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July 2014 Posts

National Review trashes Quinn (07-31)
Question of the day (07-31)
Rauner mocks new Quinn TV ad (07-31)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Rauner releases ag plan (07-31)
A third poll shows tighter race (07-31)
Topinka continues string of union endorsements (07-31)
Smallish potatoes (07-31)
Sabato: Rauner now deemed favorite (07-31)
Rahm has a point, but... (07-31)
Rauner goes to ground in face of corporate inversion questions (07-31)
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IFT endorses Quinn (07-30)
Right and wrong (07-30)
Question of the day (07-30)
Department of Insurance says insurers can't discriminate "based on gender identity" (07-30)
Today's quotable (07-30)
Rauner group files appeal in term limits case (07-30)
Inversion politics (07-30)
$300,000 a week in July (07-30)
About those new polls (07-30)
Today's number: 59 percent (07-30)
New Quinn ad sparks Dem criticism (07-29)
Beware October (07-29)
Question of the day (07-29)
Quinn signs millionaire's tax referendum (07-29)
Today's map (07-29)
Thanks, but I'll pass (07-29)
Roberts appointment questioned (07-29)
Poll: Rauner has 14-point lead (07-29)
Today's rant (07-29)
*** UPDATED x2 *** Quinn campaign goes up with first TV ad of the season (07-29)
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Another angle on the IHSA lawsuit (07-28)
Was Rauner consultant behind anti-Schock ads? (07-28)
False equivalence taken too far (07-28)
The weekend in Facebook (07-28)
Subscribers Only - Events list (use last week's password) (07-28)
Question of the day (07-28)
Republicans look to the future (07-28)
*** UPDATED x1 - Beer tickets? *** OEIG: Rednour solicited a big gift, Bliefnick improperly accepted gifts (07-28)
Rauner investing heavily in campaign infrastructure (07-28)
Yet another stumble (07-28)
Reader comments closed for the weekend (07-25)
Question of the day (07-25)
Emanuel blames state for phony school budget (07-25)
AFSCME: Cullerton plan "looks like extortion" (07-25)
BGA sues IHSA over FOIA (07-25)
Michelle Obama pledges "everything in our power" to help Quinn (07-25)
The consequences of budget cuts (07-25)
Meza wants to become involved in patronage lawsuit (07-25)
"Instant responders" (07-25)
Cullerton mulls a solution while the savants incite panic (07-25)
Here comes teh crazy - for real (07-25)
Caption contest! (07-25)
Today's quotable (07-25)
Adventures in state-funded stupidity (07-25)
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Question of the day (07-24)
Today's numbers are grim, but slightly hopeful (07-24)
One way or the other, the bill has to be paid (07-24)
Tax issues are bipartisan because they work (07-24)
Adventures in tracking (07-24)
Thompson says namesake building "looks like a scrap heap" (07-24)
Rauner takes page from Oberweis playbook (07-24)
Today's must-read (07-24)
Fanning the flames (07-24)
*** UPDATED x2 - Quinn responds to Rauner - Rauner responds *** The assault weapons front opens wider (07-24)
Teh crazy spreads (07-24)
Bost: "minimum wage will actually hurt the middle class" (07-23)
S&P revises Illinois outlook to "negative" (07-23)
Let's try that NRI document dump again (07-23)
What's ahead? (07-23)
Question of the day (07-23)
Teh crazy (07-23)
Lawyers want expedited pension ruling (07-23)
Briefing schedule, threats issued (07-23)
A look at another aspect of the Rauner proposal: Property taxes (07-23)
Quinn opens new front in campaign: Assault weapons (07-23)
Cross turns thumbs down on Rauner service tax (07-23)
Define "regularly" (07-23)
Internal Maywood politics caused shift in NRI grant money (07-23)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Rate Rauner's new TV ad (07-23)
Frerichs has new idea (07-22)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Rauner sides with Uber (07-22)
Question of the day (07-22)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Rauner campaign claims Quinn security detail "verbally assaulted and physically removed" a tracker (07-22)
Judge rules state can close Murray Center (07-22)
