Sending a message on Feb. 2

This election allows voters to start purging Blagojevich’s rank influence on our state.

01/20/2010

The primary scheduled for Feb. 2 is the first election in Illinois since federal prosecutors indicted Rod Blagojevich. With few apparently casting their ballots in early voting, the smart money is betting that the incompetent incumbents will slip into yet another term in office.
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Preckwinkle for county president

Endorsement

01/13/2010

When it comes to the gargantuan and ungainly Cook County government, we're at the precipice. Re-elect the incumbents, like President Todd Stroger, and then just shut the hell up. You'd be abdicating all responsibility for this $3 billion monstrosity of inside dealing and failed service to our community's most needy members.
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Welcoming 2010 with a noble spirit

12/30/2009

I am delighted to share the following beautiful holiday season “feel-good” experience, which happened to me in my neighborhood (Diversey Parkway) Starbucks café.
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The Cook County wars

Stroger can’t wield the bully pulpit like other politicians and he can’t browbeat commissioners into sticking with him.

12/16/2009

When it comes down to voting patterns, Chicago aldermen are easily dominated by Mayor Richard Daley, who has ensured the city council serves as a rubber stamp of his policies.
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Where the action is

Ald. Toni Preckwinkle (4th) now has a real chance to defeat unpopular incumbent Stroger, Clerk Brown and water district president Terry O'Brien.

11/18/2009

Cook County is a backwater of government - historically a sleepy place whose machinations didn't inspire the level of scrutiny state government or Chicago's city council routinely got. County does run the court system, the jail, Cook County hospitals and the Forest Preserves.
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Big errors in bike messenger story

08/26/2009

While encouraged your publication shows interest in our industry and the important role of the bike messenger to the business community (“Messengers bike through change,” Aug. 6), we are troubled by the incomplete efforts of the reporters in gathering and confirming information. Read more...

Check the dirt

05/20/2009

Protect Our Parks, the dedicated community advocacy group, chided the Chicago Park District for not exercising the same concern for public safety and the environment as displayed by Waukegan, its neighbor to the north. Read more...

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