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Posts in category "Chicago politics"

Pat Fitzgerald for Illinois governor. Or Chicago mayor.

Patrick Fitzgerald, U.S. attorney for Northern Illinois, blazed a trail right into the slammer for an entire catalogue of the state’s politically corrupt. Now that he is retiring after an unprecedented (for Illinois) decade of integrity, he said at a press conference on Thursday that he would like to remain in public service of some... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
Friday at 11:01 am
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The goofy Sarah Palin sculpture reminds me of Harold Washington in women's undies

Conservatives are riled over an ugly sculpture of Sarah Palin, now on exhibit at the Bridgeport Art Center. The sculpture, which has been on tour, features a gapping, yawling mouth in which a pig can be roasted. Conservatives also have been riled about the nude (full frontal) painting of  of Palin in the Old Town Ale... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
April 29, 2012 at 4:50 pm
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Personal PAC, Fred Eychaner and big money bought an Illinois supreme court justice victory

Last minute personal smears by radical pro-choice group funded by big money contributions and backed by Rahm Emanuel’s Democratic machine carries the day for Illinois Supreme Court justice. Never heard of Fred Eychaner? Then you need to read this post in With Both Hands, a blog by a genuine Chicagoan, Pat Hickey. Eychaner is the Daddy Warbucks... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
March 21, 2012 at 12:21 pm
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Obama carries on Chicago lakefront liberal tradition

The impression in some quarters — usually outside of Chicago — is that President Barack Obama has infected the White House with The Chicago Way of governing. Not quite. He was elected The Chicago Way. But he is governing the Chicago Lakefront Liberal Way. By doing so, he has answered the question that many Chicagoans never wanted to contemplate... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
March 6, 2012 at 12:54 pm
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The Chicago school system was not designed for the benefit of the kids.

That’s not me, a white suburbanite, saying it. That’s Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (about 4:24 into the video). “A Tale of Two Missions,” with Juan Williams, lays it on the line. It’s a school sysystem weighed down by federal and state mandates, union demands and a fat, unresponsive bureaucracy. It’s worth a watch... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
February 28, 2012 at 12:40 pm
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Ex-City Colleges Chief owed $500,000 in Unused Sick Pay

By Patrick Rehkamp/BGA, with the Chicago News Co-op  For Wayne Watson, it sure paid to stay healthy. By the time Watson left his job as chancellor of City Colleges of Chicago in 2009, he had accrued around 500 unused sick days over his three-decade career with the community college system. While many public and private... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
January 26, 2012 at 12:00 pm
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Chicago's goofy and false 'anti-torture' ordinance

Pat Hickey slices and dices the torture ban passed unanimously (who can be for torture?) by the City Council–supposedly the first such action by any American city, and doesn’t that make us proud.  Makes as much sense as the nuclear-free-zone ordinance. To those pushing such “symbolic” gestures, I hope it makes you feel better. It... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
January 25, 2012 at 1:06 pm
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Mike Madigan Speaks!

A politician speaking certainly shouldn’t be news. But it is in the case of House Speaker Michael Madigan, Illinois’ political potentate who acts as if we’re all too stupid to know how state government should be run. Usually he has nothing to say in public about anything, in response to media questions. So, it’s news... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
January 25, 2012 at 11:58 am
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Valerie Jarrett is the worst White House aide

Her perfect record . . . for giving bad advice. This a must read for Chicagoans. Matthew Continetti  in the Weekly Standard asks the question: What does President Barack Obama’s shadowy advisor, Valerie Jarrett, do to earn her the $172,200 that taxpayers give her every year. The answer is: everything and nothing good. According to Continetti... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
January 15, 2012 at 2:36 pm
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Chicago protesters, get a grip

Chicago’s aging hippy, dippy yippies and their spawn have a legitimate point in their opposition to Mayor Rahm Emanuel‘s crackdown on potentially violent public protests. By anticipating such conduct at May’s G-8 and NATO summits here, do the new proposed rules infringe on the constitutional right of free assembly? Marilyn Katz, an anti-war activist in... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
January 10, 2012 at 8:48 am
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