What is it? I don’t know, but it is pretty damn amusing to try and figure out.
Illinois, From the Colder Prairie Now
What is it? I don’t know, but it is pretty damn amusing to try and figure out.
The Illinois Leader offers excruciating detail for Blagojevich leaving the Capitol. That’s keeping the eye on the ball!
Carl Officer has opened his administration calling for two investigations. The first was one to look into the circumstances of a city officials recent death which seems a bit strange. The second is to investigate East Saint Louis’ grant making offices including Tax Increment Financing and Community Development Block Grant funds for potential improprieties. (nervous […]
Two articles up at the Political State Report
For many years Betty Loren-Maltese was the crooked circus clown of Cicero politics with the huge red hair and painted face. It has taken prison to make her look like a normal human being: The Sun-Times covers her time in prison and she has made the requisite efforts to claim a jail house conversion. Of […]
The Tribune reports that the special prosecutors investigating torture under former Chicago Police Commander John Burge. Moreover, they have gathered 130,000 documents–a total of more than 1 million sheets of paper, they said–that chronicle the controversial legacy of one of Chicago’s most enduring police scandals. A grand jury in the case has issued subpoenas, Egan […]
Eric Zorn points out that near the end of the Jim Ryan for Governor campaign, Ryan name confusion was at 3 % and dropping meaning the name wasn’t the problem. The problem was the worst campaign in a long time and that Jim Ryan did nothing to make himself a strong choice for voters. The […]
Not Amiel, the convict, but his brother Lloyd was appointed to the Courts Commission that oversees judicial behavior. Dandy.
Really and he goes on to wonder why a subpeona hasn’t been served. Perle is a leading intellectual, and one of the main architects of the war to oust Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq. And for the record, I agreed with him on that, and still do, and the only regret I have about […]
Washington Park can’t pay the employees of the town.
The Post-Dispatch mildly slaps the hand of the SLMPD and Joe Mokwa this morning. The editorial is far too mild. The SLMPD appears to be heavy-handed and incompetent. Not a reassuring combination for those who depend upon them. In describing the Flying Rutebega Circus arrests, The Post-Dispatch states, Its members describe themselves as a "rag-tag […]
Christie Todd Whitman turned in her resignation today putting the Bush administration on the spot to find a decent EPA Administrator that will placate the base and suburban swing voters. The interesting part of the story appears to be the quick nature of it and one has to wonder whether she is leaving over a […]
Wyeth points us to the US Hous providing Michelin with a big ‘ole contract to supply the Marines. Heh. Oh and read down his blog and notice Democrat Obstruction Day. Indeed.
We can officially code Iraq as not having a shall issue law for concealed carry permits. The New York Times reports that only approved security guards will be able to carry outside the home and then the weapons cannot be concealed. Indeed. Now, we can assume much of the heavy weaponry came from the armed […]
Rich Miller adds to the humor by pointing out the Great Abraham Lincoln was a quorum breaker too, LINCOLN BROKE A QUORUM Back in 1839, the Illinois House was meeting in special session and hatched a plan to vote on a Democratic bill to require the state’s central bank to make payments in gold or […]