Despite easily winning two consecutive statewide elections, a recent Chicago Tribune poll has Comptroller Dan Hynes at just 14 percent in the U.S. Senate race. Even worse, Hynes is tied with two of his opponents, Maria Pappas and Barack Obama. How can Dan Hynes possibly be polling just 14 percent in this race? And how […]
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Letters 1-15-04
Letters policy We welcome letters, but please include your full name, address and a daytime telephone number. We edit all letters for libel, length and clarity. Send letters to: Letters, Illinois Times. P.O. Box 5256. Springfield, Illinois 62705. Fax: (217) 753-3958. E-mail: editor@illinoistimes.com OFF WITH THEIR HEADS Springfield’s present $7 million debt was caused by […]
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Letters 1-8-04
Letters policy We welcome letters, but please include your full name, address and a daytime telephone number. We edit all letters for libel, length and clarity. Send letters to: Letters, Illinois Times. P.O. Box 5256. Springfield, Illinois 62705. Fax: (217) 753-3958. E-mail: editor@illinoistimes.com MINER’S POINT Meg Miner’s letter to the Illinois Times was thorough and […]
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Letters 1-1-04
Letters policy We welcome letters, but please include your full name, address and a daytime telephone number. We edit all letters for libel, length and clarity. Send letters to: Letters, Illinois Times. P.O. Box 5256. Springfield, Illinois 62705. Fax: (217) 753-3958. E-mail: editor@illinoistimes.com KEEP ‘EM COMING While I have always enjoyed reading Illinois Times, I […]
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The P.U.-Litzer Prizes for 2003
The P.U.-litzer Prizes were established more than a decade ago to recognize the stinkiest media performances of the year. As usual, I have conferred with Jeff Cohen, founder of the media watch group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), to sift through the large volume of entries. In view of the many deserving competitors, we […]
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Letters 12-25-03
Letters policy We welcome letters, but please include your full name, address and a daytime telephone number. We edit all letters for libel, length and clarity. Send letters to: Letters, Illinois Times. P.O. Box 5256. Springfield, Illinois 62705. Fax: (217) 753-3958. E-mail: editor@illinoistimes.com GIVE ‘EM A CHEER The Springfield High School Cheerleaders recently won first […]
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Small potatoes
“A prosecutor once described political corruption as a ‘time-honored tradition’ in Illinois, but the scandal outlined in a 91-page indictment against former Gov. George Ryan might be the worst yet,” the Associated Press claimed last week. At the risk of sounding like an apologist for this state’s Public Enemy Number one, gimme a break. Most […]
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Remembering Paul Simon
My father is a Barry Goldwater Republican. He never voted for a Democrat — until 1984. To this day, dad sports a “Goldwater for President” campaign sticker on his prized 1963 Cadillac convertible. But in the year of the Ronald Reagan landslide, my dad voted for his first Democrat, U.S. Senate candidate Paul Simon. My […]
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Letters 12-18-03
Letters policy We welcome letters, but please include your full name, address and a daytime telephone number. We edit all letters for libel, length and clarity. Send letters to: Letters, Illinois Times. P.O. Box 5256. Springfield, Illinois 62705. Fax: (217) 753-3958. E-mail: editor@illinoistimes.com ABE AND GEORGE I think that the piece by Jeannette Batz in […]
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Like a rose
Every year, at least one big corporation hires top lobbyists, signs up a PR firm, cuts a deal with pliable and influential third parties, and descends on Springfield with a clever proposal in hand. And every year, the big corporation wins. The media scream, reformers lament the influence of money on government, and nothing changes. […]
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Wooing single women
Meet the single woman, breadwinner, cultural icon, and the star of every liberal’s dream of regime change. Whether she is a divorced waitress in Harlem, a welfare mom in Iowa, or that 30-something singleton sipping a Cosmopolitan at your local bar, the unmarried woman may hold the fate of the 2004 elections in the palm […]
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Letters 12-11-03
Letters policy We welcome letters, but please include your full name, address and a daytime telephone number. We edit all letters for libel, length and clarity. Send letters to: Letters, Illinois Times. P.O. Box 5256. Springfield, Illinois 62705. Fax: (217) 753-3958. E-mail: editor@illinoistimes.com ANOTHER MYSTERY Just to add to the mystery regarding the World War […]
