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May 2016 Posts

*** UPDATED x3 - Kerthunk! *** Where we stand now (05-31)
Watch the live coverage post (05-31)
Rauner lays out his case (05-31)
*** LIVE *** Candidate filing deadline (05-31)
Hump day will also be session day (05-31)
Question of the day (05-31)
Rezko still claims he was wrongfully convicted (05-31)
Ignoring a huge public health crisis (05-31)
ComEd/Exelon: $1 Billion Guaranteed Profits On $2.4 Billion In Programs (05-31)
The great salesman (05-31)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Today's quotable (05-31)
Museum could re-open in July (05-31)
Rahm kinda walks it back (05-31)
This just in... Madigan on Rauner budget stopgap: "This is not something that's going to happen today" (05-31)
Caption contest! (05-31)
Closing Illinois’ Nuclear Facilities Will Devastate Our Economy and Environment (05-31)
Plug pulled on Exelon bill (05-31)
Medical marijuana bill clears the House (05-31)
Dot points on the new GOP school plan (05-31)
First time for everything: Rauner veto overridden in House (05-31)
Rauner does about-face, proposes stopgap budget (05-31)
*** LIVE *** Session Coverage (05-31)
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Rauner overridden on pension bill (05-30)
Statehouse flooded with education funding bills (05-30)
*** UPDATED x2 - Rep. Bradley responds *** Murphy: Madigan has "personal vendetta against the Governor that holds all of Illinois hostage" (05-30)
AFSCME: "It is time for these seven House Republicans to move beyond rhetoric and take action" (05-30)
Lesser-known impasse problems (05-30)
New York vs. Chicago on guns (05-30)
Question of the day (05-30)
Lobbyist at center of controversy blames opponents (05-30)
Nobody's giving in (05-30)
Unclear on the concept (05-30)
A look ahead (05-30)
*** UPDATED x2 *** War of words escalates between Rauner, Emanuel (05-30)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - "End of May" party update (05-30)
"Working together will never happen" (05-30)
Illinois' connection to Memorial Day (05-30)
*** LIVE *** Session Coverage (05-30)
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*** UPDATED x1 *** Madigan to tell members his side of working group talks (05-29)
Question of the day (05-29)
Madigan: Prepare for continuous session (05-29)
Spiraling out of control (05-29)
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Madigan's actions show no fear of Rauner (05-29)
HRO launches new digital ads (05-29)
The Illinois Atlas of Austerity (05-29)
*** LIVE *** Session Coverage (05-29)
Happy Sunday! (05-29)
Reader comments closed until Sunday afternoon (05-27)
*** UPDATED x1 - AFSCME responds *** Rauner: No (05-27)
Deal emerges on medical marijuana (05-27)
Stop ComEd/Exelon's $7 BILLION Rate Hike! (05-27)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Rep. Phelps counters HGOP robocalls (05-27)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Oops! (05-27)
"The safety net continues to crumble around us" (05-27)
"Picking the pockets of poor people" and stiffing the wrongfully convicted (05-27)
Radogno rips into the Democratic leaders (05-27)
Cullerton says he offered "practical way forward" (05-27)
Republican legislators want Rauner, AFSCME to restart talks (05-27)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Two non-scandals and a potentially serious one (05-27)
Rauner budget director to brief reporters at noon (05-27)
*** UPDATED x3 - Emanuel responds "Rauner Tax" - Rauner issues veto today *** Rauner expected to veto police and fire pension bill on Memorial Day (05-27)
"I have zero confidence that Springfield will get its act together" (05-27)
*** UPDATED x2 - Rauner audio *** Rauner to comment on collapse of negotiations (05-27)
Unclear on the history (05-27)
*** UPDATED x2 - Madigan: "No hostage-taking" - Talks collapse as Dems pull the plug *** Madigan likely to speak after leaders meeting (05-27)
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HGOPs launch robocalls targeting 7 House Dems (05-26)
Fantasy sports bill stalls in committee (05-26)
Exelon, How Dumb Do You Think We Are? (05-26)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Important update on fantasy sports bill (05-26)
Question of the day (05-26)
DCCC targeting Dold about Trump (05-26)
Illinios Mayors Call On "Best" Coalition To Stop Fighting Illinois Communities (05-26)
This just in... House to take a revote on approp bill (05-26)
