Chicago Sun-Times Column: Kirk leads pack in ducking press coverage
LYNN SWEET

Last Monday, a group of Chicago reporters chased Illinois GOP Senate nominee Rep. Mark Kirk through a hotel kitchen. They never caught up with him after he left the stage at a public policy Senate forum sponsored by the Metropolitan Planning Council. He did not want to stop to take questions because most of them would probably have been about why he embellished his record as a Navy reserve officer.

Brady supports lowering state minimum wage to match feds

SPRINGFIELD — Republican governor candidate Sen. Bill Brady today said he supports lowering Illinois' minimum wage if he wins in November

SJ-R Opinion: Release of tax returns fosters public trust

THE STATE JOURNAL-REGISTER - Posted May 24, 2010 @ 11:34 PM
 

To put it mildly, Illinois’ last two governors did little to inspire public trust in the office of the state’s chief executive where money is concerned.

We would expect that anyone who desires to be governor in Illinois would be aware of this, and would do everything within reason to dispel any public suspicion of his or her financial affairs. The same would go for anyone running to be next in succession as governor. After all, we’ve now seen a lieutenant governor ascend to governor, and an office long considered to be irrelevant has become a factor in statewide elections.

That’s why we’re puzzled at Republican lieutenant governor candidate Jason Plummer’s staunch insistence that he will not release his income tax returns.

It's the law of the land: Health overhaul signed

By JENNIFER LOVEN
AP White House Correspondent

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Claiming a historic triumph that could define his presidency, a jubilant Barack Obama signed a massive, nearly $1 trillion health care overhaul on Tuesday that will for the first time cement insurance coverage as the right of every U.S. citizen and begin to reshape the way virtually all Americans receive and pay for treatment.

Rep. Kirk abandons his principles for right-wing rhetoric

I try hard not to hate. Hating is bad for your health. Plus, the holiday season has officially begun, so hating should be put off until at least after New Year's Day.

But I have to admit that I absolutely hate the infantile, ear-splitting, hyperpartisan politics that emanates from our nation's capital.

So, I probably should've known better when Republican Rep. Mark Kirk announced his bid for the U.S. Senate.

Supporters of Gitmo prisoners move call it the chance “of a lifetime”

A day before federal officials were to tour the Thomson Correctional Center, partisan battle lines were being drawn over the prospect of moving Guantanamo Bay prisoners to the northwestern Illinois village.

Obama's health win: 'Let's make history'

220-215, with 39 Democrats voting no, and one Republican voting yes.

220-215.

The first full vote on the health-care reform that President Barack Obama is demanding from Congress by year's end arrived late last night in the House.

 
Durbin advocates health care reform
Sunday, August 02, 2009 | 5:30 PM
  
August 2, 2009 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin was making a push Sunday for bipartisan support for health care reform.

Durbin: Grant would aid search for missing kids

Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin is joining more than a dozen colleagues pushing legislation to help an agency that searches for missing children.