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Posted by Illinois Issues blog 3 years ago.
As we head into the first week of the Illinois General Assemblys fall session, the biggest questions are whom will be selected to lead the Senate Democrats and the Senate Republicans Leaders of both caucuses are stepping down, opening the door for a rar...
Posted by The Eleventh Hour 3 years ago.
We need to get those Obama tourists here and spending money right away.State revenues continue to plummet, the Blagojevich administration warned today, threatening to blow another $1 billion hole in a state budget already strapped for cash.New projections...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 3 years ago.
We are all going to die.well not just yet.
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Why are oil prices droppingThe price of oil this morning is $72 a barrel — half of what it was three months ago. Ashley Miln...
Posted by Where there's a Will, there's a way 3 years ago.
I complain about conservative talk radio often enough. There's a quasi-fascist movement in this country egged on by conspiracy theorists like Glenn Beck and Michael Savage. And no, I don't think that describes their entire listening audience, but they tr...
Posted by honey & quinine 3 years ago.
A few weeks ago I gave a Midwest Family Radio Group advertising representative (who was/is courteous, friendly and competent) a copy of my book Springfield Aviation when she promised to deliver to WMAY program director Jim Leach. She returned a few days l...
Posted by Drinking Liberally 3 years ago.
With the election over, the discussion turns to how to keep progressive momentum going outside of the campaign. We need to do this to move a liberal agenda in DC; to keep newly-energized activists engaged; and to overall shift the debate in this country....
Posted by Courtney Westlake 3 years ago.
Cardinals fans and Illini fans - we liked this family from the start!! Even the dog was dressed in Cardinal gear :)We decided if the weather was nice, we could get some photos outside at the Sugar Creek Covered Bridge in Glenarm...I'd say 70 degrees and s...
Posted by UIS News Bureau 3 years ago.
Posted by The Voice 3 years ago.
An article at Time.com explains that officials in New Hampshire are considering a plan that would allow high school students to graduate after sophomore year. Here’s an excerpt from the story:High school sophomores should be ready for college by age...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 3 years ago.
* The Department of Revenue once again gives the SJ-R a scooplet an hour before it reached anyone else’s in-box…
New projections from the state Department of Revenue, provided first to The State Journal-Register, show the state could get $800...
Posted by A Salute to Some Stuff 3 years ago.
...As I said in a previous post, I planned to get back into illustrating among many other things. This is a preliminary rough sketch of a signature character of mine, Manx, in what will be an online comic coming this Spring. I will probably create another...
Posted by The Eleventh Hour 3 years ago.
Although, for social reasons, you dont want to have your young children running around saying it (particularly in public), there really is nothing wrong with the word. It doesnt demean or slander anyone. It isnt racist, sexist or any other ist. Its ...
Posted by BlogFreeSpringfield 3 years ago.
At the Risk of Raising Rancor
I did want to chime in on this whole election thing.
Write In, Right On
I knew it would come down to an election day decision. There were things I liked about both presidential candidates, and other things that I didn’t...
Posted by The Eleventh Hour 3 years ago.
This is the first in a regular series of short summaries of WMAY general manager Kevan Kavanaughs on-air commentaries. Obviously, I dont catch all of them but Ill post as I do. I listen so you don't have to.Shrter Kev: Blago sucks! This time because h...
Posted by Lincoln Studies 3 years ago.
Pulitzer Prize winning historian James McPherson will be appearing on VirtualBookSigning.net this evening at 6 pm Central. He will be signing copies of his new book, Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief.
CLICK HERE to order a signed cop...
Posted by Sage of Springfield 3 years ago.
Searching through YouTube after the election I found a video produced by LinkTV.org that summed up how various media organizations around the world reported Barack Obama's election.LinkTV's slogan is "TV Without Borders." I think it's worth a look so here...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 3 years ago.
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Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 3 years ago.
* The SouthtownStar dumps some much-needed cold water on all the “We’re gonna get us some pork!” cheerleading since Barack Obama’s Tuesday victory…
If we expect a pipeline of cash to flow to the Chicago area from the White H...
Posted by Where Dave Is 3 years ago.
Dave is
skipping ahead a few days to get to New Orleans.Jeff and Lou put together this trip to New Orleans for Halloween just as a chance to get out of town, see somewhere new and have some fun and I hoped onto it. They actually left to drive down on Mon...
Posted by The UIS Community 3 years ago.
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