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Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 1 week 3 days ago.
[House Speaker Michael Madigan spoke at Elmhurst College yesterday for more than an hour, then held a brief press conference afterward. He almost never does that, so this will be the first of a few posts on his speech.]
* An AP reporter was obviously qui...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 1 week 3 days ago.
* House Speaker Michael Madigan spoke at Elmhurst College yesterday for more than an hour, then held a brief press conference afterward. He almost never does that, so this will be the first of a few posts on his speech.
* An AP reporter was obviously q...
Posted by SpringfieldTrivia.com 1 week 3 days ago.
Not that new, I suppose, since it’s been up since 2010 – but new to me anyway. Litely Salted is site with tons of high-quality quizzes you can use to hone your trivia skills.
Check it out, and after you sign up, join our group!
http://www.li...
Posted by Grace Uncensored 1 week 3 days ago.
last night kevin was at a meeting and i was very focused on playing bejeweled on his computer. because there is something wrong with his computer, not only does it not connect to the internet, it also randomly restarts every once in a while. this was ...
Posted by Iggy Uncensored 1 week 3 days ago.
Three of these photos where taken as we headed back to our hotel from having dinner at Ginger Bistro in the Delmar Loop. The photo with the Sun blocking the view was shot as we drove to dinner. Going back to the hotel I rolled down the [...]
Posted by Iggy Uncensored 1 week 3 days ago.
Here is Saint Nicholas inside the President Abraham Lincoln Hotel Springfield Illinois. Rumor has it that the next evening someone either borrowed or stole Santa’s head. I’d venture a guess that some New Years Eve partiers decided it would be ...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 1 week 3 days ago.
* Google has a great analytical tool that you can use to compare unemployment rates over the years. I’ve done screen caps to make them easier to load. Here is the US rate since 1950, for instance…* And here’s the Illinois rate since 19...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 1 week 3 days ago.
* Google has a great analytical tool that you can use to compare unemployment rates over the years. I’ve done screen caps to make them easier to load. Here is the US rate since 1950, for instance…* And here’s the Illinois rate since 19...
Posted by Matt Penning Images 1 week 4 days ago.
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } The sun was out, the wind wasn’t at gale force, and I was ready to take a w...
Posted by Springfield Moms 1 week 4 days ago.
Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Springfield Moms has three packs of three tickets apiece to give away for the February 15th performance of Cirque du Soleil Quidam. (Tickets start at $33 for adults and $24 for children 12 and under.)
How do you win a ...
Posted by JoshMiller.net 1 week 4 days ago.
So a while ago, I designed and built my own Dance Dance Revolution Dance Pad. I’m not going to go too much into the details behind that, but for a variety of reasons, I’ve actually used it considerably less than I’d hoped. I also found r...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 1 week 4 days ago.
By Tom Simonite, Technology Review
The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas isn’t just a place to see new products from gadget giants like Samsung and Sony; it’s also a place to see small companies with disruptive ideas that become big consu...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 1 week 4 days ago.
by KFC, Technology Review
Some 15 years ago, the American political scientist Robert Axelrod put forward a remarkable model of the way cultural diversity persists in society. His idea was that people are more likely to interact with others like them. The ...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 1 week 4 days ago.
by Christopher Mims, Technology Review
The effort combines a variety of data-driven approaches. Data scientists at Yahoo are using prediction markets—along with polls, sentiment analysis on Twitter, and trends in search queries—to create the mother of...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 1 week 4 days ago.
* 4:50 pm - A federal judge has decided there will be no new trial for Bill Cellini.
A bit of background for those who’ve been living under a rock…Cellini was found guilty in November of attempting to extort money from a Hollywood producer f...
Posted by Illinois Issues blog 1 week 4 days ago.
By Jamey Dunn All four legislative leaders and Gov. Pat Quinn have said that pension reform is a priority in the upcoming legislative session, but their opinions differ on what would be best for the state and legal under the Illinois Constitution. Recent ...
Posted by Jeannette Eats Spaghetti 1 week 4 days ago.
There are so many great people who come through Food Fantasies, it's hard not to leave work with a smile on my face.
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 1 week 4 days ago.
If you are a home owner and you are still using the crappy disposable HVAC filters please stop. They are inefficient and expensive. For the price of 2 boxes of those filters you can buy a single washable filter that will save you a bunch of money on filte...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 1 week 4 days ago.
* The Chicago Tribune editorialized today in response to the Sun-Times announcement that it would no longer be endorsing political candidates…
Newspapers have a unique role as public citizen. They did in 1860 and they do today. It would be an abdica...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 1 week 4 days ago.
* If there’s any evidence of politicized actuarial assumptions at the pension systems, I think Rep. Brauer probably ought to be more specific. So far, this looks like a distraction to me…
State Rep. Rich Brauer, R-Springfield, is calling for t...
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