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February 2017 Posts

Quick session day roundup (02-28)
ISBE says CPS early closure could cost it half its projected savings (02-28)
Question of the day (02-28)
AG Madigan's turn to snub Trump (02-28)
Vaporware lobbies up (02-28)
Pawar hires Trippi as chief strategist (02-28)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Both sides of proposed shoplifting penalty reduction (02-28)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Senate session coverage (02-28)
Help or hindrance? (02-28)
IDOC blames Cook sheriff for accidental inmate release (02-28)
What to expect today (02-28)
"Right to work" case appealed, oral arguments tomorrow (02-28)
Is Rauner betting on "Little Trump"? (02-28)
Steve Schnorf (02-28)
*** UPDATED x1 - AFSCME responds *** Rauner admin has new website for potential strike breakers (02-28)
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*** UPDATED x1 *** Get ready for more heated rhetoric (02-27)
Rauner wants fewer managed care companies to serve lots more Medicaid clients (02-27)
Question of the day (02-27)
What's with the secrecy? (02-27)
Pawar on Madigan (02-27)
It's just a bill (02-27)
"I don't know what else they can do but go on strike" (02-27)
Trib defends Rauner's tenure (02-27)
Biss to decide on bid soon (02-27)
Rauner skips White House dinner attended by 46 governors (02-27)
Emulate Trump at your peril (02-27)
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Reader comments closed for the weekend (02-24)
In which I agree with the governor (02-24)
Stuff you may not know about Illinois pensions (02-24)
It's just a bill (02-24)
Question of the day (02-24)
AG Madigan wants expansion of hate crime law (02-24)
Déjà vu all over again (02-24)
Rauner defends grand bargain parameters (02-24)
"We are proud to call him one of our own" (02-24)
Springfield holds its collective breath as strike talk mounts, budget impasse continues (02-24)
*** LIVE *** House session coverage (02-24)
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Adding insult to injury in higher ed (02-23)
Question of the day (02-23)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Fundraiser list (02-23)
Congresscritters who draw state pensions (02-23)
*** UPDATED x1 - ISP responds *** The Mendoza car saga continues, including a Rauner twist (02-23)
It's just a bill (02-23)
*** UPDATED x3 - Rauner response - 81 percent vote to authorize strike *** AFSCME strike vote authorization result announcement (02-23)
*** UPDATED x1 - Purvis responds *** Madigan forms another education funding task force (02-23)
Can Rauner's 25 percent prisoner reduction goal be met? (02-23)
Fisking Rauner (02-23)
*** UPDATED x1 - Backpedal begins *** Pritzker urges unusual "protest" (02-23)
Rauner dodges reporters (02-23)
*** LIVE *** House session coverage (02-23)
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AFSCME to announce strike authorization vote results tomorrow morning (02-22)
HGOPs fight back against Dem messaging on Rauner budget (02-22)
The appearance of access (02-22)
Today's number: $12,401,195,168.60 (02-22)
It's just a bill (02-22)
Question of the day (02-22)
STI death rates on the rise here, but we're way down the list (02-22)
Local reaction to new immigration order (02-22)
*** LIVE *** House session coverage (02-22)
Is a sales tax on food really regressive? (02-22)
*** UPDATED x1 *** 14 of 16 CPS Latino Advisory Committee members resign in protest (02-22)
Not surprisingly, local governments hate permanent property tax freeze idea (02-22)
*** UPDATED x1 *** SIU's Dunn: "We need to acknowledge that FY16 is now lost" (02-22)
Mystery solved on Rauner's whereabouts (02-22)
Would term limits make much of a difference? (02-22)
Study looks at how race of prez delegates may influence GOP primary voters here (02-22)
Kennedy fundraises off of proposed budget cuts (02-22)
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An image is worth a thousand, um, empty seats (02-21)
Then and now (02-21)
Budget cuts and some ways forward (02-21)
Ryan talks about the impasse (02-21)
Question of the day (02-21)
How to survive a crazy boss (02-21)
Grandstand rollout begins (02-21)
Both sides of the governor's involvement (02-21)
Cubs trophy coming to Springfield (02-21)
Another wave of bomb threats includes Chicago's Jewish Community Center (02-21)
It's just a bill (02-21)
Mendoza takes heat over used car purchase (02-21)
Getting to a "win" is important for some Dems (02-21)
Bustos won't run for governor (02-21)
Charlie Brown's football (02-21)
Reader comments closed for the holiday weekend (02-17)
Can't anybody play this game? (02-17)
Radogno: Pass the grand bargain by the end of this month or forget it (02-17)
Question of the day (02-17)
CMS warns comptroller over draining special funds (02-17)
*** UPDATED x3 *** ISBE to vote on settling Urban League school funding lawsuit (02-17)
*** UPDATED x1 - FY18 bills filed *** Get out your checkbook, Mr. Mayor (02-17)
Midway contract criticized (02-17)