Veto threat "not in question" (05-26)
The future of the "non-budget" talks (05-26)
Did the HDems walk into their own trap? (05-26)
Rivers Casino Needs to Drop its Unsavory Political Tactics Against Fantasy Sports (05-26)
Education advocates to descend on Springfield (05-26)
Fantasy Sports Is Internet Gaming (05-26)
Today's quotable: "In the meantime, people are dying" (05-26)
A ploy to derail the "non-budget" talks? (05-26)
Illinois Credit Unions: Standing with you in times of need (05-26)
Budget roundup (05-26)
Session open thread (05-26)
*** LIVE *** Session Coverage (05-26)
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Rauner to veto HDem approp bill (05-25)
Munger: HDem budget will push unpaid bills past $15 billion, force delays in legislator paychecks (05-25)
Question of the day (05-25)
*** UPDATED x3 - GOMB says proposal would require income tax rate of 5.5% to balance *** A very odd budget plan (05-25)
*** UPDATED x2 *** Madigan: No (05-25)
Social service groups, including Mrs. Rauner's, file motion for "emergency relief" (05-25)
Facing the abyss (05-25)
Caption contest! (05-25)
*** UPDATED x1 *** SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Rauner administration denounces budget proposal (05-25)
Today's number: $7.1 billion (05-25)
Leaders to meet again today, but there may be bigger news (05-25)
*** UPDATED x3 - AFSCME responds - Rauner responds - Bill defeated *** AFSCME bill override vote could come today (05-25)
This job is more than the Turnaround Agenda and a budget (05-25)
Kirk says Clinton won't hurt Duckworth bid (05-25)
Simple answers to simple questions (05-25)
*** LIVE *** Session Coverage (05-25)
The other potential candidates (05-25)
Jewish bride denied Galena wedding ceremony (05-25)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Supplement to today’s edition: Budget analysis (05-25)
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Good morning! (05-25)
AG Madigan opposes Exelon, ComEd "bailout" (05-24)
Chamber turns thumbs down on AFL-CIO demand (05-24)
Question of the day (05-24)
Ammons feels the Bern (05-24)
Carrigan: Agreed bill process or nothing (05-24)
Rivers Casino Needs to Drop its Unsavory Political Tactics Against Fantasy Sports (05-24)
Better late than never, I suppose (05-24)
*** LIVE *** Session Coverage (05-24)
Good investments, but not for the city (05-24)
Fantasy Sports Is Internet Gaming (05-24)
Baricevic hit over fundraising (05-24)
Simple answers to simple questions (05-24)
Talking past each other (05-24)
The more things change... (05-24)
*** UPDATED x1 - GOPs participated as well *** HDems move to shield social service contracts from immediate cancellation (05-24)
Brown: Democrats need a plan (05-24)
Durbin begs backers: "Cool it" (05-24)
Remap reformers declare victory (05-24)
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Where the social service money goes may surprise you (05-23)
It's just a bill (05-23)
Audit: IL Lottery violated State Finance Act (05-23)
Question of the day (05-23)
Butler implies that both Rauner and AFSCME not being "truthful" (05-23)
Budget impasse apparently taking toll on higher ed enrollment (05-23)
Today's number: 50 percent (05-23)
Fantasy Sports: Game of Skill (05-23)
*** LIVE *** Session Coverage (05-23)
Poll finds huge support for gun dealer licensing (05-23)
It's all one thing (05-23)
Bourne signs on to Manar plan (05-23)
Supremes to Blagojevich: Nope (05-23)
A picture is worth a thousand words (05-23)
Today's quotable (05-23)
HDems looking at another school funding avenue (05-23)
Two speeches, two messages (05-23)
Fantasy Sports Is Internet Gaming (05-23)
More crazy talk in Springfield (05-23)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Supplement to today's edition (05-23)
Rauner: "No way Hillary Clinton is getting elected" (05-23)
Standoff over stopgap (05-23)
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*** UPDATED x1 *** State GOP delegates soundly reject gay marriage platform change (05-21)
Reader comments closed for the weekend (05-20)
Rauner won't touch gay marriage debate (05-20)
Chicago cops conduct major gang raid (05-20)
Question of the day (05-20)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Fundraiser list and workers' comp update (05-20)
Exelon, How Dumb Do You Think We Are? (05-20)
Rauner "not a fan" of taxing retirement income (05-20)
The Credit Union Difference (05-20)
Finding a workable messaging frame (05-20)
