Chicago media outlets seem content with providing little or no coverage of the rally.  Perhaps, it’s part of [...]

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Governor BLAGOing, BLAGOing, BLAGOne!

January 29th, 2009 · 2 Comments

By a 59-0 vote of the Illinois Senate, Gov. Rod Blagojevich was impeached this afternoon in Springfield. The 52-year-old Democrat becomes the first sitting governor in the Land of Lincoln’s pockmarked history of corruption to be impeached, convicted and booted out of office. He will, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune, be replaced [...]

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Court Rules Illinois Secretary of State Does Not Have to Sign Letter Appointing Burris to Senate

January 9th, 2009 · 2 Comments

The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled that Secretary of State Jesse White does not need to acknowledge via his signature the letter Gov. Rod Blagojevich used to appoint Roland Burris to the represent the Land of Lincoln in the U.S. Senate. Delivered by Justice Lloyd A. Karmeier, the ruling in Burris v. White appears to [...]

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Illinois Legislature Resumes Roadkill Cleanup

June 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Only four days after publishing a post, Roadkill Could Help Fight Hunger in Illinois, I read a Chicago Tribune article this morning about the Illinois legislature’s decision over the weekend to throw $20 million at the program and resume roadkill cleanup. Because it’s unclear at this point how resumption of roadkill cleanup activities in the [...]

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