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May 2007 Posts

This just in... Part 2 *** Updated x7 *** (05-31)
This just in... Holbrook holds up budget, and updates *** Updated x1 *** (05-31)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Senate Democratic plans; House Dem plans; Cable; Gnome (Use all caps in password) (05-31)
Daley to governor: "Set your priorities" (05-31)
Question of the day (05-31)
The problem with Jones *** Updated x1 with a warning *** (05-31)
Stumbling towards overtime (05-31)
Morning Shorts (05-31)
This just in... *** Updated x5 *** (05-30)
Priest threatens to "snuff out" legislators (05-30)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Audio of Paul's interview with the guv; Madigan and Meeks audio; The "plan"; Freeze; Taxes; Trouble; Roundup (Use all caps in password) (05-30)
Illinois children can't wait another year for reform (05-30)
Question of the day (05-30)
Complications are many (05-30)
If this is the way they're gonna play it, this thing will never pass (05-30)
More reform and renewal (05-30)
Morning Shorts (05-30)
Oh, bloody hell *** Updated x2 *** (05-29)
Perpetually blundering (05-29)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - HB 750 moving?; Complete loophole list; IRMA response; HDem caucus doc on gaming; Full Blagojevich audio; Clips of HDem members after caucus; Roundup; Sieben; "Top 20 Reasons You Might have a Bad Bill" (Use all caps in password) (05-29)
Question of the day (05-29)
Yet another poll shows backing for tax hike (05-29)
Long summer ahead? (05-29)
Obamarama - Putting the GOPs in play here (05-29)
Morning Shorts (05-29)
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Holiday shorts (05-28)
Saturday budget negotiations roundup (05-26)
READER COMMENTS CLOSED UNTIL MONDAY AFTERNOON (05-25)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Leaders meeting reports *** Updated x12 *** (Now with full audio of both media availabilities) (05-25)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Cross presser; SDems; Corporate loophole survey; Generation tax roundup (Use all caps in password) *** Updated x2 *** (05-25)
Question of the day (05-25)
More audits, more bad news (05-25)
Leadership, or lack thereof (05-25)
Morning Shorts (05-25)
Franks: Video game defense nears $1 million cost (05-24)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY (Part 2) - Madigan's House Democratic caucus tax survey results (05-24)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - House vs. Senate softball game roundup and pics (Use all caps in password) (05-24)
Question of the day (05-24)
MJM presser roundup (05-24)
"Reclusive, dishonest, Ryanesque, tie-loving no-show" governor battered on all sides today (05-24)
Morning Shorts (05-24)
Madigan: Not enough support for income tax hike in caucus ***Updated x4*** (05-23)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Numbers; Overtime; Hybrid tax; Labor; Hendon; Schools; Lobsters; Massive legislative roundup (Use all caps in password) (05-23)
Question of the day (05-23)
Not enough (05-23)
Knock it off, please (05-23)
More trouble for the guv (05-23)
Morning Shorts (05-23)
Guv's campaign fund subpoenaed (05-23)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY (Part 2) - Ronen; State Board of Elections (use all caps in password) (05-22)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Jones-Madigan; Poll data; Guv; Civil unions; Electricity; Halvorson; Kotowski; Indiana; Amtrak; Hultgren; J. Jones (Use all caps in password) (05-22)
Question of the day (05-22)
Gas prices hit home (05-22)
Stroger blames media, Daley dodges press, reporters fawn over Jackson (05-22)
Morning Shorts (05-22)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Vigil; Jones; Poll; Chapa LaVia; Froehlich-Kotowsi; Tragedy; Lobsters; Gas prices; Virus; Lisa Madigan; ComEd; Minimum wage; Rockford; Wine; Argentina (Use all caps in password) (05-21)
Dispelling the "Deep Pockets" Myth (05-21)
Question of the day (05-21)
Daley, mayors gear up to back income tax hike (05-21)
Paul's first newspaper column (05-21)
Details hit on Statehouse renovation (05-21)
Morning Shorts (05-21)
READER COMMENTS CLOSED FOR THE WEEKEND (05-19)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY (Part 2) - TRAC's plans for Sunday night vigil by Madigan's house *** Updated x1 *** (05-18)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Gaming; Rates; Fees; Drugs; HIV; Ceasefire; Veggie oil; Rutherford; Seatbelts (Use all caps in password) (05-18)
Friday baseball blogging (05-18)
Question of the day (05-18)
Little Bubba may spark a new law (05-18)
Trial lawyers to have new ammo: "Grief and sorrow" (05-18)
"No growth" off the table? Plus: Meeks on the budget, gaming and the guv's hair; House survey (05-18)
Morning Shorts (05-18)
