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posted by Rich Miller
Friday, Feb 4, 22 @ 9:11 am

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another week with no decision from judge Grischow is getting interesting.

Comment by TheInvisibleMan Friday, Feb 4, 22 @ 9:15 am
Spring and DST. Can’t come soon enough.

Comment by Flyin' Elvis'-Utah Chapter Friday, Feb 4, 22 @ 9:15 am
Good luck to all the teams traveling to B/N for the Competitive Cheerleading state finals

Comment by Donnie Elgin Friday, Feb 4, 22 @ 9:19 am
OW. I read you are going down to St. Loo thus weekend. I am here now for follow up. roads are so so. main hwys one or two lanes snow free. Secondary and side roads snow covered.

Comment by Blue Dog Friday, Feb 4, 22 @ 9:19 am
- Blue Dog -

Thanks. Appreciate that. Feeling less concerned and you helped that too.

OW

Comment by Oswego Willy Friday, Feb 4, 22 @ 9:21 am
Roads are improving in my corner of the world down here, and crews are out working hard. Sunshine and no wind are really helping to get things going and cleared better. On a lighter - gotta love the neighbor down the road - he’s been out since sun up clearing everyone’s driveways etc. Does it with every snowfall “for fun”. Rural southern Illinois still has so many good people. The senior citizens in this household appreciate him more than ever these days. We’ll trade him fish and garden stuff come warm weather.

Comment by DownSouth Friday, Feb 4, 22 @ 9:42 am
My neighbor the Trump flag flying conservative, came over with his tractor and dug the Give Me A Break family out and plowed our drive which from garage to county road. That’s over 200 yards.

He told me, “you liberals problem have battery powered snow blowers and they won’t cut it out here”.

He’s a great guy who always helps us out and shares cold ones with me on the deck in the Summer. Goes to show the narrative we are all at war with each other is not always right.

Comment by Give Me A Break Friday, Feb 4, 22 @ 9:59 am
Re: Irvin’s comments on Abortion in the Flannery interview, who was the last pro-life politician to win a statewide campaign in Illinois. Peter Fitzgerald in ‘98? Anyone I’m blanking on?

Comment by Edyrdologist Friday, Feb 4, 22 @ 10:08 am
“Does it with every snowfall “for fun”

Exactly. It’s amazing how many good Samaritans show up in Central and Southern Illinois. I was using my snow blower, when a neighbor stopped and asked if I’d prefer for him to simply run his snow plow through. He was on his way to taking care of a 88 year old man’s driveway.

Comment by Downstate Friday, Feb 4, 22 @ 10:19 am
A day too late but what a statement win by Illinois on Wednesday night.

Comment by Pundent Friday, Feb 4, 22 @ 10:21 am
Anyone know why the IL Director of Labor suddenly resigned along with the health and safety manager for the same agency?

Comment by The Dude Friday, Feb 4, 22 @ 10:34 am
Kina Collins (running for Davis’s seat) just emailed me to say she was proud of being arrested at the Laquan McDonald protest yesterday. While I share her dissatisfaction with VanDyke’s sentence, I am bothered by the suggestion that VD got some sort of special treatment in getting an “early release.” Anybody who has a basic understanding of criminal justice in IL knew, without a doubt, that VD would get good time credit - just like every other convicted person in IL. I know they’re politicians, and everything is politics, but not protesting 3 years ago and bragging about getting arrested today just bothers me.

Comment by WestBurbs Friday, Feb 4, 22 @ 11:07 am
Pundent- yes, quite a performance by the Frightening Illini. That Kofi guy was amazing. 16 of 19 for 37 points. Reminiscent of Bill Walton vs Memphis State.

Comment by Friendly Bob Adams Friday, Feb 4, 22 @ 11:19 am
=== Rural southern Illinois still has so many good people. ===

Plowing a neighbors snow and then voting to take away their healthcare and rights. Let’s not forget about supporting a candidate whose immigration policy is to literally separate infants from their mothers and then cage the children.

If you want to discuss a region, you have to look at the big picture. Heck, you’re even qualifying Southern Illinois with rural. What’s wrong with urban Southern Illinois?

I’ve seen how rural counties in Southern Illinois tend to vote. “Good people” cannot be in the majority in those counties. We can try to over look 2016, but they knew what they were buying in 2020 and look how they voted. It’s important to have these conversations now so that in a couple of decades we’re not having a conversation about how we need to take “collective responsibility” for what those “good people” did.

Comment by Candy Dogood Friday, Feb 4, 22 @ 11:38 am
== Candy Dogood==

“Plowing a neighbors snow and then voting to take away their healthcare and rights”

The epitome of no good deed goes unpunished.

Comment by Donnie Elgin Friday, Feb 4, 22 @ 11:54 am
The best case scenario for this session is gridlock on every issue besides the budget. Maybe after the election people will be in a better frame of mind to govern thoughtfully.

Comment by charles in charge Friday, Feb 4, 22 @ 12:05 pm
==Spring and DST. Can’t come soon enough.==

Unfortunately, baseball won’t be joining those two this year, most likely.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/2/4/22918153/mlb-spring-training-likely-delayed-labor-negotiation-mlbpa

(Apologies for the photo in the S-T article below, unless you’re actually a Cub fan).

Comment by NonAFSCMEStateEmployeeFromChatham Friday, Feb 4, 22 @ 1:56 pm