Legislature's decisions have local impact

05/16/2012

The last weeks of the state legislative session hold dire consequences for our neighborhoods. As usual, more decisions are being made in backroom deals than by meaningful debate and votes in public. Legislative decisions that will affect us include university budgets, pensions, and Medicaid cutbacks in addition to shredding the social safety net, closing mental health facilities, cutting funding for the homeless and shutting prisons.
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Voters support Rahm for now

04/18/2012

Mayor Rahm Emanuel has support of at least 57 percent of residents as of the latest poll by the University of Illinois at Chicago. Most citizens are also satisfied with city services, including the police department despite the rise in the murder rate. They are, unsurprisingly, dissatisfied with the public schools and support the proposed longer school day as a possible remedy.
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Derrick Smith endorsement retracted, Tom Swiss endorsed for state rep

03/19/2012


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Endorsement: Danny Davis for Congress

03/07/2012

When the politics are as similar as Danny Davis and Jacques Conway — the two candidates in the Democratic primary for the 7th District congressional seat — we opt to support the incumbent. Seniority and clout are hard to come by and Danny Davis has earned both.
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Endorsement: Christian Mitchell for state rep

03/07/2012

The race for the 26th District seat in the Illinois House is perhaps the tightest in the state. That’s not without reason: Christian Mitchell and Kenny Johnson are two of the best candidates we’ve seen angling for the statehouse this election season.
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Endorsement: Derrick Smith for state rep

03/07/2012

When Annazette Collins decamped her 10th District State Rep seat for the senate, it was filled last year by Derrick Smith, an acolyte of Jesse White and 27th Ward Ald. Walter Burnett who used to run the ward’s streets and sanitation department.
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Endorsement: Patricia Van Pelt-Watkins for state senate

03/07/2012

The first race to replace Rickey Hendon that voters will actually have a say in is a bit of a mess. Annazette Collins was appointed to Hendon’s seat last spring when he abruptly vacated it, but her patron saints have since abandoned her.
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Changing our corrupt city's course

02/15/2012

For many years, Chicago has been known as the most segregated city in North America. It is a source of shame. For just as many years, but more intently since the colorful Blagojevich trials, we have also been known the most corrupt city. Now based on a study by political scientists from the University of Illinois at Chicago, we have the statistics to confirm our dishonorable and notorious reputation.
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Skip a sonnet and go for a bonnet

Heart of the 'hood

02/01/2012

Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, and once again stealing my heart with one of her unique and beautiful hats is milliner Sonia Caceres. I love checking in with Caceres to see what’s new, because her one-of-a-kind headgear is always brimming with amazing creativity. Caceres’s latest creation is an original-design, Valentine red wool hat, inspired by the flirty fashion of a roaring ’20s flapper girl.
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Judges for sale in Cook County

01/18/2012

Hey bud, would you like to buy a judge? Judges in Illinois can be bought by cash or votes. The Central Committee of the Democratic Party of Cook County buys judges with the promise of votes, naming them to the party’s official slate in exchange for implicit support.
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