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May 2015 Posts

Madigan addresses Rauner's workers' comp, property tax demands (05-31)
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Question of the day (05-31)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Not so end of session party update (05-31)
Radogno: All the Democrats want is a tax hike (05-31)
Madigan: House to return June 4 (05-31)
An afternoon thought (05-31)
Madigan: Some Rauner actions "clear resemblance to Blagojevich tactics," says governor is being "extreme" (05-31)
Cullerton: "Gov. Rauner has chosen to hold the budget hostage" ... "Unlikely we can get anything done" (05-31)
Cranked back up (05-31)
Chicago pension payment plan advanced (05-31)
It's more than just body cams (05-31)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Not so end of session party update (05-31)
Caption contest! (05-31)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Follow the Rauner brick road (05-31)
Thoughts from the leaders on today's big deadline (05-31)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (05-31)
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Willie Wilson to announce bid for... President? (05-30)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Let's play: "Brick Or No Brick" (05-30)
Adventures in lobbying (05-30)
Question of the day (05-30)
My two cents: Overtime, budget, TV blitz, reform (05-30)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Supplement to today's edition and some mailer updates (05-30)
Today's quotable (05-30)
*** UPDATED x2 - A bit of levity *** Temper, temper (05-30)
Report: Two alleged Hastert victims interviewed by feds (05-30)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (05-30)
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Good morning! (05-30)
Still more progress on crime-related issues (05-29)
Question of the day (05-29)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Supplement to the "Extra" (05-29)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - EXTRA: LEADERS' MEETING UPDATE (05-29)
Unsolicited advice (05-29)
*** UPDATED x4 - Not so fast *** Where there's a will there's a way (05-29)
Pot, meet kettle (05-29)
Today's quotable (05-29)
Credit Unions – Cooperative in structure, valued in service (05-29)
Sturm Und Drang (05-29)
The Speaker giveth... (05-29)
Consequences of failure (05-29)
*** UPDATED x2 *** Denny Hastert oddities and ends (05-29)
The attacks continue (05-29)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (05-29)
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Good morning! (05-29)
*** UPDATED x1 *** This just in... Denny Hastert indicted (05-28)
What Isn’t Exelon Telling You about Its Corporate Bailout Legislation? (05-28)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Question of the day (05-28)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Update on lobbying the executive branch (05-28)
Afternoon thought (05-28)
Today's illustrative tweet (05-28)
On the bright side... (05-28)
"Always bet on nothing" (05-28)
More on strike preparedness (05-28)
Workers' comp reforms go down in flames (05-28)
Ask the Insurance Industry “Where’s the money?” (05-28)
Today's quotable (05-28)
An ever-widening war (05-28)
Back to the future? (05-28)
Why Illinois Needs The Low Carbon Portfolio Standard (05-28)
Keep calm and... Oh, nevermind (05-28)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (05-28)
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Good morning! (05-28)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - EXCLUSIVE: Paul Green's Chicago election analysis (05-27)
*** UPDATED x1 - AFL-CIO calls bill "Trojan Horse" *** Rauner cranks it up another notch (05-27)
Priorities, please (05-27)
The Senate Dems fully join the fight (05-27)
Rauner asks agencies for strike plans, impacts (05-27)
Caption contest! (05-27)
Question of the day (05-27)
Illinois switches marketing gears (05-27)
December's quotable (05-27)
Pot, meet kettle (05-27)
Sign of the times? (05-27)
Exelon backs off closure threats for now (05-27)
Credit Unions – Cooperative in structure, valued in service (05-27)
Having it both ways (05-27)
No surprise, Trib is fully on board (05-27)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (05-27)
Rauner again demanding Senate side with him over Madigan (05-27)
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Good morning! (05-27)
*** UPDATED x1 - Brown responds *** Rauner to Dems: Don't be controlled by Madigan (05-26)
Alvarez says Preckwinkle pension bill is unconstitutional (05-26)
The Fergus Daly Band (05-26)
$106 million down the drain (05-26)
Metro-East track agrees to be purchased by ESL casino (05-26)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - "Good news" turns to bad news (05-26)
Simple answers to simple questions (05-26)
Question of the day (05-26)
