Politics - Rich Miller | Thursday, October 1,2009

Look who’s Pat Quinn’s new best friend

Gov. Pat Quinn brought out one of the biggest Democratic Party guns possible last week in his latest fight with Comptroller Dan Hynes.

Politics - Rich Miller | Thursday, September 24,2009

Chris Kelly, Blagojevich’s loyal friend

By Rich Miller

A couple of years ago, Rod Blagojevich told me during a private conversation that all the talk about how close he supposedly was to indicted fundraiser Tony Rezko was just that.

Politics - Rich Miller | Thursday, September 17,2009

Hynes has a decent plan, and a problem

By Rich Miller

There were no spectacular backdrops in place when Illinois Comptroller Dan Hynes officially announced his campaign for governor the other day. No pretty pictures for the TV cameras. No gathering of hi

Politics - Rich Miller | Thursday, September 10,2009

The Governor blames everybody but himself

By Rich Miller

As expected, former Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s new book paints himself as the hero of Illinois politics and blames everyone but himself for his troubles. He also tries to settle an old score. Blagoj

Politics - Rich Miller | Thursday, September 3,2009

Hynes challenge could toughen up Quinn

By Rich Miller

There’s been quite a bit of private grumbling by Democratic county party chairpersons and other party leaders about Comptroller Dan Hynes’ decision to run in the February primary against G

Politics - Rich Miller | Thursday, August 27,2009

State Republicans energized for the good ol’ days

By Rich Miller

Republicans, as a class, tend to pine for the good ol’ days — mainly, the eras when they were in power. That’s been especially true in Illinois as the Republicans, uniformly blown ou

Politics - Rich Miller | Thursday, August 6,2009

Clayborne would be a different sort of candidate for governor

By Rich Miller

While fellow Democrats Gov. Pat Quinn and Comptroller Dan Hynes were hurling insults about the state budget at each other several days ago, I picked up the phone and called Illinois Senate Majority

Politics - Rich Miller | Thursday, July 30,2009

Drowning in red ink

Erasing five years of preschool progress, and other travesties

By Rich Miller

Moments after members of the Illinois State Board of Education voted to cut the board’s budget by a net $180 million last week, an activist group called Voices for Illinois Children sent out a

Politics - Rich Miller | Thursday, July 23,2009

You call this a budget?

By Rich Miller

The budget — if you can call it that — which passed the General Assembly last week has as much as a $5 billion hole in it, borrows over $7 billion from Wall Street and state ve

Politics - Rich Miller | Thursday, July 16,2009

Mike Madigan’s agenda revealed

By Rich Miller

“You guys are going to have to come up with a new conspiracy theory,” Attorney General Lisa Madigan told Rockford Register-Star columnist Wally Haas last week about her decision to go for