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March 2017 Posts

Reader comments closed for the weekend (03-31)
*** UPDATED x2 - Cochran apologizes - ILGOP responds *** Mendoza wrongly claims Rauner laughed at "rape culture" comment (03-31)
Another hostage goes down (03-31)
Question of the day (03-31)
Manar won't run for governor (03-31)
7 shot dead and barely a peep is heard (03-31)
Where's Roger? (03-31)
The peril of deliberate budgetary inaction (03-31)
Pritzker vows to fight Rauner consolidation move (03-31)
Rauner, Dems raise money ahead of deadline (03-31)
Edgar to Springfield: Do your job (03-31)
More bad news for higher education (03-31)
Rauner's Acting Labor Director bails after six weeks (03-31)
Rauner to make ALPLM a separate agency (03-31)
*** LIVE *** Steve Schnorf's "celebration of life" (03-30)
People, we really need a budget (03-30)
Rauner again hammers Mendoza over tech funding (03-30)
Because.... Madigan! (03-30)
*** UPDATED x1 - Mendoza responds *** Republicans put Statehouse tracker on Mendoza (03-30)
Our sorry state (03-30)
This year's version of the "AFSCME bill" (03-30)
Audit finds Chicago State University has serious administrative problems (03-30)
Legislators explain opposition to legalized pot, while Summers announces support (03-30)
RGA spending at least a million dollars on Rauner TV ads (03-30)
Moody's again warns state on budget gridlock (03-30)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (03-30)
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Open thread (03-29)
An Illinois beverage tax would cut jobs and raise costs on working families (03-29)
Question of the day (03-29)
It's just a bill (03-29)
King Coal is no more (03-29)
Illinois sets new voter registration record (03-29)
*** UPDATED x2 *** What's on tap today? (03-29)
*** UPDATED x1 - Munger responds *** Mendoza files intent to appeal legislative pay ruling (03-29)
*** UPDATED x1 ILGOP responds *** Kinda like kiddie soccer (03-29)
It is time to reform civil asset forfeiture (03-29)
Paper calls Mendoza "another slave to Madigan's Chicago Democrats" (03-29)
Where do the candidates stand on marijuana? (03-29)
Kennedy has hereditary disorder (03-29)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (03-29)
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Question of the day (03-28)
An Illinois beverage tax would cut jobs and raise costs on working families (03-28)
Rauner compares Statehouse battle to "trench warfare," says he's "energized" and "we're winning" (03-28)
It's just a bill (03-28)
Don't kill the golden goose (03-28)
Today's must-read (03-28)
The feud is dragging us down (03-28)
Steve Schnorf arrangements (03-28)
*** UPDATED x3- Mendoza says "No" - Could Mendoza do something on her own? - ILGOP responds *** Mendoza to pay some bills, lashes out at Rauner (03-28)
Director Shah tosses more patients to the curb (03-28)
Study finds integration could boost the Chicago-area's economy (03-28)
CTBA tallies up what Chicago could lose (03-28)
*** UPDATED x3 - There is a problem with zoning - Durkin weighs in - Rauner whacks Madigan *** Madigan scolds Rauner on Thompson Center sale (03-28)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (03-28)
Republicans, Rauner react to Democratic candidates (03-28)
*** UPDATED x1 - Rauner explains why he's airing TV ads *** Rauner in new TV ads touting his agenda (03-28)
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Report: Kennedy's hands shook during speech, dropped mic (03-27)
Rauner honors tireless volunteer (03-27)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Question of the day (03-27)
What could Chicago lose? (03-27)
It's just a bill (03-27)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Harmon doesn't see budget passed until 2019, Biss agrees (03-27)
Sen. Bill Brady, others hit with fake news robocall (03-27)
*** UPDATED with live coverage *** Today's quotable (03-27)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Two sides battle over CPS funding lawsuit (03-27)
*** UPDATED x1 *** DC publication looks at Biss' Madigan ties (03-27)
*** UPDATED x1 - Speaker Madigan responds *** Rauner wants tollway vote this week (03-27)
Kankakee transit agency still struggling with impasse (03-27)
React rolls in to legislator pay case (03-27)
Poll: 66 percent of Illinoisans support legalization of "recreational marijuana" (03-27)
Where are the women candidates? (03-27)
"This is basically fraud" (03-27)
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*** UPDATED x1 *** Chris Kennedy busts the contribution cap in governor's race (03-27)
Reader comments closed for the weekend (03-24)
