What's Adoption DayThe day the judge in Ethiopia officially named us Selah's parents The day we came home and became a family of 5 The day the judge in Sangamon County approves the adoption You pick...Monday was our official re-adoption hearing i...
By Jamey DunnGov. Pat Quinn proposed to increase the state income tax by 1 percentage point during his budget address today, saying the money would be needed to stave off drastic cuts to education.Quinn said federal stimulus funds protected education from...
Global Warming alert!!70+ degrees today helps this cinder laced glacier”morph” into a pick-up truck.
Posted by Techno-News Blog
As we creep on toward the iPad launch, developers are scurrying about getting their apps ship-shape, consumers are twiddling their thumbs waiting for pre-orders to be announced, and print publishers are making preparations. Apple, of course, announced tha...
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Just a couple of weeks ago, Google released Buzz, a social networking tool integrated into its e-mail service, Gmail. Google Buzz, designed to complement existing web services, merges features from both Twitter and Facebook, allowing users to communicate ...
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...it's driven by the same old media love affair with distribution lock in. I've been on about this ever since I studied Google in 2001: Media traditionally has gained its profits by owning distribution. Cable carriage, network airwaves, newsstand distrib...

Posted by Grace Uncensored
i was wondering what i’d take pictures of around here, now that the snow geese seem to be gone, as well as most of the other geese.  but then we were outside and THERE WAS A SKIER! ok, so, sure, it’s warm and incredibly wonderfully warm today...
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NOT A BAILOUT FOR NEWSPAPERS: The Nichols and McChesney Rescue Plan for JournalismThere is a real solution to what’s ailing journalism.The issue is, much like how it’s easier to criticize than find solutions, that it’s much easier to report on only ...
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* Speaker Madigan talked to Public TV after the governor’s speech. We taped it off a monitor. Have a look…* Tom Cross spoke to me just after the speech and was pretty harsh…More in a bit.
I guess the newspapers that criticized Quinn's long, rambling speech to the General Assembly last time will have to find something else to critique after his very short budget address. Personally, I prefer Quinn's free-form speaking style to Blagojevich'...

• Have at it in comments. Thanks. * From a Quinn press release… The budget also includes more than $2 billion in proposed cuts, including a deep reduction in education funding. In his budget address, Governor Quinn called on the General Assemb...
• Have at it in comments. Thanks.
This one is for my sister and her daughter. When your first eggplant arrives in the CSA box, I think the kiddies will be all over these breaded fingers designed for dipping!I'm not sure that there is anything healthy about vegetables that have been breade...
I had an emergency on the way home from work. Please send more emergency Salted Nut Rolls for the car. Thanks much. PS... It was delicious!
Posted by Springfield Moms 2 days 8 minutes ago.
Recently my daughter had a party at school to celebrate Dr. Seuss's birthday.  What a creative talent and legacy he has left behind for so many generations. Through unique words and eclectic characters, he certainly had a story to tell in a way that...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 days 15 minutes ago.
*** UPDATE *** I just got off the phone with Fox Chicago. They accidentally misreported the numbers this morning. The actual numbers are… Giannoulias 44 Kirk 41 Undecided 10 Other 5 The poll was taken March 8th (the same day as the Quinn/Brady po...

Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 days 15 minutes ago.
* Fox Chicago displayed this chart today about Rasmussen’s latest US Senate numbers…Rasmussen hasn’t posted the numbers as of 10 o’clock this morning, but I’ll check back later. So, what the heck is going on Yesterday̵...
Posted by Five O'Clock Blogger 2 days 37 minutes ago.
The Hot Stove.com blog has a regular series in which it poses team-specific questions to a few bloggers who cover said teams, and on Tuesday, this was asked of a couple Cardinals bloggers: With the Cardinals’ outfield set for 2010, what will become of t...
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