Tag: Illinois
Close call in Illinois’ third district should be a wake up...
Newman’s insurgent campaign should be a wake up call to both centrist and right-leaning Democrats.
Saving Illinois: Getting more bang for the state’s bucks
Illinois is teetering on bankruptcy and other states are not far behind, largely due to unfunded pension liabilities; but there are solutions.
From Selma to Springfield: Why we’re marching in Illinois
Our loved ones – past, present, and future – are always in this struggle with us. We march for all of them, and for all of us.
8 states that made 2016 a huge year for clean energy
These victories—many of them bipartisan—across the country give hope for 2017.
Illinois lawmakers introduce energy bill with controversial coal supports
“We need to think long and hard, this legislature, about why we need to rush ahead.”
In Illinois, New Rules Expected to Make Solar Faster and Cheaper
The rules come at a critical time for Illinois’ energy future.
Half of America’s Workforce has No Retirement Plan—But Illinois has a...
Economists see the Illinois Secure Choice Savings Program, designed for private-sector workers, as an innovative complement to Social Security.
Chicago’s Taxpayer-Funded Ode to Robber Barons
Even though George Pullman was a feudalistic 19th-century profiteer, he considered himself a beneficent employer as he suppressed the wages of his factory workers. In current times, is our tax money going to finance a monument for his greed?
Corrupt Congressman Resigns Amid Scandals
Will the Justice Department file charges against Rep. Aaron Schock of Illinois? The representative resigned from Congress this week to avoid an investigation into allegations of corruption.
Taking on ‘Mayor 1 Percent’
Reclaim Chicago is a campaign to put people’s candidates up against incumbent city council members who’ve been "tail-wagging lapdogs for Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s corporate rule." It's time a winning people’s movement makes a change in Chicago.
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.