Griffin talks about what he's up to here (07-22)
NFIB "will lead the fight" against Rauner service tax (07-22)
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A silly Koch poke (07-22)
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Appellate court approves expedited term limits hearings (07-22)
What do they do now? (07-22)
Today's oppo dump (07-22)
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"Rauner opens door to higher income tax rate" (07-21)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Israeli card played in treasurer's race (07-21)
Rothenberg moves CD10 to "Pure Toss-Up" partly because of Quinn (07-21)
Lisa Madigan's end game (07-21)
Mo' money (07-21)
*** UPDATED x2 *** Question of the day - WITHDRAWN (07-21)
Save the date! (07-21)
Go, go White Sox! (07-21)
Simon responds to JBT story (07-21)
Caption contest! (07-21)
Breaking an NRI paradigm (07-21)
Reducing violence by reducing some penalties? (07-21)
Polling the "Rauner tax" (07-21)
Reader comments closed for the weekend (07-18)
Feds respond to Blagojevich filing (07-18)
Report: Radio station refuses Durbin request to pull negative ad (07-18)
Question of the day (07-18)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Another $1.5 million from Rauner (07-18)
Arghh!!! The earworm!!! It burns!!! (07-18)
Personal PAC wants more answers (07-18)
Rate Rauner's new social media ads (07-18)
Spread it out, lower the rates (07-18)
Keeping the story alive (07-18)
Time's running out fast (07-18)
Raoul utterly perplexed at story (07-18)
Today's number: 13,000 (07-18)
Spinning and counter-spinning (07-18)
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This just in... (07-17)
Today's numbers: 193 and 7.1 (07-17)
Question of the day (07-17)
Rauner plan react (07-17)
Rauner wants new service tax, cuts to income tax, freeze in property tax (07-17)
Are the grownups asserting themselves? (07-17)
Rate the new Quinn video (07-17)
Money reports (07-17)
Text of Rod Blagojevich's appeal (07-17)
*** LIVE COVERAGE *** Legislative Audit Commission hearing (07-17)
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Griffin contributes another $1.5 million (07-16)
Another step forward on medical marijuana (07-16)
Caption contest! (07-16)
Question of the day (07-16)
Blagojevich lawyers file new appeal claim (07-16)
*** UPDATED x1 - "She did not ask him for a job" *** Did JBT ask Quinn to help her son get a job? (07-16)
Top ten donors to Rauner and Quinn (07-16)
Campaign TV ad buyers love crime shows (07-16)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Rate the new anti-Rauner TV ad (07-16)
A serious allegation against the Tribune (07-16)
*** UPDATED *** LIVE VIDEO * Legislative Audit Commission (07-16)
This just in... Heat turned up: US Attorney asks Commission for delay (07-15)
Question of the day (07-15)
Rauner claims he raised $8 million with $3.5 mil on hand (07-15)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Preckwinkle formally takes herself out of the mayor's race (07-15)
The cost of corruption (07-15)
The city that makes it hard to work (07-15)
Not good enough (07-15)
Quinn to report $3.7 million raised, more than $12 million on hand (07-15)
Medical pot company bulks up (07-15)
Not there yet (07-15)
Not quite so egregious (07-15)
Trib uncovers more problems with Quinn program (07-15)
Frerichs to tout new IEA endorsement (07-15)
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I get letters (07-14)
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Social media odds and ends (07-14)
Today's number: $750,000 (07-14)
Question of the day (07-14)
Rate the IFT's new video (07-14)
Today's quotables (07-14)
Rutherford's huge internship program (07-14)
*** UPDATED x1 - GOP response *** More nursing home woes for Rauner (07-14)
Quinn tries to take back anti-violence issue (07-14)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Missing the point, Part 2: Elitist snobs cover for the bureaucracy (07-14)
Missing the point (07-14)
Libertarians object to apparent GOP-backed petition challenge (07-14)
Rauner up by 12 (07-14)
Reader comments closed for the weekend (07-11)
