If you thought the $8 billion dollar investment
needed to realize the Midwest Regional Rail Initiative was
shocking, you probably aren't that familiar with the scope of our
nation’s transit infrastructure needs. Thankfully, a new report
by the Center for Transit ...
The Washington Post's Ben Pershing talks to Democratic pollster Cornell Belcher about the effect of the financial crisis on his down-ballot findings. Belcher points to his surveys in Illinois' 6th and 13th congressional districts as evidence that support for incumbent ...
With Illinois' budget stretched and the outlook for the national economy looking bleaker
by the day, state leaders are seeking areas where we can cut back. But despite its size (5.2 percent of general fund
expenditures in 2007), Illinois lawmakers and voters often ...
On Friday's week-in-review edition of WTTW's Chicago Tonight, the panel discussion at one point turned to the controversy surrounding ACORN's voter registration drives in certain swing states. When asked by host Joel Weisman to lay out the "vote fraud charges," ...
The latest ABC News/Washington Post poll found that a supermajority of respondents did not think Barack Obama's ties to Bill Ayers represent a "legitimate issue":
Skepticism about the Ayers issue was one of the factors cited by Colin Powell in his ...
It's no secret that America's recession is deepening. Paul Krugman painted a grim picture
in his must-read op-ed on Friday. He noted retail sales and
industrial production are tanking and the Philadelphia Fed’s
manufacturing index is dropping quicker than at any time in ...
When it comes to finding reasons to support offshore drilling, GOP Rep. Mark Kirk's guiding principle seems to be: say anything. For instance, on Fox Chicago Sunday today, Kirk tried to pass off the recent drop in gas prices as partly the result of the decision by Congress ...
