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April 2015 Posts

Illinois vs. Indiana – Workers’ Compensation (04-30)
Tribune sides with ComEd despite studies to the contrary (04-30)
Rauner to restore "Good Friday Massacre" cuts (04-30)
Question of the day (04-30)
Illinois again at risk of losing federal education dollars (04-30)
Today's number: 2,591 (04-30)
It's just a bill... (04-30)
Caption contest! (04-30)
Lincoln's last ride (04-30)
Your daily "right to work" roundup (04-30)
Liberal "think tank" formed here (04-30)
The FY 2016 dance finally begins (04-30)
Poll: Republican, evangelical opposition to same sex marriage rights plummets (04-30)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (04-30)
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Good morning! (04-30)
Sun-Times Editorial: Exelon's Rate-Hike Proposal is a Bad Bill (04-29)
Reports of my impending demise are greatly exaggerated (04-29)
It's just a bill... (04-29)
Question of the day (04-29)
Strangest. Game. Ever. (04-29)
The McCarter agenda (04-29)
Meat Loaf is state fair bound (04-29)
Don Moss passes away (04-29)
It's only going to get worse (04-29)
Gill's independent bid could boost Rodney Davis' prospects (04-29)
Frerichs releases internal audit results (04-29)
The Dems need to start thinking ahead (04-29)
*** UPDATED x3 *** Family says former Gov. Dan Walker has passed away (04-29)
Creating Bright Financial Futures – A Credit Union Difference (04-29)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Your daily "right to work" roundup (04-29)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (04-29)
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Kirk lays it on thick (04-28)
Today's number: 125 years (04-28)
Sun-Times Editorial: Exelon's Rate-Hike Proposal is a Bad Bill (04-28)
The government union angle (04-28)
State Of Extremes (04-28)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Question of the day (04-28)
Your daily "right to work" roundup (04-28)
Susan’s Story: A “Routine” Medical Procedure Goes Horribly Wrong (04-28)
Today's quotable (04-28)
Carbondale plans tax hike, budget cuts in face of threatened state slash (04-28)
Don Moss "in the waning moments of his life" (04-28)
Easier said than done (04-28)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (04-28)
Caption contest! (04-28)
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A missed revenue opportunity (04-27)
Caption contest! (04-27)
Union-sponsored poll shows support for labor agenda (04-27)
A good way and a bad way (04-27)
The next target (04-27)
Question of the day (04-27)
Sam Zell quadruples wife's contribution (04-27)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Fundraiser/event list (Use last week's password) (04-27)
Cleaning up part of the CoD mess (04-27)
Today's number: $42,000 (04-27)
Anti Israeli boycott bill moves to the House (04-27)
Out of state biz journalists peeved at Rauner (04-27)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Your daily "right to work" roundup (04-27)
Redistricting effort to reboot this week (04-27)
Having it both ways (04-27)
Why isn't Speaker Madigan voting on bills? (04-27)
Reader comments closed for the weekend (04-24)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Next week's pressers (04-24)
Today's long story (04-24)
Rauner approval rating: 40-36 (04-24)
AP and Chicago Tribune - Study: Exelon subsidy would cost $1.6B over 5 years (04-24)
Question of the day (04-24)
Illinois Credit Unions – A Smarter Choice (04-24)
Advertisers behaving badly (04-24)
Your daily "right to work" roundup (04-24)
*** UPDATED x1 *** It's just a bill... (04-24)
Ford plant reaches 100,000 cop car milestone (04-24)
House approves marijuana tickets (04-24)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (04-24)
More cuts announced (04-24)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Ann Stepan, Gloria Alitto Majewski (04-23)
C'mon, man! (04-23)
133 Days Without A Solution And Counting (04-23)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Food for thought (04-23)
Alvarez slammed, BGA sues cops (04-23)
Question of the day (04-23)
AP and Chicago Tribune - Study: Exelon subsidy would cost $1.6B over 5 years (04-23)
Stop the satellite TV tax (04-23)
More like this, please (04-23)
*** UPDATED x1 *** It's just a bill... (Hot button edition) (04-23)
House Dems still refusing to go along with Senate's FY 15 patch (04-23)
Caption contest! (04-23)