Rauner dodges fairness question (07-11)
Moody's: Supreme Court ruling "credit negative" for Illinois, local governments (07-11)
Ten single-stall ISU bathrooms have Fox News in a snit (07-11)
Question of the day (07-11)
Oh, please (07-11)
Infighting, incompetence and intransigence at the Lincoln museum (07-11)
New radio ad slams Durbin on equal pay (07-11)
Gay rights group wants Rauner to return contributions (07-11)
*** UPDATED x1 - Quinn response *** Rate Bruce Rauner's new negative TV ad (07-11)
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*** UPDATED x1 *** Justice Deparment: "Substantial risks" to investigation (07-10)
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*** UPDATED x1 *** Sandack reverses himself (07-10)
Today's quotable (07-10)
Pat Boone backs candidate here (07-10)
Uber demands a veto (07-10)
Questions of the day (07-10)
Over 5,000 gay marriage licenses since June 1st (07-10)
Those Texas taxes (07-10)
Farnham working on plea deal (07-10)
Pew looks at Statehouse reporters (07-10)
A sign of the times (07-10)
Today's number: 4 (07-10)
Topinka: Phase out tax hike over two years (07-10)
Quinn and congressional Democrats (07-10)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Just 90 days? (07-10)
Rauner and Stroger? (07-09)
Feds want Audit Commission to "defer" (07-09)
Uber pegs HQ job growth to Quinn veto (07-09)
Question of the day (07-09)
Quinn once again hits Rauner on taxes (07-09)
Shakman rebuts Quinn in new filing (07-09)
Cross claims to have raised half a mil in second quarter (07-09)
Rick Perry runs his mouth off again (07-09)
Tribune: "Dear Leader" Madigan's members "marching in subservient humiliation as his dupes" (07-09)
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Something's missing here (07-08)
Today's quotable (07-08)
Caption contest! (07-08)
Question of the day (07-08)
*** UPDATED x1 *** You can't release what you haven't yet filed (07-08)
A gigantic problem (07-08)
Today's number: $13 (07-08)
Time for a law change (07-08)
Madigan patronage report leaked (07-08)
Whistleblowers fired (07-08)
Chicago's security priorities (07-07)
Simon demands transparency from Rauner, holds her fire on Topinka (07-07)
Sullivan named to HGOP leadership team (07-07)
Question of the day (07-07)
Today's numbers (07-07)
Senate Dems finally approve FOIA request on Frerichs (07-07)
Buried on the 4th of July (07-07)
What now? (07-07)
Caption contest! (07-07)
“Generally speaking, my political career was built on goodwill and accommodation” (07-07)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Rate the new Oberweis radio ad (07-07)
Chicken men (07-07)
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Reader comments closed for the 4th of July holiday (07-03)
*** UPDATED 1x - Raoul responds *** Quinn, Lisa Madigan respond (07-03)
Civic Committee responds (07-03)
AFSCME responds (07-03)
Cullerton responds (07-03)
From Justice Burke's dissent (07-03)
Quinn withholds College of DuPage building cash (07-03)
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This just in... Reversed and remanded (07-03)
Hinz looks at Hobby Lobby (07-03)
*** UPDATED x1 - The Cicero quote is bogus *** Ives: "Madigan and his supermajority of traitors" (07-02)
Question of the day (07-02)
*** UPDATED x1 - Fox blocks Quinn video a second time *** Rate the new Rauner YouTube video - Quinn uses Mr. Burns again (07-02)
Two very different shootings (07-02)
*** UPDATED x1 - Topinka also endorsed by IEA *** IEA endorses Quinn (07-02)
*** UPDATED x1 - Rep. Harms pulls out of race *** Rep. Jefferson stepping down (07-02)
Tribune exposes big potential campaign problem for Rauner (07-02)
Today's quotable (07-02)
Bill Roberts named new Legislative Inspector General (07-02)
Illinois Supreme Court could tip its hand on pensions tomorrow (07-02)
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Question of the day (07-01)
A modest reform with enormous potential (07-01)
Schneider out at IDOT (07-01)
React and insight from both sides (07-01)
"Wishing away" the revenue collapse (07-01)

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