Education funding in Illinois is a mess. State funding of education is near the bottom for all states in the U.S. Clearly the heavy reliance on local property taxes is unfair to property owners throughout the property value spectrum. In areas of modestly priced homes, children’s education is often under-funded. In […]
According to today’s Naperville Sun, Illinois State Representative Jim Meyer, fresh off his recent website launch of “Save Our OBs,” where he cunningly adopted the pseudonym “Ruth Munson” - not to be confused with Illinois State Representative “Ruth Munson” of Elgin - is back at it with a new website, according to the Naperville Sun, […]
Speaking of anti-immigration Republicans, firebrand Colorado House member Tom Tancredo has carefully suggested that House Majority Leader Tom DeLay should step aside until the allegations of illegal and unethical activity by DeLay are cleared. Yesterday, Tancredo said,
“If the majority leader were to temporarily step aside so that these trumped up charges can be […]
It was late last night, and not being part of the intended audience (GOP primary voters), I discounted the Alan Keyes carpetbagger effect in Jim Oberweis’ “I’m from Illinois!” message (Oberweis came in second in the Republican Senate primary to Jack Ryan, but was passed over by the out-of-state/out-of-mind Keyes as a Ryan replacement against […]
[Editor Note: See my updated consideration of the “Alan Keyes effect” on Oberweis’ “I’m from Illinois!” message - but what I wrote below still stands.]
Former U.S. Senate hopeful, Republican dairyman and investor Jim Oberweis is officially running for Illinois governor - but his message hasn’t changed much. I don’t know who’s running communications […]
Today a group from DuPage, Democracy for Illinois (part of Democracy for America), Illinois and DuPage National Organization for Women (NOW) and DuPage Democrats gathered at U.S. House member Judy Biggert’s Clarendon Hills office to tell her that we are against privatizing Social Security. This was part of a statewide and nationwide event inspired […]
While at political science graduate school in the early 90’s I spent some time studying facial “affect,” or how non-verbal, physical “cues” communicate with people. I ended up co-authoring an American Political Science Association conference paper on the 1994 Democratic gubernatorial primary in Illinois (which Dawn Clark Netsch won - and understandably, at least […]
From today’s Chicago Tribune:
“Taking advantage of interest rates lower than those of four years ago, DuPage County Board members voted Tuesday to refinance their 2001 sale of transportation revenue bonds in a deal that will save the county up to $4.7 million over 16 years to help pay for road improvements.
The county plans to use […]
Many of you have no doubt seen George W. Bush’s “resume” highlighting all of his impressive failures that frequently gets emailed around. It gets updated periodically, as Bush’s failures grow more extensive and notable. Yesterday’s New York Times has a good one for the “W” resume - wage losses for the vast majority […]
Yesterday the Chair of the DuPage County Board, Robert Schillerstrom, issued a statement about the vote of the County Board to endorse O’Hare expansion after years of opposition - without putting notice of the vote on an agenda as required by the Illinois Open Meetings Act.
“It has been my contention and that of the board […]
