Posted by Barton Lorimor
Rich should be back next week to do the name “Capitol Fax” justice. In the meantime, thank you for the e-mails, the comments and just generally putting up with me this week.
I hope you all have a great and safe holiday weekend. I am headed home (Carlock, Ill., which is also [...]
Posted by Barton Lorimor
This story has been everywhere. I think it’s time the CapFax commenters take a crack at it…
Reputed gang members are the latest to come out against top Chicago police and federal prosecutors’ so-called “gang summit” strategy to curb gang violence in the nation’s third-largest city.
Chicago police Superintendent Jody Weis is facing mounting [...]
* We interrupt this vacation to once again bring you our exclusive advanced copy of WBEZ’s new weekly series “The Best Game in Town.” From the producer…
WBEZ’s Rob Wildeboer on the politics of violence.
And a roundtable discussion featuring:
Eric Zorn, Chicago Tribune
Kitty Kurth, Democratic Strategist
Chris Robling, Republican Analyst
Topics: Gangs/Weis, Brady’s budget plan and Obama dissatisfaction
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Posted by Barton Lorimor
From Greg Hinz…
Gov. Pat Quinn has launched a major behind-the-scenes effort to revive long-grounded plans to build a third metropolitan Chicago airport in far south suburban Peotone.
In recent weeks, both the governor’s budget director, David Vaught, and his operations chief, Jack Lavin, have held meetings at the Thompson Center in downtown Chicago [...]
Posted by Barton Lorimor
***UPDATE 1x (1:15 p.m.) ***
That didn’t take long…
Quinn named Gladyse Taylor, a ranking official in the Department of Corrections, as acting director of the agency. She had been named acting assistant director in May and previously served as deputy director of the governor’s budget office. […]
A Chicago native, Taylor said in a [...]
Posted by Barton Lorimor
A poll of 600 likely voters conducted by the Tribune and WGN resulted in a tie between Alexi Giannoulias and Mark Kirk, but the same survey showed a high amount of indecisiveness…
The softness in support opens the door for third-party candidates to play a spoiler role in the close contest. LeAlan Jones, [...]
* Unemployment rate climbs to 9.6%
Overall, the American economy lost 54,000 net jobs in August, as another 114,000 temporary Census workers were dismissed from the federal government’s payrolls.
Aside from the staffing changes at the Census Bureau, which has been trimming jobs added earlier in the year for the decennial population count, private-sector employers added a [...]
Posted by Barton Lorimor
The same afternoon Jan Schakowsky was endorsing Forrest Claypool for Cook County Assesor, her campaign manager was at a fundraiser for her challenger, Joel Pollak, and U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan in Skokie.
A witness dropped me an e-mail earlier today and said Schakowsky campaign manager Alex Armour showed up with a group at [...]
Posted by Barton Lorimor
I have to run to class in the next few minutes and will be there most of the afternoon. In my absence, I thought you might want to discuss this…
Is the tea party the new Republican Party?
The grass-roots network of fed-up conservative-libertarian voters displayed its power in its biggest triumph of the [...]
Posted by Barton Lorimor
I held off posting this yesterday hoping there would be more to post. But since that did not really happen, here’s the latest development in the state’s effort to privatize the lottery…
Odds are growing that a lucrative contract to manage the Illinois Lottery is heading toward a formal protest, adding more drama [...]
