The Indian Prairie District 204 board vote locating the new Metea High School at the Eola site was unanimous according to today’s Naperville Sun. They hope to start construction in March.
Fred dropping out made me think, with modification, of Neil Young’s “Campaigner“:
“I am a lonely visitor.
I came to late to cause a stir,
Though I campaigned all my life [just barely]
towards that goal.”
Clearly Fred was a candidate, if ever there was one, looking to be embraced by a movement. Good year to bet on it, […]
Democrat Bill Foster picked up another two newspaper endorsements while Democrat John Laesch picked up another union endorsement this past week. Foster gained the endorsement of the DeKalb Daily Chronicle and the Kane County Chronicle after picking up the Chicago Tribune’s endorsement last week. Laesch picked up the endorsement of International Brotherhood of […]
[Hat tip Wego Web]
Hard to imagine he’s got a got a ghost of a chance - but take a look at Republican Congressional Candidate Michael Dilger’s website - you’re unlikely to see another congressional candidate with one like it. Supposedly Dilger is doing internet radio too.
You can read a summary (and then the original Op Ed) regarding how home foreclosures lack comparable protection here. While what Jack Kemp is advocating sounds like good policy, I’m also interested in how this situation came to be - how is it that home loans (secured by homes) are treated differently than other […]
Really, that’s what this boils down to.
[Hat tip TPM]
This is the first major newspaper endorsement in the 14th congressional race. Check it out here. You can also watch the Tribune’s Editorial Board interviews of the candidates here.
From the Jill Morgenthaler Congressional Campaign:
“The Chicago Tribune and the Daily Herald are the latest in a slew of Democratic Primary endorsements from prominent public officials and organizations including President Bill Clinton’s 1992 Campaign Manager and former DNC Chair David Wilhelm, Illinois Tollway Commissioner Brian McPartlin, Illinois AFL-CIO, Illinois Federation of Teachers, United Auto Workers, […]
In the DuPage County Board District 3 Republican Primary “The Doings” newspaper picked challenger John Curran over the two incumbents - and then found an incumbent to support by default (it’s a pick two situation). Not exactly a vote of confidence for the incumbents - but given the lack of planning that led to […]
Both the Illinois House and Senate passed the half-billion dollar state transit funding bill today averting a mass transit crisis by days. The bill of necessity included Governor Rod Blagojevich’s last minute amendatory veto demand that seniors 65 and older ride mass transit free. As reported in Capitol Fax, the General Assembly is […]
