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* School districts’ wait for state funding relief almost over

* Consumer Confidence plummets

* Obama comes home to raise more money

* Kerry endorses Obama

* Email slams GOP chairman

McHenry County Republican Party Chairman Bill LeFew’s anonymous mailing of a newspaper column criticizing the incumbent state’s attorney has prompted a longtime precinct committeeman to call for his resignation.

In an e-mail sent Wednesday evening to party central committee members, Nunda Township precinct committeeman Bernie Narusis lashed out at LeFew, accusing him of political dirty tricks for mailing GOP voters a Daily Herald opinion column criticizing State’s Attorney Lou Bianchi’s $60,000 in office expenses.

* Bitter McHenry GOP dispute intensifies

* Giuliani to speak at GOP luncheon in Springfield

* Daley opens the door to closing half-empty schools

* Area towns line up to support
fermilab
funding

* Bean, Scheurer weigh Iraq war; talk energy

* Mayor to use new law to fill open seat

* Dems debate in Cook County State’s attorney’s race, more here

* Tri-Cities debate turns into civil affair

* Hearings set on Ameren’s request to hike rates

* Highway 94 repaving to begin in March

* Friday Beer Blogging: beer brick edition

posted by Kevin Fanning
Friday, Jan 11, 08 @ 9:22 am

Comments

  1. Kevin, didn’t Paul teach you? The only way you’re going to make it in this business is if you include Rich’s Sun-Times stories in the Morning Shorts.

    Today Rich blames just about everybody. LOL.

    Comment by The 'Broken Heart' of Rogers Park Friday, Jan 11, 08 @ 9:28 am

  2. Morning Shorts doesn’t include the stories that will get their own posts. Broken should know that by now.

    Comment by Rich Miller Friday, Jan 11, 08 @ 9:42 am

  3. I live near a section of I-94 that has had construction for about the past five months,
    northern Lake Co. A section that is about five miles long is being widened, and it has several signs which state, “Construction zone, speed limit 45 M.P.H., fines $375 minimum.” However, I noticed that almost all of the cars are being driven at least 50 M.P.H. I’ve never seen any police officers give any tickets, in that area. If the highway patrol enforced the laws, by pulling over the majority of the speeders, the state probably wouldn’t have a budget problem.

    Comment by PhilCollins Friday, Jan 11, 08 @ 10:20 am

  4. The Cook Co. States Attny race is turning very interesting. It seems like people see Milan as the frontrunner, because he’s always defending himself. I don’t understand why he’s defending Devine if Devine won’t endorse him.

    Devine was 1st asst under Daley when all the tortures happened. Milan wasn’t there. I think I would rather have him be the SA than any of these other machine hacks. The same for Alvarez. Neither of them has any backing, so they’re independant.

    Comment by Matlock Friday, Jan 11, 08 @ 10:22 am

  5. Rich, what no link to your paper’s op ed
    piece by Gloria Steinem in yesterday’s
    Sun Times?(Jan 10) Doesn’t that belong under
    Obamarama? Perhaps I missed it on this site,
    but it was in the New York Times also, and,
    was quite interesting.

    Comment by amy Friday, Jan 11, 08 @ 11:19 am

  6. Good point Matlock. Milan is in a tough situation. He has to defend Devine’s policies but Devine isn’t endorsing him. Milan is being attacked for the Burge cases even though he was in college at the time. Devine needs to step up and say this was my office and my policies, otherwise he really is stabbing Milan in the back.

    Comment by Mad as Hell Friday, Jan 11, 08 @ 11:24 am

  7. Amy, the Sun-Times is not “my paper.” I just write for them occasionally.

    Comment by Rich Miller Friday, Jan 11, 08 @ 11:27 am

  8. Devine needs to pick a candidate. Enough of just going to all of Bob Milans’ fundraisers, makes speaches praising Milan while at the event and then sitting on the fence once he leaves the event.
    By Devines silence just shows the amount of loyalty he has for the office, by not letting the voters know who he thinks is the right person for the position. So it is a free for all as it stands now.
    Milan knows the office and lives and breaths the office. Milan will not use the office as a stepping stone as the other candidates will attempt to do.

    Comment by SLICK Friday, Jan 11, 08 @ 4:52 pm

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