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This looks like the Republican year of 1994Jaws takes a biteWho’s behind Stand for Children?The counts they didn’t get Blago onSomething to Stu over if Jim Ryan runs for governorLook who’s Pat Quinn’s new best friendCareful what you sayWhen a candidate for governor tries to help out a puppy gas chamberQuinn will do whatever it takes to winChris Kelly, Blagojevich’s loyal friend
Politics - Rich Miller | Thursday, June 23,2011
Why the Senate Dems backed down on spending
Gov. Pat Quinn was willing to offer up only the tiniest of face-saving possibilities to the Illinois Senate Democrats last week: Drop your budget demands, and we’ll talk about them this fall, bu
Politics - Rich Miller | Thursday, June 16,2011
Why legislators may be back in July
Illinois Senate President John Cullerton says he had a simple message for House Republican Leader Tom Cross in the waning hours of the spring legislative session: “See you in July.”As you
Politics - Rich Miller | Thursday, June 9,2011
Madigan wins workers’ comp battle
In all the years I’ve covered Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, he has never allowed his chamber’s Republican minority leader to best him. A minority leader might score a win here an
Politics - Rich Miller | Thursday, June 2,2011
Quinn is out of touch on budget
Shortly after Gov. Pat Quinn introduced a budget this year which was way out of balance, called for even higher taxes and increased state spending, the General Assembly decided to ignore him.That was
Politics - Rich Miller | Thursday, May 26,2011
Too much mapmaking mischief
Statehouse paranoia and angst are always at an all-time high every 10 years in Springfield.Why? The new state legislative district maps are drawn, and that highly political process always involves gen
Politics - Rich Miller | Thursday, May 19,2011
Corporations make Illinois pay to keep them here
With the economy the way it is, just about every state in the country is frantically scrambling to keep their local corporations from leaving, or attracting new jobs by doling out huge government ince
Politics - Rich Miller | Thursday, May 12,2011
How will new Chicago mayor work with Statehouse?
Rahm Emanuel will be sworn in as Chicago’s new mayor on May 16, just 15 days before the end of the state legislative session. So, while Emanuel has more than enough on his plate dealing with the
Politics - Rich Miller | Thursday, May 5,2011
No agreement in sight on workers’ comp reform
As if it weren’t already complicated enough to pass a workers’ compensation reform bill – what with unions, trial lawyers and the medical community so far allied together against maj
Politics - Rich Miller | Thursday, April 28,2011
Bill to protect sales tax havens backfires
Some big Chicago-area retailers have found a way to avoid paying high local sales taxes on their wholesale purchases. They’ve essentially set up their own “tax havens” in downstate c
Politics - Rich Miller | Thursday, April 21,2011
Bud brings beer wars to Springfield
Anheuser-Busch has reportedly hired more than a dozen Statehouse lobbyists this spring to protect its interests in a long-running battle to control how it distributes its brews in Illinois.The St. Lou
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