Bob Michel passes away (02-17)
Another day, another Rauner campaign ad (02-17)
Clearing up a little confusion (02-17)
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Madigan orders committee to take up Thompson Center sale issue (02-17)
*** UPDATED x4 *** This just in... AG Madigan motion denied in St. Clair County (02-16)
Question of the day (02-16)
A quick look at one of the governor's "grand bargain" demands (02-16)
*** UPDATED x1 *** CTBA: Almost one of every five spending dollars isn't funded by governor's budget (02-16)
Asked and answered... in 2015 (02-16)
Democrats loudly and mockingly laughed at Rauner yesterday (02-16)
Cardinal Cupich speaks out against House abortion bill (02-16)
Rauner wants to merge IHPA with IDNR (02-16)
"Working together on grand bargain" (02-16)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (02-16)
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Rauner already campaigning on budget proposal (02-16)
He may not have mentioned them in the speech, but the governor did propose cuts (02-15)
Today's number: $5.1 billion (02-15)
Leaders respond to budget address (02-15)
Question of the day (02-15)
Rauner lays out his parameters on the Senate's grand bargain attempt (02-15)
On a lighter note (02-15)
Just get it done already (02-15)
Senate's office supply vendor not accepting new orders (02-15)
Lawsuit filed to block the Exelon bill (02-15)
Legislators criticize Rauner over AFSCME impasse (02-15)
Pritzker talks a bit about a possible run (02-15)
*** LIVE *** Session and budget address coverage (02-15)
Rauner previews budget speech, talks up Senate negotiations (02-15)
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*** UPDATED x1 - AG Madigan responds *** Rauner files motion in employee payroll case (02-15)
Our sorry state (02-14)
Rauner wants more state cops to help deal with expressway shootings (02-14)
How did we get here? (02-14)
*** UPDATED x1 - Rauner administration responds *** CPS, five parents file suit to declare Illinois school funding system "unlawful" (02-14)
White backs new school bus seat belt bill (02-14)
It's just a (Drew Peterson) bill (02-14)
Question of the day (02-14)
Rauner claims he was outspent (02-14)
Cullerton sends letter to AFSCME (02-14)
The dire consequences of continued inaction (02-14)
Mendoza demands Rauner propose real budget (02-14)
Manar takes Kennedy to task over school comments (02-14)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Candidates deal with the "Madigan question" (02-14)
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Rickert: "Who are you, and what have you done with Bruce Rauner?" (02-13)
*** UPDATED x1 *** House Dems lash out at both Rauner and Madigan (02-13)
Reader comments closed for the holiday weekend (02-10)
The impasse almost killed a baby (02-10)
Daiber to announce for governor (02-10)
It's just a bill (02-10)
Competing budget clocks (02-10)
Rush calls Madigan and Rauner "despots," compares them to King Kong and Godzilla (02-10)
Schimpf stresses the need for compromise, dings the Illinois Policy Institute (02-10)
Caption contest! (02-10)
Civic Federation releases fiscal blueprint (02-10)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Trump versus Madigan (02-10)
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Kennedy responds to GOP hit (02-09)
Another stumbling block (02-09)
Question of the day (02-09)
Kennedy aide denies report on planned spending (02-09)
ILGOP says Comptroller Mendoza "bought and paid for" by Madigan (02-09)
Pay Now Illinois files new lawsuit asking for same treatment as state workers (02-09)
Our sorry state (02-09)
Cassidy testimony kicks off women's agenda push (02-09)
CME's Duffy rattles his saber again (02-09)
*** UPDATED x1 - AFSCME responds *** Rauner takes his anti-Madigan message to state workers, threatens to veto payroll bill (02-09)
Calling out Rauner (02-09)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Focused like a laser (02-09)
"Bottom line: Grand bargain still alive" (02-09)
*** LIVE *** Session Coverage (02-09)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (02-09)
Question of the day (02-08)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Some Kennedy headlines don't quite match (02-08)
House Dems say they have questions about education funding report (02-08)
Kennedy responds to ILGOP attacks (02-08)
*** UPDATED x1 - Radogno urges "Present" votes *** This just in... Cullerton intends to start taking votes (02-08)
Pritzker releases statement in wake of Kennedy announcement (02-08)
Bustos already targeted by NRCC, but not Schneider (02-08)
Caption contest! (02-08)
3rd Annual "Cocktails with Capitol Fax" (02-08)
Chicago GOP chief to file ethics complaint against Claypool (02-08)
It's just a bill (02-08)
Payroll tax out, food and medicine tax in... for now (02-08)