*** UPDATED x2 - Emanuel responds - Cullerton responds *** Rauner vetoes Chicago pension fund bill (03-24)
State ban on med-mar campaign contributions struck down by federal judge (03-24)
Question of the day (03-24)
Vendor is hacked, Rauner admin calls out Mendoza (03-24)
So, what will Vallas do? (03-24)
The high price of deliberate inaction (03-24)
A completely bogus Democratic argument (03-24)
Caption contest! (03-24)
Durkin says he has 26 votes for pension reform and one-year CPS funding (03-24)
Leader Radogno: "No Governor's spokesman, even Goldberg speaks for the Senate caucus" (03-24)
*** UPDATED x1 - Mendoza slammed, too *** Republican Party pounces on AG Madigan (03-24)
Rauner says his Colorado friends are telling him "pretty terrible things" about legal weed (03-24)
When Springfield is in Atlanta (03-24)
Poll: Half of Illinoisans want to keep Obamacare, a third say state impasse has affected them, 41 percent blame the government for poverty (03-24)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Supplement to today’s edition (03-24)
Rauner source on grand bargain: "As far as we’re concerned, it’s dead" (03-24)
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*** UPDATED x8 - Mendoza processing checks "now" - Another ILGOP response - Order posted - Comptroller's office responds to questions - AG Madigan's office responds - Munger responds - ILGOP responds - Welch responds *** Mendoza will release legislative pay checks, but will appeal (03-23)
News from the front (03-23)
Illinois employment finally reaches milestone (03-23)
Question of the day (03-23)
Even Luxembourg is ticked off at us now (03-23)
Let's celebrate the holiday! (03-23)
It's just a bill (03-23)
We're bleeding out (03-23)
Rauner disses "part-time" legislators (03-23)
Mom testifies about how the impasse almost killed her baby (03-23)
Rauner says terror attack here "just a matter of time" so "we've got to be ready" (03-23)
Illinois ranks in the middle of the pack on "innovation" (03-23)
More CPS finger-pointing (03-23)
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Pritzker oppo dump goes back 30 years (03-23)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (03-23)
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The consequences of deliberate inaction (03-22)
Squeezing the higher ed beast (03-22)
More like this, please (03-22)
Rauner gives mostly reasonable response, blasted as "chicken" (03-22)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Question of the day (03-22)
Today's quotable (03-22)
Unintended consequences for state bonds? (03-22)
Another way our schools are inequitably funded (03-22)
Cyber war heats up between Rauner and Mendoza (03-22)
It's just a bill (03-22)
Biss begins campaign (03-22)
Fardon replacement results in more finger-pointing (03-22)
A Proven Budget Solution (03-22)
124 prison nursing jobs to be privatized (03-22)
Support House Bill 40 (03-22)
Emanuel spokesman claims Rauner has "lost touch with reality" (03-22)
Our sorry state (03-22)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (03-22)
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Posner shoots down "fair share" appeal (03-21)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (03-21)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Events list (03-20)
*** UPDATED x1 - AFSCME responds *** Supreme Court denies AG Madigan motion for direct appeal (03-20)
Question of the day (03-20)
*** UPDATED x2 - "Rauneritis" - Rauner admin responds *** Mendoza lashes back at Rauner (03-20)
Mendoza under fire yet again by Team Rauner (03-20)
Rauner reportedly pushing to make Vallas president of CSU (03-20)
Opioid overdose deaths are skyrocketing (03-20)
Biss takes on the "Madigan question" (03-20)
*** UPDATED x1 - AFSCME clarifies *** Rauner admin says it's "delighted" with AFSCME response, but AFSCME is puzzled (03-20)
Same day registration increases turnout here (03-20)
FOP oppo dump (03-20)
Griffin still state's richest person (03-20)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Judge to Gonzales: Come back when you have "at least one viable claim" (03-20)
A closer look at that Simon poll and what it bodes for the future (03-20)
Good morning! (03-20)
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*** UPDATED x2 - Pawar responds - ILGOP responds *** Biss set to make announcement tomorrow (03-19)
Reader comments closed for the weekend (03-17)
*** UPDATED x1 - AFSCME responds *** Rauner files direct appeal to Supreme Court on AFSCME case (03-17)
Wells Center board votes to postpone closure (03-17)
Question of the day (03-17)
Poll: Voters want cuts to waste, not programs; prefer tax hikes on millionaires, not themselves (03-17)