*** UPDATED x1 ***Legislators say Rauner agrees to repurpose Kewanee facility (05-20)
Good news, bad news (05-20)
Candidate blasted over "flip-flop" on Manar bill (05-20)
*** UPDATED x1 - Shimkus rejects compromise *** Gay marriage compromise plank emerges (05-20)
The mayor's playbook (05-20)
We need some growth (05-20)
Columnist announces retirement, candidacy (05-20)
Rauner: Meh (05-20)
Today's quotable (05-20)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Illinois, meet your Trump delegation (05-20)
Chicago's pension liability jumps $11.5 billion (05-20)
Feds looking at Mautino (05-20)
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Question of the day (05-19)
Duckworth case gets trial date (05-19)
Daily fantasy sports is not gambling, it is my passion and a hobby (05-19)
Unemployment rate ticks up, but so do jobs (05-19)
Exelon, How Dumb Do You Think We Are? (05-19)
"No evidence" of harrassment, forced political work by Rutherford (05-19)
Controversy over state GOP's marriage plank (05-19)
*** UPDATED x1 - Comments now open *** Poll: Most Americans are living on the edge (05-19)
Motion, not movement (05-19)
Smoke 'em if you got 'em! (05-19)
Rep. Smiddy mocked in online ads (05-19)
Governor, you're not helping (05-19)
Today's number: 5,000+ jobs (05-19)
Fantasy Sports Is Internet Gaming (05-19)
*** UPDATED x1 - Turns out, we do know *** $600 million in bills we don't know about (05-19)
Hostages plead for mercy (05-19)
*** LIVE *** Session Coverage (05-19)
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Rate the new AARP ad (05-18)
Rauner, Chamber respond to today's rally (05-18)
It's certainly a possibility: Lang says we may never get a budget under Rauner (05-18)
Question of the day (05-18)
Madigan: No! (05-18)
Stand with our Veterans (05-18)
The bad news just keeps on coming (05-18)
It's just a bill (05-18)
Report: ILGOP to remove "one man, one woman" marriage plank (05-18)
Why are the lines so long? (05-18)
A little sunshine could help a lot (05-18)
Environmentalists Urge Illinois to Pass Comprehensive Energy Legislation (05-18)
Another union agrees to contract with state (05-18)
Is your checking account free? (05-18)
Fun and games (05-18)
Leaders meeting roundup (05-18)
"Plan for the worst" (05-18)
Thousands expected at today's labor rally (05-18)
*** LIVE *** Session Coverage (05-18)
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Today's number: $2,000 (05-17)
Finally, some good news (05-17)
"All but summoning the bond vigilantes" (05-17)
EIU will have trouble making July, August payroll (05-17)
Question of the day (05-17)
White announces big changes in driver's licenses and ID cards (05-17)
Kirk sees himself as a "steady conservative" adviser to President Trump (05-17)
The Next Generation Energy Plan: Jobs, Clean Energy and a Stronger Economy for Illinois (05-17)
Fantasy Sports Is Internet Gaming (05-17)
Budgeting, negotiating and hunkering down (05-17)
*** UPDATED x4 - Nyet - But maybe yes? *** Madigan: Nyet (05-17)
Never a dull moment (05-17)
*** LIVE *** Session Coverage (05-17)
It's not me! It's not Rauner! It's... Madigan! (05-17)
Policy Institute "ralliers" to lobby Republicans on AFSCME bill override (05-17)
Madigan wants $227 million more for MAP grants (05-17)
Rauner upside down in some key districts (05-17)
Rauner loves him some Lucas Museum (05-17)
Leaders meeting preview (05-17)
Quote of the year (05-17)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Madigan: No (05-17)
Good morning! (05-17)
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*** UPDATED x1 *** Rauner vetoes AFSCME bill (05-16)
Today's number: $350 million (05-16)
Cloonen forcefully apologizes (05-16)
This just in... Leaders meeting set (05-16)
Board of Elections wants more info from Mautino (05-16)
Question of the day (05-16)
*** UPDATED x1 *** "I want it all" (05-16)
Daily fantasy sports is not gambling, it is my passion and a hobby (05-16)
Pop tax, gaming expansion also on the table (05-16)
More like this, please (05-16)
Time to face some hard realities (05-16)
Fantasy Sports Is Internet Gaming (05-16)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Today is deadline day on AFSCME bill (05-16)
Rate the new Duckworth TV ad (05-16)
Jack Franks won't run for reelection (05-16)
Another hostage goes down (05-16)
Madigan: No (05-16)
Stop the carnage and get to a real plan (05-16)
Passing a K-12 funding bill is harder than it looks (05-16)