*** UPDATED x1 - Rauner campaign weighs in*** ILGOP again ties Kennedy to Madigan (02-08)
*** UPDATED x2 - Issues formal statement - Kennedy confirms bid *** Adviser: Chris Kennedy is in the race (02-08)
Bustos will decide in a month (02-08)
"The man behind the fiscal fiasco in Illinois" (02-08)
*** LIVE *** Session Coverage (02-08)
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CPS students sent home with letter blasting Rauner (02-07)
More finger-pointing (02-07)
How are immigrants and refugees impacted by the impasse? (02-07)
Lawsuit filed over alleged lottery scam (02-07)
Schnorf: "These people can solve this problem" (02-07)
More like this, please (02-07)
Yet another failure (02-07)
Reproductive Health Care for all in Illinois (02-07)
Proft says his donors want GOPs like Radogno who are negotiating "surrender" with Dems "removed from the battlefield" (02-07)
Poll of Illinois Republicans finds support for unions (02-07)
*** LIVE *** Session Coverage (02-07)
ILGOP lashes out at Emanuel (02-07)
"A man-made byproduct of policy ultimatums placed upon the state's budget process" (02-07)
Education funding reform plan to be unveiled (02-07)
Emanuel on deal-making and dealing with Trump (02-07)
Rauner again insists that Mendoza pay workers without an appropriation or court order (02-07)
Republicans say there are problems with Democratic payroll bill (02-07)
*** UPDATED x1 *** DO NOT OPEN E-MAIL FROM DIANNA DONAKER (02-07)
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AG Madigan urges governor to take steps to protect Illinois residents from presidential orders on immigration (02-06)
Question of the day (02-06)
*** UPDATED x1 *** That's not getting anybody anywhere (02-06)
Maisch calls for response to Missouri "right to work" law (02-06)
Cullerton brings up retirement rumors (02-06)
About that pension reform proposal... (02-06)
*** UPDATED x1 *** *** LIVE VIDEO *** Cullerton's City Club speech (02-06)
What's up with her timing? (02-06)
It's still all about the suburbs (02-06)
Rauner called out for constant deflections (02-06)
It's just a bill (02-06)
Come one, come all! (02-06)
*** UPDATED x1 *** ILGOP: "Lisa Madigan is working for the Speaker" (02-06)
When snowflakes become a snowstorm (02-06)
The governor's new fig leaf (02-06)
Win one for the Schnorf (02-06)
We're about to be surrounded (02-06)
The root of "leadership" is "lead" (02-06)
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Reader comments closed for the weekend (02-03)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Grand bargain element under fire from NFL players union (02-03)
Munger hired as deputy governor (02-03)
Latest Rauner labor guy e-mail called "misinformation" (02-03)
Question of the day (02-03)
Ammons might be open to Davis challenge (02-03)
Today's quotable (02-03)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Citing "worst budgetary climate it has ever experienced," NEIU prez announces another round of furloughs (02-03)
6 downgrades in 2 years (02-03)
Radogno too? (02-03)
Even more lousy news (02-03)
COGFA releases grim revenue report (02-03)
Some state health insurance claims take 675 days to be paid (02-03)
*** UPDATED x1 *** It wasn't "top gang thugs," it was just one person, or community activists, or whatever (02-03)
Kadner blasts funding reform commission report (02-03)
What in the heck? (02-02)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Hearing set for AG motion (02-02)
Unclear on the concept (02-02)
*** UPDATED x1 - Rodney Davis, Randy Hultgren also targeted *** DCCC already targeting Roskam with full-time staff (02-02)
Question of the day (02-02)
Why did CTU call for Claypool's resignation? (02-02)
Cullerton does the media's job for them (02-02)
Our sorry state (02-02)
"Serious brain drain" (02-02)
Manar underwhelmed by school funding reform "framework" (02-02)
Rauner says he doesn't read stories about him, then slams stories about him (02-02)
Another punt in the works? (02-02)
Is this the end of the line for Cullerton? (02-02)
Downstate continues to be hollowed out (02-02)
Maybe take your own advice? (02-02)
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Maybe they could "chat" about how the programs were slashed (02-01)
*** UPDATED x4 *** Fitch downgrades Illinois over "unprecedented failure of the state to enact a full budget for two consecutive years" (02-01)
School funding commission produces "framework," leaves lots of questions (02-01)
Question of the day (02-01)
President says trading social programs for Chicago gang peace is "a great idea" (02-01)
Maybe he'll propose a real budget this time? (02-01)
Show 'em the pain (02-01)
Durbin and Duckworth urge Rauner to stand against Obamacare repeal as Bustos targeted on issue (02-01)
*** UPDATED x2 - HDems, HGOPs offer competing plans *** Face saver on state workers? (02-01)
Put it up for a vote (02-01)
The whims of CEOs (02-01)

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