Judge says lawmaker inaction has delegated authority to comptroller (03-17)
Edge or thrive? (03-17)
*** UPDATED x2 - Rauner admin responds - ILGOP responds *** Bill backlog now equals $1,000 per Illinoisan (03-17)
Everything old is new again (03-17)
"Repeal and replace" bill could blow a $4 billion hole in Illinois budget (03-17)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Summers poll has Kennedy at 44 percent in three-way race with Pritzker (03-17)
*** LIVE *** State coverage (03-17)
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No ruling in legislative pay case (03-16)
It's just a bill (03-16)
Question of the day (03-16)
Poll: 82 percent say Illinois is on wrong track, 62 percent oppose pop tax (03-16)
CPS testifies against elected school board (03-16)
CMS talks strike preparedness (03-16)
ILGOP throws kitchen sink at Ammons (03-16)
Sweet Chicago public housing deal for Miami Dolphins owner goes horribly sour (03-16)
Bill pulled after high costs questioned (03-16)
*** UPDATED x2 *** Rauner pension plan offer not fully rejected by Emanuel (03-16)
Caption contest! (03-16)
Illinois Policy Institute among groups opposing "dark money" reform bill (03-16)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (03-16)
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GOMB director: ¯_(ツ)_/¯ (03-15)
Question of the day (03-15)
On poverty and violence (03-15)
It's just a bill (03-15)
Birth certificate bill clears committee (03-15)
SEIU loses JCAR OT fight (03-15)
Simon poll: Rauner disapproval at 58, Madigan 61 (03-15)
Support House Bill 40 (03-15)
Caption contest! (03-15)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Rauner says he'll sign a pension bill, but will it get to him? (03-15)
Another cost of the impasse (03-15)
Despite sharp criticisms, center director refuses to blame Mendoza (03-15)
IDOC says crime bill will save state money (03-15)
Don’t Let Big Soda Sugarcoat the Facts (03-15)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (03-15)
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Lipinski may face primary foe (03-14)
*** UPDATED x2 - ILGOP plays Madigan/Blagojevich cards *** Pritzker files paperwork to form exploratory committee, will contribute $200K for "day to day operations" (03-14)
Question of the day (03-14)
Madigan sets Medicaid hearing in wake of US House push (03-14)
Oberweis makes horrible analogy (03-14)
Rauner calls for more taxes to fund infrastructure plan (03-14)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (03-14)
Fardon makes suggestions on his way out the door (03-14)
Support House Bill 40 (03-14)
S&P: Illinois "approaching service level insolvency" (03-14)
Another hostage on death's door (03-14)
Uh-oh (03-14)
Today's number: One-third of one percent (03-14)
BGA wants more e-mails from Emanuel administration (03-14)
The rest of the story (03-14)
We didn't get here by chance (03-14)
Huge power grab or major legal stretch? (03-14)
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Reader comments closed until Tuesday (03-10)
Open thread (03-10)
Better late than never, I suppose (03-10)
Big December job loss turns into job gain (03-10)
WBEZ hosts Rauner again (03-10)
Gridlock spreads to crime bill (03-10)
Democrats lash out at Rauner for demanding cuts and not specifying them (03-10)
Rauner administration pushes back hard on Munger pay story (03-10)
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Supt. Johnson gets his day in Springfield (03-09)
Question of the day (03-09)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Up your game, Chris (03-09)
Unclear on the concept (03-09)
It just gets worse by the day (03-09)
Et tu, Tillman? (03-09)
Madigan to advance bill to give ALPLM its own board (03-09)
About those Tax Foundation "business climate" scores (03-09)
The big squeeze on higher education (03-09)
Rauner appeals Mendoza court win (03-09)
More horrific pension news (03-09)
Rauner announces new hate crimes initiatives (03-09)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Supplement to today’s (03-09)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (03-09)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (03-09)
Something's definitely missing from this list (03-08)
Question of the day (03-08)
Our sorry state (03-08)
Some good news for a change (03-08)
CTU to consider another one-day strike (03-08)
How a pension sweetener might actually save money (03-08)
*** UPDATED x3 - Steve Brown responds - Mendoza responds - AG Madigan responds *** Rauner blasts Mendoza, judges, AG Madigan (03-08)
Today's quotable (03-08)
What the governor was talking about yesterday (03-08)
