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This looks like the Republican year of 1994Jaws takes a biteThe counts they didn’t get Blago onWho’s behind Stand for Children?When a candidate for governor tries to help out a puppy gas chamberLook who’s Pat Quinn’s new best friendCareful what you sayQuinn will do whatever it takes to winSomething to Stu over if Jim Ryan runs for governorChris Kelly, Blagojevich’s loyal friend
Politics - Rich Miller | Thursday, February 2,2012
Madigan: Let school districts pay for teacher pensions
Last week, powerful Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan appeared to all but endorse an idea to force downstate and suburban school districts to pay a significant share of their state pension contri
Politics - Rich Miller | Thursday, January 26,2012
Contribution caps aren’t slowing political cash
Back when the reformers demanded that state campaign contributions be capped, they said it would limit the dollars flowing into Illinois political funds. But, overall, contributions have only bar
Politics - Rich Miller | Thursday, January 19,2012
Illinois pushes back credit ratings gloom and doom
As you probably know already, Moody’s slapped Illinois with its worst credit rating of any state in the nation earlier this month.But while Moody’s report was damaging, S&P’s rat
Politics - Rich Miller | Thursday, January 12,2012
Quinn’s plan shows state can’t afford to let tax hike expire
He didn’t come out and say it, but Gov. Pat Quinn has apparently abandoned his promise to allow the “temporary” income tax hikes to expire three years from now. The governor submitte
Politics - Rich Miller | Thursday, December 29,2011
Cook County helps pay downstate’s way
I talked with former state senator Howie Carroll last week about state Rep. Bill Mitchell’s (R-Forsyth) proposal to kick Chicago and suburban Cook County out of Illinois. Mitchell’s resolu
Politics - Rich Miller | Thursday, December 22,2011
After corporate tax break, other companies ask, ‘Where’s mine?’
A massive turnaround in the Illinois House may have whetted political appetites for even more corporate tax relief. But don’t count on it just yetAs you may recall, a tax cut plan for corporatio
Politics - Rich Miller | Thursday, December 15,2011
What to tell the Blagojevich daughters?
“I... I... I... I... I couldn’t fathom what I would say to those two girls,” U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald stammered last week when asked what he would say to Rod Blagojevich&rsqu
Politics - Rich Miller | Thursday, December 8,2011
Why the business tax cut failed
It’s a fairly common Statehouse phenomenon that bills will zoom out of the Senate or the House and then flame out in the other chamber. People in the other chamber just don’t always care a
Politics - Rich Miller | Wednesday, November 23,2011
Court to rule on Springfield legislative district
GOP charges racial gerrymandering includes east side with Decatur
While all eyes last week turned to the Republicans’ lawsuit against the new federal district map for U.S. congressmen, a similar GOP lawsuit against the legislative district map for Springfield&
Politics - Rich Miller | Thursday, November 17,2011
When will Quinn learn not to slam legislature?
“I love this governor!” exclaimed a jubilant utility lobbyist a few weeks ago. Why would a utility lobbyist express his undying love for our self-proclaimed consumer activist governor? Sim
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