Molly’s Story: Doctors Unnecessarily Removed Her Breast (05-26)
Agreeing and disagreeing (05-26)
Today's number: 30 (05-26)
Today's quotable (05-26)
Keeping Illinois Nuclear Plants Open: Think About What’s At Stake (05-26)
AFSCME: Rauner wants to force a strike (05-26)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Durkin, Radogno react to Madigan budget announcement (05-26)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (05-26)
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Speaker Madigan: Rauner should keep "non-budget issues" out of budget process (05-25)
Rauner blasts Madigan (05-25)
Question of the day (05-25)
Caption contest! (05-25)
The gift that keeps on giving (05-25)
Today's number: $34 million (05-25)
I got nothing good to tell you (05-25)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Supplement to today’s edition (05-25)
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*** LIVE *** Session coverage (05-25)
Happy Memorial Day! (05-25)
Reader comments closed until Memorial Day (05-22)
Gaming bill could grow (05-22)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - OT update (05-22)
Question of the day (05-22)
He gone (05-22)
Harmon: Rauner is "bullying" and "holding the entire state hostage" (05-22)
Today's quotable (05-22)
Madigan tax hike defeated (05-22)
Another welcomed change (05-22)
Business as usual is right (05-22)
Rauner to unveil actual bills today, with no "right to work" in sight (05-22)
Serving Consumers, Honoring Veterans – Credit Union Cooperative Values in Action (05-22)
Your daily "right to work" roundup (05-22)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (05-22)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Supplement to today’s edition (05-22)
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Good morning! (05-22)
We're one step closer (05-21)
Preckwinkle: Rauner wants omnibus bill before helping Cook County (05-21)
Union blasts Rauner's contract proposals (05-21)
Question of the day (05-21)
The HDem super majority myth (05-21)
Zopp won't answer SUPES questions (05-21)
Today's number: 82 (05-21)
The civil justice system gives everyone a fair chance (05-21)
Putting human faces on line item numbers (05-21)
Keeping Illinois Nuclear Plants Open: Good For Jobs, Small Business & Illinois (05-21)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Some good news... (05-21)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Dems to Rauner: You do the cutting (05-21)
Your daily "right to work" roundup (05-21)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (05-21)
Rauner: "Expect a very long 'extra' session" (05-21)
Caption contest! (05-21)
That one's gonna sting (05-21)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Supplement to today’s edition (05-21)
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Good morning! (05-21)
Your daily "right to work" roundup (05-20)
Question of the day (05-20)
SEIU blasts Rauner over contract talks (05-20)
Meh (05-20)
Today's number: $2.1 billion (05-20)
House votes to ban "conversion therapy" (05-20)
Exelon Credit Rated Higher Than "Junk Status" City of Chicago and CPS (05-20)
Rauner said he would do it, and he did it (05-20)
Dems drafting their own budget (05-20)
Meanwhile, in Opposite Land... (05-20)
The Democrats fire back (05-20)
Keeping Illinois Nuclear Plants Open: Good For Our Communities & Illinois (05-20)
Rauner loses fair share argument in federal court, but three employees allowed to proceed (05-20)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (05-20)
Good morning! (05-20)
Serving Consumers, Honoring Veterans – Credit Union Cooperative Values in Action (05-20)
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Durkin, Radogno escalate war of words (05-19)
Madigan fires back (05-19)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Legendary broadcast journalist to retire (05-19)
Rise of the Democratic Raunerites? (05-19)
Illinois services set for Gov. Dan Walker (05-19)
Online organizing ain't all it's cracked up to be (05-19)
Question of the day (05-19)
Sen. McConnaughay first to admit refusing Rauner's contribution (05-19)
Amy’s Story: Erroneous Blood Test Alters Their Lives (05-19)
Your daily "right to work" roundup (05-19)
Medicaid – Know the Facts Part 3 (05-19)
Rauner Derangement Syndrome run amok (05-19)
Stop the satellite TV tax (05-19)
Some things old are new again (05-19)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (05-19)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Supplement to today’s edition (05-19)
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Posted under protest (05-18)
Moody's attempts to calm nerves about its Chicago, state ratings (05-18)
Today's must-listen audio (05-18)
Question of the day (05-18)
Mansion stuff (05-18)
Unsolicited advice (05-18)
A lesson that must be learned (05-18)
