I am an ethics outlaw. Recently I received formal notice that I had failed to complete the required ethics training for state employees. The notice, which included the threat of a $5,000 fine and disciplinary action, was the result of my disagreement with the answers given on the ethics quiz. In other words, I gave […]
John K. Wilson
John Wilson is a Normal writer, and founder
of The Indy, the independent newspaper
of Bloomington-Normal.
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Broadcast ooze
Sinclair Broadcast Group, which is ordering its 62 stations to air an anti-John Kerry documentary next week, is so conservative that it makes Fox News look, well, fair and balanced. So far this year, Sinclair executives have given nearly 98 percent of their political contributions to Republican candidates. Sinclair newscasts, including those on WICS-TV in […]
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Keyes to victory?
The new Illinois Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, Maryland activist Alan Keyes, may be most famous for his most liberal act: jumping into a mosh pit while Rage Against the Machine performed, body-surfing the crowd, and exchanging body slams with a spiky-haired teen as a means of getting filmmaker Michael Moore’s endorsement for president […]
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Kerasotes 9/11
Families often fight about what movies to show. But among the members of Springfield’s famous movie-theater clan, the Kerasotes family, Michael Moore’s controversial new movie Fahrenheit 9/11 has produced very different reactions. The biggest-grossing documentary in history, Fahrenheit 9/11 is drawing more customers to movie theaters than most big-budget Hollywood films do. But it still […]
