via Chicago Tribune “It’s Thursday, Feb. 4, and the Democratic candidates for Cook County state’s attorney are scheduled to appear at a forum, and you can watch it live on the Web. State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez and challengers Kim Foxx…
Read Morevia Chicago Tribune “Money is gushing into New Hampshire as presidential candidates see the first in the nation primary as a make-or-break moment for their campaigns. About $100 million has already been poured into broadcast and cable television ads courting…
Read Morevia International Business Times “Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter spoke out Wednesday about the 2016 presidential campaign, calling out Republican front-runner Donald Trump by name and blaming a Supreme Court decision for letting ‘legal bribery’ corrupt the campaign finance system….
Read Morevia Chicago Sun-Times “Lightfoot is savvy, a skilled lawyer, an African-American, a former assistant U.S. attorney who could work with the feds, and there is no regulation Chicago’s police superintendent has to be a cop,” a top cop source said. “Lightfoot…
Read Morevia Chicago Tribune One day after the Chicago Teachers Union rejected a contract proposal from Chicago Public Schools, district officials said they would slash school budgets and stop paying the bulk of teachers’ pension contributions — moves CTU’s president quickly blasted…
Read Morevia Penn Live “So if you’ve been paying attention to politics for the last couple of years, you’ve probably seen television commercials or online advertisements, sponsored by seemingly innocuously named groups, advocating on behalf of this or that issue. For instance,…
Read MoreThe votes for Bernie Sanders and Hilary Clinton were neck-and-neck, but Hilary Clinton came out in the lead with 50.77% of the ICPR vote, and Bernie Sanders in second with 46.15%. As you may have read, the Caucus results were…
Read Morevia WSIL TV “CARBONDALE — On the day Iowans cast the first votes in the 2016 race for the White House, an SIU political expert is predicting when the Illinois Primary rolls around in six weeks the votes will actually…
Read Morevia NPR “Donald Trump thought he could upend Iowa caucus traditions. The gamble didn’t pay off. Hillary Clinton hoped she could wipe away her campaign nightmares of eight years ago by posting a solid win over an insurgent Bernie Sanders….
Read MoreICPR Board Chair Susan Garrett is quoted in this article via My Web Times “A state agency is seeking former state Rep. Frank Mautino’s ‘clarification’ on the more than $250,000 he paid to a Spring Valley bank since 1999. Mautino,…
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