edited by: Douglas Welch,
Illinois Editor
The Tribune is reporting today that the Chicago Board of Education will spend more taxpayer money to "hire a former federal prosecutor to investigate how members use their taxpayer-financed expense accounts." The move was prompted by Chicago Tribune inquiries into spending by the late board president Michael Scott, who committed suicide [...]
We're not proned to making fundraising suggestions to our ideological opponents, but maybe Illinois Democrats might want to tap into their never-ending supply of something similar to what the innovative staff of a Bloomington zoo is using to raise over $16k this month.
Staffers make decorations out of droppings' [...]
Now that roughly one-quarter of the money allocated in President Obama's stimulus plan has flown out the door, a consensus among economists about the effectiveness of the package is emerging. The New York Times' reports:
The legislation, a variety of economists say, is helping an economy in free fall a year ago to [...]
From the Washington Post's Chris Cillizza -- "For our money, the best ads we've seen so far in the 2010 midterms are in Illinois for Republican gubernatorial candidate Andy McKenna. McKenna, a former state party chair, has featured the famous hair of disgraced former Gov." [...]
by John Brown's Ghost
For the last few years, many of us have been screaming from the frozen mountaintops that global warming is a farce intended to make lots of money for those that are warning of ocean covered coasts and melting ice sheets. Profiteers like Al' [...]
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WASHINGTON--As Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Saturday leads a tour of the nearly vacant Thomson Correctional Center--a top Obama White House contender to house Guantanamo detainees--the White House released its first detailed economic impact statement on the jobs and money that will be channeled to northwestern Illinois if the [...]
Revenue dropped nearly $4 million this summer compared to the same time last year.
That's interesting especially considering that city officials say they handed out 12,000 more tickets this summer.
Last week, the [...]
by Mark Silva
The White House is pushing back on the alleged "fiction'' of jobs created or saved under the $787-billion federal timulus bill - particularly what it views as the fiction surrounding reports that Recovery.gov, the official online accounting of where all the money is going, listed all sorts" [...]
Yesterday afternoon, as part of the Campaign for a Better Health Care's annual conference, Gov. Pat Quinn and Democratic primary challenger Dan Hynes engaged in an hour-long debate on health care reform. Because it costs the state money to provide coverage to the poor and to protect public health, the [...]
A few months back, a coalition of community activists from across Chicago met at City Hall to call out the Daley administration for investing so few tax increment financing (TIF) dollars in affordable housing. After all, over the past decade, a mere 4 percent of the economic development money has gone towards [...]
WASHINGTON--Senate Democrats defeated Tuesday a bid by Republicans to bar money being spent for prisons--that would include a proposed Gitmo North in Illinois--to take detainees from Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba. This is only the first skirmish. Attorney General Eric Holder testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee [...]
Chicago will be free to demolish hundreds of abandoned homes in suburban Bensenville to make way for new runways at O’Hare Airport, thanks to a $16 million settlement advanced by a City Council committee Monday.
Peace has been in [...]
Todd Stroger's inadequacies weren't the only topics of discussion at yesterday's forum for the Democrats vying for Cook County Board president. Two of Stroger's rivals also weighed in against one of Mayor Daley's: his resistance to full disclosure of how hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer money [...]
by Richard A. Viguerie
You probably think you've never given money to ACORN and its allies. But if you've contributed to the annual November Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) appeal of the Catholic bishops, you've done just that.
Each November, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops asks Catholics across the United' [...]
I recently ate at a restaurant where the tab was $500 for two people. $115/plate + a bottle champagne and other drinks adds up pretty quickly in Chicago. You have to go up to Chicago to waste that kind of money. But why does it have to be that way?! [...]
Last week, a group of housing activists showed up at Cook County Board President Todd Stroger's office demanding to know why he hasn't spent a dime of the estimated $15 million collected in foreclosure filing fees on mediation services, which are proven to help people hang onto their homes. "Where is that money' [...]
Two witnesses in an investigation by Northwestern University journalism students told investigators they were paid, prosecutors alleged today.
The witnesses, Tony Drakes and Michael Lane, told investigators with the state's attorney's office that they were given money in the hopes that' [...]