What would elder care be like without the civil justice system? (04-23)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Rauner opens yet another front against labor (04-23)
Rebutting the "Illinois doesn't have a revenue problem" argument (04-23)
Rauner says he wants school consolidation (04-23)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Dold lands plum assignment, TCullerton wins some union nods (04-23)
Your daily "right to work" roundup (04-23)
*** UPDATED x5 - House approves - Senate approves *** This Is Illinois (04-23)
*** UPDATED x1 - Smith gets 5 months *** Today's quotable (04-23)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (04-23)
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Good morning! (04-23)
Question of the day (04-22)
Damaged goods? - And a campaign roundup (04-22)
Today's number: $1.6 billion (04-22)
ISP steak dinner incentive exposed, trashed (04-22)
Remember the Facts (04-22)
It's just a bill... (04-22)
Heart breaking (04-22)
*** UPDATED x2 *** Expanding the "fair share" attack to teachers (04-22)
Landmark group places State Historic Preservation Office on "Most Endangered Places" list (04-22)
Madigan not yet supporting Senate attempt to restore FY 15 cuts (04-22)
Keven’s Story: Employer Denied Veteran’s Work Injury (04-22)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (04-22)
Illinois Credit Unions – A Smarter Choice (04-22)
IllinoisGO claims $5.5 million in cash (04-22)
ComEd’s Future Energy Plan (04-22)
*** UPDATED x3 *** Your morning "right to work" roundup (04-22)
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Early morning must-listens (04-22)
Rauner, Madigan working on a swap (04-21)
Cute signs, but apparently no talking points (04-21)
It's just a bill... (04-21)
LaHood lines up far right endorsements (04-21)
Today's number: $20 billion (04-21)
Nuding on the hot seat (04-21)
Building bridges, sometimes literally (04-21)
Not so fast... (04-21)
Question of the day (04-21)
Rockford sides with Rauner (04-21)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (04-21)
Fitch: Back off bankruptcy talk (04-21)
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Caption contest! (04-20)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (04-20)
Prison contract work rules hit (04-20)
Question of the day (04-20)
Muttering, resignation follow new appointment (04-20)
Today's quotables: Rauner vs. Madigan (04-20)
*** UPDATED x1 - NWMC didn't advance *** Makanda: Oops! (04-20)
Rate Exelon's new TV and radio ads (04-20)
*** UPDATED x2 - Fritchey: More needs to be done *** Alvarez to divert low-level drug crimes (04-20)
$1.6 billion versus (at least) $2.2 billion (04-20)
Rauner is not a news junkie (04-20)
Rauner opens new campaign front in pursuit of grand bargain (04-20)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Supplement to today’s edition, fundraiser list and more (04-20)
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Cardinal Francis George services announced (04-18)
Reader comments closed for the weekend (04-17)
Caption contest! (04-17)
Question of the day (04-17)
Hold off a bit, please (04-17)
The mental health cost shift (04-17)
Credit Unions – “People Helping People” and their Communities (04-17)
Redefining Darin (04-17)
*** UPDATED x1 - Rauner response *** Madigan to Rauner: Disclose how you reached your budget decisions (04-17)
Today's must-read (04-17)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (04-17)
*** UPDATED x1 *** This morning's "right to work" tally (04-17)
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In a nutshell (04-16)
Pumpkin it is! (04-16)
Caption contest! (04-16)
Exelon Energy News (04-16)
Workers injured on the job deserve the right to reasonable compensation (04-16)
Question of the day (04-16)
Legal fees, luxury hotels and donor gifts disclosed by Schock (04-16)
Rauner: No CPS bailout (04-16)
Setting the Record Straight on Illinois’ Nuclear Facilities (04-16)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Emanuel again blasts governor's "right to work" proposal while Chicagoland Chamber balks at statement (04-16)
Back wages, Chicago schools and plaintiffs attorneys all awarded money (04-16)
Feds probing CPS, COD (04-16)
Good morning! (04-16)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (04-16)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Supplement to today’s edition (04-16)
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*** UPDATED x1 *** Cancer Society blasts Quitline closure (04-15)
