Progress Illinois

Another day, another news report on the Employee Free Choice Act that fails to challenge the assertion that the congressional legislation would "remove an employee's right to a secret ballot."  This one came from Fox Chicago's Jeff Goldblatt and aired on Sunday night...

That's the number of statehouse reporters left in Springfield, according to Paul Starr's recent New Republic treatise on the future of the newspaper industry: 

In the annals of corruption, Illinois has lately been giving New Jersey
some tough competition, but, ...

Last week, Hill reporter Reid Wilson wrote that Rep. Peter Roskam “come[s] from a more centrist wing of the party,” a notion we quickly rebuked. Yesterday, a different Hill staff writer, J. Taylor Rushing, used literally the same language in an article on Roland Burris...

Over the weekend, Paul Krugman penned
a column on the proposed $825 billion stimulus bill in
which he noted that “many of the plan’s opponents aren’t arguing in
good faith,” adding that "they are reaching for any stick they can find with which to beat proposals for ...