Ridiculous (05-17)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY (Part 3) - "No-Growth" letter and important update to the "extra's" faxed version (05-17)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY, PART 2 - House Democratic Expenditure Priority Checklist; Chicagoans' priorities; Cars (Use all caps in password) (05-17)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Pay raises; Judges; Ameren; Gas taxes; Paul Powell; Verschoore; UFC; "Seersucker Caucus" (Use all caps in password) (05-17)
Support Loved Ones Whose Families Have Been Wrongfully Killed - Support HB 1798 (05-17)
Question of the day (05-17)
Chicago casino? Not yet (05-17)
We're most average! (05-17)
A horse is a horse (05-17)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - EMAIL HAS BEEN DELAYED TODAY BECAUSE OF TECH PROBLEMS - ACCESS TODAY'S FAX HERE (Use all caps in password) (05-17)
Morning Shorts (05-17)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Pharmacists; Black; Ultimate fighting (Use all caps in password) (05-16)
Question of the day (05-16)
Not a lot of forward movement (05-16)
End games (05-16)
Moving the primary (05-16)
Morning Shorts (05-16)
Caption Contest! *** Updated x1 *** (05-15)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Watson to meet with Daley; Pharmacists; Chapa LaVia; Black-Frerichs; Short session; Ultimate fighting; Jackson; Transit $; Lobsters; Hamos (use all caps in password) *** Updated x1 *** (05-15)
Question of the day (05-15)
A new era in Chicago (05-15)
When a flip-flopper is a statesman; plus more tax news (05-15)
Morning Shorts (05-15)
Durbin has his first GOP opponent *** Updated x1 *** (05-14)
A little afternoon humor (05-14)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - GRT; Whitley; Forby; Punch; Guns (Use all caps in password) *** Updated x1 *** (05-14)
Question of the day (05-14)
Site news (05-14)
Edgar talks GRT, plus the end-game, Obama and a roundup (05-14)
Symbolism and Senate President Jones (05-14)
Morning Shorts (05-14)
Mother's Day thoughts (05-12)
READER COMMENTS CLOSED FOR THE WEEKEND (05-11)
Question of the day (05-11)
Medical marijuana bill comes up way short *** Updated x1 *** (05-11)
Ameren reports 76 percent quarterly profit increase (05-11)
There's reality and then there's reality... Plus, what's next? *** Updated x1 *** (05-11)
Morning Shorts (05-11)
VRDOLYAK INDICTED *** Updated x9 *** (05-10)
Will Madigan make the Century Club? *** Updated x24 *** (05-10)
Question of the day (05-10)
Surprising vote on gun bill (05-10)
Morning Shorts (05-10)
Hunsdorfer fundraiser reminder (05-09)
FRESH GRT THREAD (05-09)
Question of the day (05-09)
Committee of the Whole open thread and GRT updates (05-09)
Morning Shorts (05-09)
(05-08)
Uh, Jennifer, I'm 45 and too busy to be bored (05-08)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Vegas $$$; COWL; Noland; Pensions; Syverson-Jefferson; Kotowski; Wine; Jackson; RTA (Use all caps in password) (05-08)
Question of the day (05-08)
"Intense" might be the right word here (05-08)
A matter of trust (05-08)
What happens in Vegas does not necessarily stay there (05-08)
Morning Shorts (05-08)
Absenteeism, Daley win, Swing and a big miss, The center collapses (05-07)
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SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Full ruling in DeFraties case; Civic Federation; Sacia-Mulcahey; Syverson; Operating Engineers; Greens; Daniels; Bradley; Rates; Harmon; Halvorson; 7%; Guns (Use all caps in password) (05-07)
Question of the Day (05-07)
GRT benefits some, but the drumbeat increases for tax swap alternative (05-07)
On corruption, and going too far (05-07)
Morning Shorts (05-07)
THIS JUST IN: ALJ recommends two-week suspension for DeFraties (05-04)
READER COMMENTS CLOSED FOR THE WEEKEND (05-04)
Weekend reading (05-04)
Question of the day (05-04)
A new revelation about Jones' family (05-04)
Docs, Topinka, Sun-Times have problems with GRT (05-04)
Morning Shorts (05-04)
FARMBOT! (05-03)
Bonus question (05-03)
Obamarama - Trib breaks little new ground (05-03)
Question of the day (05-03)
GRT roundup *** Updated x1 *** (05-03)
Jones faces new questions about family earnings (05-03)
Morning Shorts (05-03)
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Rally report (05-02)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Kolbeck; Lang; Stephens; Guns; Illiana; Syverson; Hassert; Rally (Use all caps in password) (05-02)
Question of the day (05-02)
It's not as clear-cut as you might believe *** Updated x1 *** (05-02)
Like sands in the hourglass, these are the days of our lives... (05-02)
Morning Shorts (05-02)
Despicable (05-01)
Props for my nephew (05-01)
Long nightmare almost over (05-01)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Fitzgerald; Bradley-Forby; Jones; DCFS; Smoking bans; Cellphones; Oldest (Use all caps in password) (05-01)
Question of the day (05-01)
Rate the ad (05-01)
Salvi won't run against Bean, "Little Lip" targeted by protesters (05-01)
Enough with the blatant promos, please (05-01)
Morning Shorts (05-01)

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