AG Madigan wants to lift statute of limitations on child sex crimes (03-08)
A look at striker replacements (03-08)
Senate Dems attempt to turn tables on Rauner over budget cuts (03-08)
There’s a hard truth behind soft drinks (03-08)
Mendoza prevails in St. Clair County (03-08)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (03-08)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Lisa Madigan to ask Supremes for ruling on state worker pay (03-08)
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Rauner isn't thrilled with ACA replacement proposal (03-07)
Question of the day (03-07)
Maybe they're both right? (03-07)
Think before you tweet (03-07)
No self-awareness at all (03-07)
Even more bad budget news (03-07)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (03-07)
Playing with fire (03-07)
*** UPDATED x1 - Rauner admin responds *** Mendoza: "Rauner is trying to drive our State into bankruptcy" (03-07)
Support House Bill 40 (03-07)
It's just a (dental) bill (03-07)
Costello opponent echoes Trump, blames Madigan (03-07)
Gill says he will run again (03-07)
The big squeeze on higher ed (03-07)
Poll: Illinoisans think government spends too much, taxes too high, don't want tax hikes (03-07)
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Who are you and what have you done with the Tribune editorial board? (03-06)
How about we can the cynicism? (03-06)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Chance the Rapper press conference: "Gov. Rauner, do your job" (03-06)
The other side of a hugely popular issue (03-06)
Question of the day (03-06)
*** UPDATED x3 - Mendoza releases own video - Mendoza responds - Rauner goes to court *** Rauner threatens legal action against Mendoza on payroll, claims she's putting social service providers "at risk" (03-06)
*** UPDATED x3 - Cullerton responds - CPS rejects Rauner ideas *** Chance the Rapper calls press conference (03-06)
The big squeeze (03-06)
Poll: Rauner, sugar unpopular here (03-06)
Boss Rauner? (03-06)
Today's must-listen (03-06)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (03-06)
Reader comments closed for the weekend (03-03)
Appellate court grants stay forbidding Rauner from imposing contract terms on AFSCME (03-03)
Blasts from the past resurface (03-03)
Question of the day (03-03)
*** UPDATED x3 *** Much-hyped meeting goes badly for Chance the Rapper, Rauner (03-03)
Gallup: A quarter of Illinoisans actually feel confident in state government (03-03)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Gonna be a long two years (03-03)
Was Cat really cooperating? (03-03)
Because... Manar? (03-03)
Finger-pointing continues over accidental prisoner release (03-03)
Another temporary tax hike? (03-03)
SDems propose to tax even more services (03-03)
*** UPDATED x1 - Duckworth demands "sincere apology" *** Bost kinda walks it back (03-03)
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1,700 applications received in three days (03-02)
Foxx to let some inmates out who can't afford to post bond (03-02)
Question of the day (03-02)
Support House Bill 40 (03-02)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Team Rauner: Chance the Rapper meeting still on (03-02)
Feds raid Cat HQ (03-02)
Pawar looks back to FDR for campaign ideas (03-02)
Maybe a little too much? (03-02)
Left and right wings agree on messaging (03-02)
Bost compares rowdy town halls to "the cleansing that the Orientals used to do" (03-02)
A Tax That Gives Back (03-02)
Pritzker contributions questioned (03-02)
Senate Dems accuse Rauner of sabotage (03-02)
*** LIVE *** Senate session coverage (03-02)
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Question of the day (03-01)
Fahner leaving Civic Committee (03-01)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Southern Democrats endorse Kennedy (03-01)
Twitter to use algorithms to cut down on abusive behavior (03-01)
How much do county employees make? (03-01)
*** UPDATED x1 - Rauner admin responds *** How the state's other union contracts compare to the AFSCME situation (03-01)
*** UPDATED x2 - Radogno responds - Tillman weighs in *** Proft warns Rauner, Senate Repubs on grand bargain votes (03-01)
*** UPDATED x1 *** "I never thought it would be so hard to give away a half-a-million dollars" (03-01)
State Farm takes huge hit on auto insurance (03-01)
Mayor Emanuel touts another first place finish as President Trump continues criticism (03-01)
The hard part begins today (03-01)
*** LIVE *** Senate session coverage (03-01)
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Rep. Chapa LaVia fails to advance to final round (03-01)

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