Tuesday, February 18, 2014

If most people only pay attention to the final month of a campaign cycle, what has been the point of the past year?

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The reality of an election cycle – one that is astounding to politically-motivated people – is that real people only begin to pay attention ...
Monday, February 17, 2014

Putting legal process on trial? ‘Hurry up and wait’ takes longer these days

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It has been more than a couple of decades since I regularly hung around courthouses in my reporter-type person duties. Yet the general rul...
Saturday, February 15, 2014

What does it mean that a teachers’ union (allegedly) likes Dillard?

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DILLARD: Do teachers really like him? “Yawn!!!” That’s about all the reaction I can generate from the word that the Illinois Educat...
Friday, February 14, 2014

EXTRA: 85 years since 'massacre,' yet I just want to watch Marilyn Monroe

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It has been 85 years since the violent outburst in a garage at 2121 N. Clark St. that we now think of as the St. Valentine’s Day massacre. Y...

Can we really reform redistricting? Is the ‘human’ element just too strong?

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I always get a giggle whenever I log onto my e-mail accounts and see a prominent name as having “sent” me a message. EDGAR: Pleading...
Thursday, February 13, 2014

It's all about the name recognition

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The Chicago Tribune gave us its traditional polls every campaign season, giving us as thorough an understanding of where the major campaigns...
Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Madigan backing Smith to be expected. I'm more upset by lack of a federal trial

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I remember once having an Illinois House of Representatives of the Democratic persuasion try to dispute the notion that all of the House D...