From the Chicago Tribune By John Byrne, Tribune reporter A group of Catholic nuns will make an appearance in Chicago today as part of their voter registration bus tour. The Nuns on the Bus will meet with Gov. Pat…
Read MoreVia Huffington Post New York In New York City, candidates for city offices who voluntarily choose to participate in that city’s public funding system receive $6 in public funds for each $1 received in small donations (up to a limit…
Read MoreVia the American Journalism Review In the new multimedia world journalists inhabit, Fernando Diaz, the managing editor of Hoy, Chicago’s Spanish-language daily, is placing his bets on computer codes. His last two hires were both developers: Nick Bennett, who…
Read MoreVia the Washington Times If the Illinois Teachers Retirement Service (TRS) had to pay out all of its pensionstoday, it could only afford to give its members 40 cents on the dollar. Yet the number of six-figure pensions TRS has been doling out has increased…
Read MoreVia Lake County News-Sun Something evil is lurking in Illinois government. It’s not corruption and deliberate malfeasance, though there certainly is enough of that. This is more mundane. It’s your debt. We prefer to ignore bad realities and pretend they…
Read MoreVia herald-review.com CHICAGO (AP) — If it seems as though the number of political ads on television has ramped up markedly this election, now there’s concrete proof. Fueled by a neck-and-neck contest for governor including a wealthy Republican candidate with…
Read MoreVia The Baltimore Sun I agree that Montgomery County’s campaign finance reform bill is a step in the right direction (“An alternative to fat-cat politics,” Sept. 22). In recent years, big-money donations have corrupted our elections and therefore made our political…
Read MoreVia Oakpark.com Anan Abu-Taleb I was privileged to be a panelist at a forum on small-donor democracy on Sept. 18, hosted by the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform (ICPR) at DePaul University. This was a natural follow-up to our community forum…
Read MoreVia Sunlight Foundation With control of the Senate in doubt and Republicans likely to hold on to their majority in the House, liberal power brokers are ramping up their electoral giving. Left-leaning billionaires continue to top the list of the…
Read MoreVia Daily Herald Two years ago, voters in the 52nd House District were in the middle of a full-scale political ad bombardment. Vying for the office was David McSweeney, an investment banker from Barrington Hills, fresh off an expensive three-way…
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