Let’s get a basic definition out of the way first. You didn’t receive an “increase in benefits” if the cost of your benefits went up. Somebody else received the “increase” - your insurance company, a pharmaceutical company, a hospital or doctor - not you.
This sounds elementary. It probably has some name in […]
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Posted 29 August 2006
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Here’s the story. I never understood what Warner was doing with Iraq policywise (see here). Mark would have been better to avoid the topic than take the position he took. If Warner gets hammered on Iraq during the primary he deserves it - and he already will not get any votes from […]
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Posted 29 August 2006
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From today’s Daily Herald (link and hat tip to Capitol Fax):
“…House GOP™s political arm has spent nearly $200,000 before Labor Day, the traditional start of campaign season [on mailers attacking Democrat Tammy Duckworth].
The influx of mail is viewed as a sign Republicans are nervous about the prospects of their candidate, state Sen. Peter Roskam, in […]
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Posted 29 August 2006
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Kudos to Robert Kuttner for emphasizing the importance of Vice President Dick Cheney’s role in governing. The piece is short and by itself good - but bringing all the links to major profiles of Cheney and his ‘cabinet’ makes Kuttner’s piece a great resource. Read it.
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Posted 28 August 2006
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[Cross-posted at Feingold for Illinois]
After announcing late last week that he will introduce a fiscally responsible housing bill to help low-income Katrina survivors, Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold posted a blog entry at Huffington Post, “Helping People Make it Home Again, a Year after Katrina.” There Feingold acknowledges the continued plight of the residents of […]
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Posted 28 August 2006
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I was at the Stephenson County Fair this weekend (northwest corner of Illinois in the Freeport area) - a fair I’ve attended for a number of years. This year’s Stephenson County Democrats booth (two long tables - one of them covered with union material) seemed the fullest I’ve seen yet and was about double […]
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Posted 27 August 2006
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Liz Chaplin, a candidate for DuPage County Board, District 2, is currently a DuPage Water Commission Board member. I wrote a bit on her background here. Her campaign just sent out the following press release on fire and water safety for DuPage residents:
“Why in one of the most affluent counties in the country […]
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Posted 27 August 2006
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Estate tax repeal is a big agenda item for national Republicans and one that Republican Peter Roskam has trumpeted as he campaigns for congress in the Illinois 6th District to replace Congressman Henry Hyde. But just how many people would repealing the estate tax help in the 6th District where the median household income […]
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Posted 24 August 2006
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The Duckworth Congressional Campaign announced the endorsement of the Illinois Education Association (IEA) and the (AFL-CIO) Illinois Federation of Teachers (IFT) unions on Tuesday. The IEA, largely covering DuPage County among other areas, has about 7,500 members in the 6th Congressional District and the IFT, largely covering Cook County among other areas, has about […]
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Posted 24 August 2006
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DuPage County Board Chair Robert Schillerstrom next year will have spent all of the $75 million from the DuPage Water Commission funds he raided in 2003 at $15 million a year. The money was supposed to be for homeland security spending - it really was to delay reckoning with a county budget that has […]
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Posted 23 August 2006
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