Brilliant Economic Development: Sun-Times Wants a Bigger Prison Industry in Illinois. John Powers, Chicago Daily Observer
From Friedman for Congress:For the 2010 election cycle:
Harry Reid (D-NV) - $289,028 Charles Schumer (D-NY) - $171,670 Byron Dorgan (D-ND) - $170,177 Patty Murray (D-WA) - $154,192 Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) - $135,949 Arlen Specter (D-PA) - $133,560 Blanche Lincoln (D-AK) - $126,285 Daniel Inouye (D-HI) - $119,173 Richard Burr (R-NC) - $105,299 Chris Dodd (D-CT) - $87,800 [...]from the Vernon Township GOP
Lincolnshire, IL Dec 8, 2009: Vernon Township's Monday evening GOP endorsement session surprised local incumbents Congressman Mark Kirk (R-IL 10) and IL State Senator Matt Murphy (R-27), who both failed to garner the nod in their respective state-wide races for US Senate and Lt. Governor. Kirk [...]
If Blanche Lincoln has her way, the Democrats will vote tomorrow to limit health care execs salaries to no more than what the President makes. In other words, $400,000. Saturday, the Democrats stopped a Republican attempt to restore Medicare cuts with 18 votes to spare. Sunday, the President will go [...]
Here is a photo of the map on the Park District sign in Lincoln Park at Montrose and LSD.An advisory/reminder that a batch of freed-up tickets to Songs of Good Cheer will go on sale Tuesday morning by phone or in person at the Old Town School of Folk Music on Lincoln Avenue (773-728-6000). Another way to get tickets is to be one of the winners of this [...]
Members of Chicago area homeschool groups will participate in a Homeschool Holiday Craft Fair next month at the Ethical Humanist Society at 7574 N. Lincoln Ave. in Skokie.
The fair is free and takes place:
Friday December 4, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturday [...]
Somehow, this scene from 1991's "Thelma and Louise" came to mind while reviewing what happened yesterday in the US Senate. US Senator Mary Landrieu got $100 (or $300) million for Louisiana and US Senator Blanche Lincoln got something valuable for her home state of Arkansas to be the 59th and 60th' [...]
by Jeffrey Young
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has secured the vital 60th vote he needs to advance healthcare reform legislation with the announcement by Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) that she will vote with her party Saturday evening. Read more
Watch the debate live, to begin shortly on [...]
WASHINGTON--Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) just announced from the Senate floor--in a rare Saturday session--that she will vote to allow the Democratic championed health care legislation to proceed. Democratic Senate leaders needed a supermajority, 60 votes, to avoid a filibuster and proceed to the underlying legislation. The vote on the [...]
Mary Schmich of the Tribune did a column Friday about the friendship between a Lincoln Park woman and an Uptown street person, the late Wanda Jean Taylor. It's moving and compassionate, and shows the beauty and trials that occur when two very different people open themselves' [...]
