The King and his court

Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, has declared his latest bogus attempt at campaign finance reform as “squarely in the mainstream” of reform efforts nationwide.

Sadly, he’s probably right. With the U.S. Supreme Court seemingly on the verge of…

One way corruption creates jobs.

It’s a fine mess the Illinois legislature has gotten itself into. Its members have known since January that they had to fix a $12 billion budget deficit. But first they had to remove Gov. Rod Blagojevich from…

Gov. Pat Quinn

Last week, when Illinois’ second-most powerful state official proposed hiking income taxes by 50 percent to close an $11.6 billion budget deficit, we were heartened by the response of Illinois’ most powerful state official:

“I think Illinoisans want to…

Today is Rod Blagojevich’s 52nd birthday. It should be the last one he spends as governor of  Illinois.

He has betrayed the citizens of his state. He is not fit to hold public office. If he doesn’t have the good sense…

Earlier this year, the Illinois General Assembly passed a bill that would make it easier for college students to remain covered by their parents’ medical insurance policies if the kids are enrolled part-time or have to drop out because of…

Illinois state government runs on the buy-now/pay-later plan, and it’s been that way for decades. If a new public works program called “Illinois Works” is approved by the General Assembly, the state will buy $34 billion worth of infrastructure projects…

Like a bunch of kids playing hooky, Illinois legislators skipped out of the Capitol last week, thumbing their noses at the governor and the state’s citizens and casting responsibility to the wind.
Faced with a Saturday night adjournment deadline and the…