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PI Original
by Angela Caputo
3:26pm
Thu Oct 9, 2008

Poll Finds Majority Support For Con-Con

Constitutional Convention

UPDATE: Since posting these numbers, we've learned that they are an incomplete and misleading representation of what the poll found.  Please see our October 10 post to get the full story.

After alluding to the results last week, the Con-Con Yes
folks have released a ...

PI Original
by Adam Doster
1:18pm
Thu Oct 9, 2008
1 comment

Questioning The Value Of The Chicago Climate Exchange

Environment

In my July feature on the Chicago Climate Exchange -- a locally-based market in which participating companies trade voluntary greenhouse gas emission credits -- I noted the recurring criticism that its regulations are often too industry-friendly: These loose ...

PI Original
by Josh Kalven
12:23pm
Thu Oct 9, 2008
6 comments

What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Ayers?

Barack Obama

During a Chicago Public Radio discussion yesterday, Public Affairs host Jeff Berkowitz made the argument that Barack Obama's assocation with Bill Ayers "reflects bad judgment" and that John McCain should have broached the issue during the debate Tuesday night.  &quot...

PI Original
by Adam Doster
10:21am
Thu Oct 9, 2008
3 comments

What A Deregulated Health Care Market Would Look Like

Health Care

Conservative health care reformers love to bash state regulations.
In their estimation, differing regulations keep premiums artificially
high in some states by restricting consumer choice. John McCain has
railed against these regulations on the stump and in Tuesday's debate...

PI Original
by Angela Caputo
10:12am
Thu Oct 9, 2008
1 comment

Fund Sweeps Still In Limbo

State Legislature

Last month, the House and Senate signed off on two key budget bills 
allowing state finance officials to sweep earmarked funds to cover $220
million worth of budget cuts.  While the package was intended to restore
funding to social service agencies, state parks and ...

PI Original
by Josh Kalven
5:52pm
Wed Oct 8, 2008

Even The Racists Are Undecided

White House '08

FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver flagged this little anecdote relayed by Politico's Ben Smith earlier in the week:

An Obama supporter, who canvassed for the candidate in the working-class, white Philadelphia neighborhood of Fishtown recently, sends over an account that, ...

PI Original
by Adam Doster
4:49pm
Wed Oct 8, 2008
1 comment

HCAN To Attack Ozinga On Health Care (UPDATED)

Health Care

Marty Ozinga really should have watched his words back in July.
Opponents of the 11th District GOP congressional candidate have jumped all
over a cable access interview we originally flagged
in which the concrete magnate opined that "very few people nowadays
that ...

PI Original
by Josh Kalven
3:07pm
Wed Oct 8, 2008
50 comments

Cook County Sheriff Puts Brakes On Evictions

Tom Dart

Tired of seeing innocent renters caught in the middle of the foreclosure crisis, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart is putting the breaks on evictions unless lenders can provide evidence that officers are being sent to toss the right people from their homes. Dart is ...

PI Original
by Angela Caputo
12:09pm
Wed Oct 8, 2008
3 comments

Former Cicero Mayor Pops Up In McCain's Pilsen "Documentary"

Immigration

After viewing a recent McCain campaign YouTube video, an
unsuspecting viewer might walk away thinking Chicago's two biggest
Latino neighborhoods  -- Pilsen and Little Village -- are hotbeds of anti-Obama sentiment.  The
six-minute "documentary," titled "...