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* Great Wall Street Journal article on Amtrak featuring Illinois’ Lincoln Service
* City Hall still not following anti-patronage rules, monitor says
A year after submitting a blueprint to clean up its scandal-plagued hiring system, the city has “failed to comply” with parts of its own plan, city hiring monitor Noelle Brennan said in a report filed in federal court.
* Some of Burke’s war chest may violate ethics law
* Judge grants Fast Eddie’s slow motion
* More cost-cuts to follow Sun Times’ gloomy Q2
* O’Hare-area demolitions may proceed in Bensenville, judge rules
* South Side Residents Launch Campaign to Demand Protection for Homes and Jobs
* Lincoln event slated at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home
* State fair kicks off with Twilight Parade
* Did gov skip parade of hecklers?
“I just don’t think he’d have been well-accepted at all,” Poe said. “… When you treat a county like he has treated Sangamon County, it’s pretty hard to get any respect.”
* State Fair parade video
* And the Spammiest State Is…
* Rolling Stones classic wakes grandfather from coma
* Cavaletto Signs No-New-Tax Pledge
“People down here need to know they can count on their elected representative to stand up for them against tax-and-spend Democrat policies,” said Cavaletto. “As your State Representative, I will vote against any income tax, sales tax or other tax increase on families and area businesses.”
* URF’s 8 in 08 Gary Dahl: State Senator for the 38th
* Politicians running for 59th Senate seat say nay to raises
* Sen. Brady:Members of health board should be terminated
“… We cannot pretend to reform the health-care planning process in Illinois without replacing the executive secretary who steered it during a time when we now know its activities reeked of corruption.”
* Local gun rights advocate speaks to Rotarians
* AT&T’s PEG System fails to comply with Illinois law
* Illinois state parks in dire straits
* Our opinion: Blagojevich’s bill rewrite harms state
* Governor: Coal is ‘Comeback Kid’
“As the nation searches feverishly for clean, affordable, secure sources of fuel, coal is the Comeback Kid of the energy game.”
* A Failed Governor, Failing Illinois
* Polling: A Greater Margin for Error
* Average Joes struggle to be heard as campaign system favors the rich
* Congressional candidates rake in millions
* Measuring the Oprah Effect: 1,000,000 Votes
According to a study by university economists Craig Garthwaite and Tim Moore, it added about 1,000,000 votes to Obama’s column in the contested primary battle.
* Friday Beer Blogging: Stag Edtion
posted by Kevin Fanning
Friday, Aug 8, 08 @ 2:36 am
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