Fighting fire with fire? (05-18)
Counting the tax money (05-18)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (05-18)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Supplement to my Crain's column (05-18)
Leaders, voters not all that crazy about pension solutions (05-18)
Behind the "right to work" vote (05-18)
Looking on the bright side (05-18)
Tom Cullerton says he's in (05-18)
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Good morning! (05-18)
Reader comments closed for the weekend (05-15)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Fundraiser/event list (05-15)
Gov. Transparency (05-15)
Question of the day (05-15)
Madigan schedules vote on millionaire tax hike (05-15)
20 years of diversions cost pension fund $3.2 billion (05-15)
Thank you! (05-15)
*** UPDATED x2 *** Zopp says she's running for Senate (05-15)
Credit Unions – Providing “Peace of Mind” to Members (05-15)
Today's number: $350 million (05-15)
Today's quotable (05-15)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Your daily "right to work" roundup (05-15)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Supplement to today’s edition (05-15)
Rauner drops $400K on GOP legislators this week (05-15)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (05-15)
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Good morning! (05-15)
Madigan schedules votes on workers' comp, tort law (05-14)
Seersucker day at the Statehouse (05-14)
The Key to Lowering Workers’ Compensation Costs is Insurance Transparency and Oversight (05-14)
Fun with numbers (05-14)
Question of the day (05-14)
Springfield News: Broad Coalition of 60+ Organizations Voice Support for Illinois Low Carbon Portfolio Standard (05-14)
Rauner talks to the media about pensions, unions, "Turnaround" and secrecy (05-14)
CPS and City of Chicago Downgraded to “Junk Bond Status” Yet Exelon Bailout Would Cost Them More than $20 million (05-14)
Not so fast, indeed (05-14)
Still in pension reform denial (05-14)
Rate Sen. Mark Kirk's new TV ad (05-14)
Setting the stage for today's "right to work" vote (05-14)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (05-14)
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Another one bites the dust (05-13)
Janette Weatherall (05-13)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Unions demand Emanuel drop pension court battle (05-13)
Question of the day (05-13)
Your daily "right to work" update (05-13)
Urgent puppy help needed! (05-13)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - "Right to work" update (05-13)
Kirk already running cable ads (05-13)
Another day, another dodge (05-13)
Hype versus reality (05-13)
AP and Chicago Tribune - Study: Exelon subsidy would cost $1.6B over 5 years (05-13)
Putting a "human face" on tort reform (05-13)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (05-13)
Stop the satellite TV tax (05-13)
Lynch responds to Trib bashing (05-13)
Cullerton floats revised pension reform proposal (05-13)
Did the City wait too long? (05-13)
Credit Unions – Providing “Peace of Mind” to Members (05-13)
Second bananas replacing Meat Loaf at State Fair (05-13)
Moody's to Chicago: You're junk! (05-13)
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Maybe not (05-12)
Keeping Illinois Nuclear Plants Open: My Family’s Future Is On The Line (05-12)
It's just a bill... (05-12)
This Is Illinois (05-12)
Moving close to Thompson Center sale? (05-12)
It's "ITLA Day" in the Illinois House (05-12)
Illinois pride, tattoo style (05-12)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Your daily "right to work" roundup (05-12)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (05-12)
Amy’s Story: Erroneous Blood Test Alters Their Lives (05-12)
Question of the day (05-12)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Working groups update (05-12)
Careful what you wish for ("Bankruptcy Edition") (05-12)
Medicaid – Know the Facts Part 2 (05-12)
Pantagraph: Open it up (05-12)
Today's number: 7 years (05-12)
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Good morning! (05-12)
Rickert: Fire all state workers (05-11)
Question of the day (05-11)
Rauner upbeat despite attacks (05-11)
Your daily "right to work" roundup (05-11)
Republican candidate admits to voting for Obama (05-11)
Cullerton's plan mentioned in ruling's footnotes (05-11)
Caption contest! (05-11)
Poll: State way off track, Rauner has small net positives, but GA has huge negs (05-11)
That 70s show (05-11)
For guidance before he was against guidance (05-11)
Inside the secretive "working groups" (05-11)
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Good morning! (05-11)
Reader comments closed for the weekend (05-08)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Fundraiser list (05-08)
The Tribune screams again (05-08)