Tier II roundup (04-15)
Exelon Is Against Subsidies... Unless They're For Exelon (04-15)
Stand down... (04-15)
Question of the day (04-15)
Calm down, please (04-15)
Today's chutzpah award (04-15)
Cuts have consequences (04-15)
Rauner, wife donate $100,000 for tornado relief (04-15)
Rauner fears CPS "is going to have to go bankrupt" (04-15)
New dates set for Schock replacement race while grand jury probe expands and lawsuit filed (04-15)
NRSC blasts Duckworth on tax day (04-15)
*** UPDATED x2 *** Rauner comes up short in Crete, Mundelein, Libertyville and Aurora Township (04-15)
Credit Unions – “People Helping People” and their Communities (04-15)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (04-15)
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The Boat Drink Caucus rides again! (04-14)
Stop the satellite TV tax (04-14)
Question of the day (04-14)
Today's must-read (04-14)
A new one on me (04-14)
Standing Up For Jobs (04-14)
Blaming the state (04-14)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (04-14)
Keven’s Story: Employer Denied Veteran’s Work Injury (04-14)
Frerichs wants to boost state tech investments (04-14)
Dogs and cats living together! (04-14)
We have a winner! (04-14)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Unions try to keep up with Rauner's local push (04-14)
Nekritz and Biss: No Rauner pension reform vote without impact study (04-14)
With friends like these... (04-14)
Hospitals warn of closures (04-14)
"America's Worst Human"? (04-14)
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*** UPDATED x1 *** AFSCME'S Lynch: Rauner has a "Darth Vader destruction fantasy" about unions (04-13)
Tiny county wants Schock to pay for special elections (04-13)
Ugh (04-13)
Today's must-read (04-13)
Caption contest! (04-13)
Question of the day (04-13)
Not all strings are neatly tied (04-13)
Meanwhile, in Hoosierville (04-13)
SIUC petition having little impact so far (04-13)
Foster out, TCullerton forms congressional exploratory committee (04-13)
Local GOP wariness over anti-union proposals (04-13)
Local governments hit in FY 15 fix (04-13)
Today's number: 4 (04-13)
Fair share fees freed up (04-10)
Reader comments closed until Monday (04-09)
Flynn stumbles out of the gate (04-09)
Question of the day (04-09)
Action vs. braggadocio (04-09)
*** UPDATED x1 *** McHenry County Board approves Rauner's "right to work" language (04-09)
What would the environment be like without the civil justice system? (04-09)
Today's word: July (04-09)
*** UPDATED x1 *** "Confused and surprised" (04-09)
Rauner expands his critique of the Supreme Court (04-09)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Local "right to work" push not showing much success... yet (04-09)
A little afternoon delight (04-08)
Schock developments (04-08)
Credit where credit is due (04-08)
More troubling remarks (04-08)
Radar Online claims Blagojevich scoop (04-08)
Day after open thread (04-08)
*** LIVE *** Municipal election night coverage (04-07)
Riddle Me This… (04-07)
Afternoon/evening precinct reports (04-07)
A Bailout Is A Bailout (04-07)
Another day, another enemy (04-07)
Jacob’s Story: Delayed Treatment Changes the Future and a Family (04-07)
Question of the day (04-07)
A gush is worth a thousand details (04-07)
Unforeseen cuts, then a partial walk-back (04-07)
Today's quotable (04-07)
College bloat (04-07)
An inevitable property tax hike for Chicago (04-07)
Today's Number: One-third the circumference of the Earth (04-07)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Supplement to today’s edition (04-07)
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Morning precinct reports (04-07)
A Bailout Is A Bailout (04-06)
Case Study: Wisconsin (04-02)
What would the environment be like without the civil justice system? (04-02)
The Credit Union Difference (04-02)
Good morning and see you later (04-02)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Kirk blasts Indiana law as "un-American" (04-01)
Gay marriage, concealed carry and "right to work"? (04-01)
Poll: Illinoisans not wild about fracking (04-01)
Only Exelon will Benefit (04-01)
Question of the day (04-01)
Finally, some coverage (04-01)
Is Durbin about to lose his leadership gig? (04-01)
Poll shows ten-point lead for Hopkins (04-01)
Shenanigans? (04-01)
Chicago area powering job growth (04-01)
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