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Top Articles from Politics - Rich Miller
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, September 15,2011
Quinn’s doomsday game gets old
I began to reminisce during Gov. Pat Quinn’s Chicago press conference last week. Quinn had called the media together to announce he was closing seven state facilities and laying off almost 2,000
Politics - Rich Miller | Thursday, September 8,2011
Anti-tax Republicans move in for the kill
Last year, the state Senate Republicans tested anti-tax messages in their campaigns without much success. While almost all Senate Democrats had voted for a large income tax hike along with an expansio
Politics - Rich Miller | Thursday, September 1,2011
Why Democrats are angry at each other
A few weeks ago, I ran into a fairly high-level Illinois Democrat at a party in Springfield. He said he’d taken my advice and was reading the New York Times’ “Disunion” Civil W
Politics - Rich Miller | Thursday, August 25,2011
Would‘unveto fix regional supts. mess?
Way back in 1981, Gov. Jim Thompson got into a fight with the Illinois General Assembly over who should fund the salaries of county state’s attorneys. By law, Illinois was on the hook for two-th
Politics - Rich Miller | Thursday, August 18,2011
Ratings agencies worry about fiscal future of Illinois
As we are all too painfully aware, the past few weeks have been beyond crazy. Congress and the president took the nation to the brink of default. Standard & Poor’s lowered the federal govern
Politics - Rich Miller | Thursday, August 11,2011
The changing faces of the General Assembly
Redistricting is a time for stock-taking; for looking back and looking ahead. State legislators who’ve been around a while are suddenly faced with the often stark reality of signing on for anoth
Politics - Rich Miller | Thursday, July 21,2011
How Stand for Children snuck into the Statehouse
Stand for Children’s national director Jonah Edelman spoke a little too freely at an Aspen Institute event this month. Edelman openly bragged about how his group had outfoxed the teachers
Politics - Rich Miller | Thursday, July 14,2011
Why Quinn canceled union pay raises
There are lots of different angles to Gov. Pat Quinn’s highly controversial decision to unilaterally refuse to pay scheduled, contractual pay raises to unionized state employees, so let’s
Politics - Rich Miller | Thursday, July 7,2011
The counts they didn’t get Blago on
While Rod Blagojevich’s jury found him guilty on 17 felony counts last week, jurors found him not guilty on one count and deadlocked on two others. Not much has been written about those other co
Politics - Rich Miller | Thursday, June 30,2011
The Senate president’s side of the budget story
Illinois Senate President John Cullerton has received a lot of bad press, sharp condemnation from Republicans and even some quiet criticism from his own members over the past month. But Cullerton made
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