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Reader comments closed for the weekend (05-13)
Union fliers pulled, "censored" fliers appear (05-13)
Who ya gonna believe? Exelon or your lyin' eyes (05-13)
Question of the day (05-13)
And away we go... (05-13)
Illinois Credit Unions: Standing with you in times of need (05-13)
At least 20 percent cuts coming to CPS (05-13)
Prayer breakfast back on, without notifying a certain someone (05-13)
The great revisionists (05-13)
A very good question (05-13)
Is Scott Lee Cohen coming back? (05-13)
Kirk triples down on Menendez conspiracy theory (05-13)
All show for no go (05-13)
Rep. Franks could be slated for county board chairman race (05-13)
"Investigation" catches members playing video games on the floor (05-13)
Budgeteer deets leak (05-13)
Illinois Credit Unions: Standing with you in times of need (05-12)
"It’s outrageous that House Democrats are willing to put prison workers and public safety at risk just to avoid crossing Mike Madigan" (05-12)
Question of the day (05-12)
Who ya gonna believe? Exelon or your lyin' eyes (05-12)
*** UPDATED x1 - HDems: "It's intentional" ***GOMB finds huge drafting errors in social services stopgap bill (05-12)
My final offer is this: Nothing (05-12)
Duckworth case could go to trial in August (05-12)
We're number one! (05-12)
Today's quotable (05-12)
The Next Generation Energy Plan: Jobs, Clean Energy and a Stronger Economy for Illinois (05-12)
More like this, please (05-12)
*** UPDATED x1 - Response *** Challenge to Independent Maps filed in court (05-12)
Emanuel lashes back at Chicago bashers (05-12)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Budgeteers kick it upstairs (05-12)
Grant Ward (05-12)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Polling memo; Madigan fliers (05-12)
A two-page drafting error? (05-12)
Rauner's unpopular, but so are incumbent legislators (05-12)
*** LIVE *** Session Coverage (05-12)
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Man arrested for threatening Gov. Rauner's life (05-11)
It's just a bill (05-11)
Legislator pleads case for nuke plant (05-11)
Question of the day (05-11)
$700 million human services "bridge" bill surfaces, but there's a catch (05-11)
Hastings bill rebuffed (05-11)
"We're not taking any Trump questions" (05-11)
The Next Generation Energy Plan: Jobs, Clean Energy and a Stronger Economy for Illinois (05-11)
Unclear on the concept (05-11)
Ready for some more bad news? (05-11)
Welcome to the club! (05-11)
More on CPD's "strategic subject list" (05-11)
Here's something you don't see every day (05-11)
Coal country legislators want help for industry (05-11)
No easy way out (05-11)
Senate approves Manar's school funding revamp bill (05-11)
The check is not in the mail (05-11)
Budgeteers talking taxes (05-11)
*** LIVE *** Session Coverage (05-11)
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Quick hits (05-10)
Question of the day (05-10)
"My mom loves me very much" (05-10)
Identifying the problem is a first step (05-10)
Keep your dogs at home (05-10)
*** LIVE *** Session Coverage (05-10)
Rauner still pushing term limits (05-10)
Today's quotable (05-10)
*** UPDATED x1 - Rauner admin says members "waiting" on Madigan *** Madigan again demands Rauner "set aside his personal agenda" (05-10)
Today's number: $1.7 billion (05-10)
Marilyn Louise Hoy (05-10)
Madigan warns Dems on Trump (05-10)
Keep Fantasy Sports in Illinois (05-10)
Green shoots or not? (05-10)
Optimism and pessimism both abound (05-10)
Rauner to ignore advisory vote on youth center closure (05-10)
Rate the new VoteVets TV ad (05-10)
Rauner again blasts Dems for holding schools "hostage" (05-10)
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Rauner raw audio (05-09)
"I am so done with hailing while black" (05-09)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Event list (05-09)
Cullerton: Rauner "would force schools across Illinois to slash services and staff" (05-09)
Today's quotable (05-09)
Rauner again demands "clean" education bill (05-09)
Question of the day (05-09)
This Is Illinois (05-09)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Cook County's insane property tax system (05-09)
Campaign fodder (05-09)
It's time for some answers (05-09)
A very good idea, but it's not a panacea (05-09)
Let's be careful out there (05-09)
Buried numbers (05-09)
Rauner says he's going to Poland (05-09)