*** UPDATED x3 - Moody's responds - Madiar responds - Emanuel responds *** Rauner responds to Supreme Court pension ruling (05-08)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Working group update (05-08)
Good afternoon! (05-08)
*** UPDATED x1 *** A way forward? (05-08)
Question of the day (05-08)
Editorial Boards Agree: Exelon's Bailout is a Bad Bill (05-08)
Supreme Court pension decision react (05-08)
This just in... Illinois Supreme Court strikes down state pension law (05-08)
Your daily "right to work" roundup (05-08)
*** UPDATED x1 *** This just in... (05-08)
*** UPDATED x1 - Ounce responds *** The business we've chosen (05-08)
*** UPDATED x3 - Rauner responds *** Madigan Schedules Vote on Rauner’s “Right to Work” Proposal (05-07)
Caption contest! (05-07)
It's just a bill... (05-07)
Question of the day (05-07)
Advertisers behaving badly (05-07)
Springfield News: Hundreds Gather in State Capitol to Support Low Carbon Energy Bill (05-07)
It's about getting from Point A to Point B (05-07)
What would Women’s Health be like without the civil justice system? (05-07)
Let's hope this works (05-07)
Today's number: 6.8 percent (05-07)
Medicaid - Know The Facts (05-07)
Rauner, Durkin urge calm (05-07)
Your daily "right to work" roundup (05-07)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Civic Federation: Rauner's budget proposal is unrealistic, inadvisable, not achievable, not reasonable, not prudent (05-07)
Giving back to its members – A Credit Union Difference (05-07)
*** UPDATED x2 *** SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Supplement to today’s edition (05-07)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (05-07)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (05-07)
Good morning! (05-07)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Rauner wants to give voters option to freeze property taxes forever (05-06)
Question of the day (05-06)
Sun-Times Editorial: Exelon's Rate-Hike Proposal is a Bad Bill (05-06)
Today's quotable (05-06)
*** UPDATED x2 *** Today's numbers: 25-44 (05-06)
*** UPDATED x2 *** Has the big fight finally begun? (05-06)
Fisking Exelon's latest ploy (05-06)
More corrections needed (05-06)
House Dems ignored real reform needs (05-06)
Gov. Rauner to speak to Chicago city council (05-06)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Your daily "right to work" roundup (05-06)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (05-06)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (05-06)
Question of the day (05-05)
Nuclear Energy: The Most Abundant Source of Clean Air Energy Jobs in Illinois (05-05)
Rauner: Turnaround Agenda before Chicago casino (05-05)
Susan’s Story: A “Routine” Medical Procedure Goes Horribly Wrong (05-05)
RTA will "gladly" trade operating subsidy for bigtime capital money (05-05)
Rauner asks foreign countries for biz input (05-05)
Medicaid - Know The Facts (05-05)
Giving back to its members – A Credit Union Difference (05-05)
*** LIVE *** Session coverage (05-05)
Revenue options detailed (05-05)
The hazards of outsourcing (05-05)
Talking past each other (05-05)
Your daily "right to work" update (05-05)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Supplement to today’s edition (05-05)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (05-05)
Good morning! (05-05)
Report: LaHood raised $500K in five weeks (05-04)
State Fair has new director (05-04)
Question of the day (05-04)
Crime and punishment (05-04)
It's just a bill... (05-04)
Katie Spindell, Katie Spindell, Katie Spindell, Katie Spindell! (05-04)
Your daily "right to work" roundup (05-04)
Here we go again... (05-04)
You gotta get to "need" before you can get to "want" (05-04)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Crash and burn? (05-04)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Supplement to today’s edition (05-04)
Good morning! (05-04)
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Loaf cancels on us (05-01)
Reader comments closed for the weekend (05-01)
*** UPDATED x1 - Durkin responds *** Madigan calls "Committee of the Whole" (05-01)
Friday afternoon document dump (05-01)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Event and fundraising list (05-01)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Question of the day (05-01)
What a coinkydink (05-01)
Lincoln Funeral Reenactment events calendar (05-01)
Mismanagement, lack of staff leads to IDOC overtime problems (05-01)
Your daily "right to work" roundup (05-01)
Dold, Bost on "most vulnerable" list (05-01)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Obama library coming to Chicago - Rauner to sign bill (05-01)
Governor backs out of "debate" (05-01)
Creating Bright Financial Futures – A Credit Union Difference (05-01)
Today's quotable (05-01)
Rauner, legislators create "Star Chambers" (05-01)
"Democratic" group raises millions more (05-01)

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