You can go to a vigil in downtown Naperville, corner of Washington and Chicago, 6:30 - 7:30 PM tomorrow to honor the 2,000 American soldiers who have now died in Iraq. It’s an opportunity for reflection, and a chance to support withdrawal, so that no more soldiers and their families will pay the awful […]
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Posted 25 October 2005
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Potential GOP Candidate Judy Baar Topinka will run for governor if the national party promises to deliver the funds to her should she win the Republican primary. Judy’s supposedly looking for $4-5 million. You can’t blame her, looking at Governor Rod Blagojevich’s $14 million, and it’s a measure of where the national GOP […]
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Posted 22 October 2005
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Hat tip to Mark Goldsher. U.S. Attorney and Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald launched a new Office of Special Counsel website with key documents and, likely, for upcoming developments in the case involving the exposing of CIA agent Valerie Plame (Wilson) and possible White House involvement. Fitzgerald has been presenting evidence to a grand […]
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Posted 21 October 2005
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The Chicago Tribune is reporting that despite an over $20 billion a year federal “effort to boost student achievement, average reading scores for the nation’s 4th graders haven’t budged, and 8th graders’ scores have declined.” In math testing scores continue to “rise modestly.”
President George W. Bush, spinning the results, said that they show “a […]
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Posted 20 October 2005
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Rob Bisceglie has been busy. Since launching his campaign for District 45 State Representative in September, Bisceglie has done everything from helping a local food pantry get much needed food donations to organizing a protest to demand funding for James “Pate” Philip (formerly Tri-County) State Park in Bartlett, the only state park in the […]
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Posted 19 October 2005
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While I think Governor Rod Blagojevich’s new All Kids healthcare plan is a good step in the right direction, I want to go further, and cover everyone - young and old. I’ve spoken to Rob Bisceglie, candidate for House District 45 about this a bit, and he’s for a system of healthcare for all […]
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Posted 19 October 2005
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Hat tip to David Sirota.
This was going to be about another Bush Administration political scandal. About how political appointees over-ruled professionals to the detriment of the American public. About how critical facts were twisted to fit the Administration’s spin. But David Sirota lists a number of such instances above - […]
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Posted 18 October 2005
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This is a catch-up post. Recently Rich Miller pointed out the great news that OfficeMax is consolidating its two headquarters and moving to a single headquarters in Naperville. The additional jobs are great! But why in the third best place to live in the country according to a business-oriented magazine is Illinois paying […]
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Posted 18 October 2005
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“Political Animal” Kevin Drum of the Washington Monthly and Paul Krugman of the New York Times (subscription required) yesterday both made reference to the economic importance of American national healthcare for General Motors (and business in general) - and how business has failed to support it.
Kevin Drum writes,
“Hmmm, I wonder if there are any other […]
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Posted 18 October 2005
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From the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, “Young adults increasingly bear the brunt of inflation,”
“Buying power is actually going down, especially for those on the lower rungs of the work force.
For blue-collar and nonmanagement jobs, the bottom 80 percent of workers, average weekly earnings after the effect of inflation fell 2.7 percent during the year ended in […]
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Posted 18 October 2005
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