*** UPDATED x1 - Rauner reacts *** Rauner foiled by ISBE on CPS (05-09)
"I think Trump is good news" (05-09)
Define "savvy" (05-09)
Unclear on the concept (05-09)
Get out of the way (05-09)
Reader comments closed for the weekend (05-06)
Exelon makes another closure threat (05-06)
Illinois Credit Unions – A Smarter Choice (05-06)
Your weekly Oscar the Puppy picture (05-06)
Exelon Tells Wall Street Its Illinois Plants Make Money So Why Is It Still Asking Springfield For A Bailout?? (05-06)
Stop the silly games (05-06)
Question of the day (05-06)
Poll: Chicagoans are fed up (05-06)
Kudos and barbs (05-06)
Sen. Kirk says Trump a "net benefit" to the party (05-06)
SIU warns of big trouble directly ahead (05-06)
Kristen McQueary discovers her inner Poindexter (05-06)
More like this, please (05-06)
More green shoots? (05-06)
Emanuel refuses CTU's offer to help (05-06)
*** UPDATED x1 *** No Cleveland for Rauner (05-06)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Supplement to today’s edition (05-06)
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Good morning! (05-06)
It's not as clear as it looks (05-05)
Exelon Tells Wall Street Its Illinois Plants Make Money So Why Is It Still Asking Springfield For A Bailout?? (05-05)
EIU warns that stopgap won't be nearly enough (05-05)
Today's lede (05-05)
Question of the day (05-05)
Fun with numbers (05-05)
Nuclear Energy: Keeping the Lights on for Illinois’ Businesses (05-05)
Poll: 54 percent disapprove of Rauner in 99th House District (05-05)
Keep Fantasy Sports in Illinois (05-05)
Why the hostages sued (05-05)
Remap reform proposal crashes and burns in subcommittee (05-05)
CTU proposes concrete revenue plan (05-05)
*** UPDATED x1 - Trump last year: "I hear very good things about him" *** Trump never heard of Rauner? (05-05)
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*** LIVE *** Session Coverage (05-05)
Good morning! (05-05)
Oops (05-04)
CPS running on fumes (05-04)
This has to change (05-04)
Today's number: 86 percent (05-04)
Department of Revenue projection slammed as "absurd" (05-04)
Looking on the bright side (05-04)
*** UPDATED x1 - Cullerton responds *** Manar proposal whacked by GOP (05-04)
Stuff that sounds good (05-04)
Illinois Credit Unions: Giving Back to Our Communities (05-04)
State receipts down $5 billion, unpaid health insurance claims top $3 billion (05-04)
Lawsuit filed by unpaid social service providers (05-04)
Games people play (05-04)
Lucas threatens to walk (05-04)
Whistling past the graveyard (05-04)
Group warns another power generator has hands out in GA (05-04)
*** UPDATED x1 - Mitchell won't call it *** Graduated tax hike blasted (05-04)
Today's quotable (05-04)
*** LIVE *** Session Coverage (05-04)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Supplement to today’s edition (05-04)
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Moody's states the obvious (05-03)
Question of the day (05-03)
Setting the Record Straight: Getting Solar Right in Illinois (05-03)
Nuclear Energy: Keeping the Lights on for Illinois’ Businesses (05-03)
MALDEF prefers Franks remap reform over Independent Maps' proposal (05-03)
Open thread (05-03)
Lead, follow or get the heck out of the way (05-03)
Daley's tinfoil hat (05-03)
30-day pause in Lucas lawsuit (05-03)
Brady amendment kills lite guv proposal (05-03)
*** LIVE *** Session Coverage (05-03)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Update (05-03)
"Once it goes, it’s virtually impossible to rebuild" (05-03)
Graduated income tax backers predict bipartisan support (05-03)
More bad news for Exelon (05-03)
Civic Federation rips Rauner budget proposal (05-03)
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Yeah, I know the feeling (05-02)
When "nonprofit" means "highly profitable" (05-02)
50 UIUC students disrupt Rauner visit (05-02)
Zopp tapped to be deputy mayor (05-02)
Question of the day (05-02)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's events (05-02)
It's all about the 1 percent (05-02)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Utility companies behaving badly (05-02)
Proft warns "quislings" (05-02)
Stopgap can't stop massive CSU layoffs (05-02)
Report: CTU could delay strike (05-02)
Reasons for hope? (05-02)
Naïve cynicism and Illinois (05-02)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Supplement to today’s edition (05-02)
History made on the South Side (05-02)
Meep-meep (05-02)
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