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Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 1 week 2 days ago.
* Imagine, if you will, the horrific anguish that the parents of this 14 year-old boy (named “N.B.” in this story) are going through…
N.B. has been placed in a psychiatric hospital 14 times, where he stays an average of three weeks. N.B....
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 1 week 2 days ago.
* This is good news…
IMPORTANT NOTICE
STRATTON TUNNEL OPEN
TO: ALL USERS OF THE STRATTON TUNNEL
FROM: J. Richard Alsop, III, AIA
Architect of the Capitol
DATE: January 30, 2012
RE: Notice of Opening of Stratton Tunnel
Effective immediately, the Stra...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 1 week 2 days ago.
* This is good news…
IMPORTANT NOTICE
STRATTON TUNNEL OPEN
TO: ALL USERS OF THE STRATTON TUNNEL
FROM: J. Richard Alsop, III, AIA
Architect of the Capitol
DATE: January 30, 2012
RE: Notice of Opening of Stratton Tunnel
Effective immediately, the Stra...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 1 week 2 days ago.
* This story has not been getting the attention it deserves, mainly because the Civic Federation released its study late Sunday night…
Illinois’ unpaid bills may more than triple to $34.8 billion by 2017 unless lawmakers and Democratic Governor Pa...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 1 week 2 days ago.
* This story has not been getting the attention it deserves, mainly because the Civic Federation released its study late Sunday night…
Illinois’ unpaid bills may more than triple to $34.8 billion by 2017 unless lawmakers and Democratic Governor Pa...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 1 week 2 days ago.
* This story has not been getting the attention it deserves, mainly because the Civic Federation released its study late Sunday night…
Illinois’ unpaid bills may more than triple to $34.8 billion by 2017 unless lawmakers and Democratic Governor Pa...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 1 week 3 days ago.
* While you’re reading my latest Sun-Times column, you should probably listen to the song the column is built around: Todd Snider’s “Age Like Wine”…* And here’s the Sun-Times column…
“Old timer, old timer, ...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 1 week 3 days ago.
* My weekly syndicated newspaper column…
Last week, powerful Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan appeared to all but endorse an idea to force downstate and suburban school districts to pay a significant share of their state pension contributions....
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 1 week 4 days ago.
* Crain’s…
State Sen. A.J. Wilhelmi has been tapped for a senior leadership post at the Illinois Hospital Association, the powerful lobbying organization that represents 200 hospitals, sources have told Crain’s.
Mr. Wilhelmi replaces How...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 1 week 5 days ago.
* The Daily Herald just ran a statement from Sen. Mark Kirk’s neurosurgeon…
“Senator Kirk is doing quite well this morning. He is alert, responding more rapidly to questions and the swelling in his brain has stabilized. While he remains in s...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 1 week 5 days ago.
* Umm, no…* From the bill in question…
Provides that if an Internet dating service does not conduct criminal background screenings on its members, the service shall disclose, clearly and conspicuously, to all Illinois members that the Internet...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 1 week 5 days ago.
* I thought I read somewhere that the governors of New Jersey and Wisconsin were making huge strides toward improving their states’ business climates And didn’t I also read somewhere that those two governors were courting Illinois companies ...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 1 week 5 days ago.
* Gov. Pat Quinn sent out a press release late yesterday to announce that he was heeding President Barack Obama’s call to raise the school drop-out age to 18…
Gov. Pat Quinn today announced his support for raising the minimum attendance age of...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 1 week 5 days ago.
* Gov. Pat Quinn sent out a press release late yesterday to announce that he was heeding President Barack Obama’s call to raise the school drop-out age to 18…
Gov. Pat Quinn today announced his support for raising the minimum attendance age of...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 1 week 6 days ago.
* This is just a huge loss for Illinois…
Chris Britt, editorial cartoonist for the State Journal-Register, has been fired.
Britt was let go this morning.
“I was just informed,” Britt said.
Britt, who began his career as an editorial cartoonist i...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 1 week 6 days ago.
* Sen. Mark Kirk underwent a second surgery last night. From the Sun-Times…
Dr. Richard Fessler said doctors at Northwestern Memorial Hospital removed two small pieces of brain tissue that were destroyed by the stroke.
Fessler said Wednesday’s su...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 1 week 6 days ago.
* I told subscribers about this last week…
Ty Fahner, the head of the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club, over the holidays quietly put together a big-bucks political action committee that raised $142,750 in its first week of operation and likel...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 1 week 6 days ago.
* Yesterday’s Sun-Times story about House Speaker Michael Madigan’s speech to Elgin College included this graf…
Madigan refused to answer questions about any role he may have had in four judicial candidates — including slated sitting J...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 1 week 6 days ago.
* I had been keeping this saga behind the subscriber firewall, but the AP picked up on Rep. Rosemary Mulligan’s retirement announcement, so we might as well discuss it in the open. Here’s the AP story…
Mulligan’s decision came aft...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 2 weeks 17 hours ago.
* Democratic congressional candidate Tammy Duckworth has released a poll showing her with a commanding 59-17 lead over her primary opponent, Raja Krishnamoorthi. From the pollster…Duckworth enjoys 83% name identification with 67% of the electorate ...
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