Recent content by UncleBob

Was it this thread someone was tooting the horn of Madigan? https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-comed-madigan-investigation-fine-20200717-y6w2givqzrcyvafyjny7fjw434-story.html On the subject of budgets though... an update from the land of Lincoln...

As related to anything else posted in this thread, we spoke of the governors of Illinois earlier... Four days ago, the governor of Illinois put the lives of poll workers and voters, two categories that skew toward an older demographic, at risk by refusing to postpone the primary election...

For me, because he's one of very few candidates willing to reign in military spending I like that.

I wonder if anyone is watching the Illinois Governor's race. It's an epic shitstorm. A billionaire running against a millionaire to take a job that pays less than $200k/year running a broke-ass state. And the Democratic candidate did the same thing Trump did, downplaying the value of his...

http://www.bnd.com/opinion/editorials/article174796016.html http://www.politifact.com/illinois/statements/2017/sep/20/bruce-rauner/rauners-right-illinois-budget-balancing-act-ongoin/...

Did you read the article you linked? It even stated the guy is apparently not a kid.

Yup. When they were supposed to be temporary increases to fix the state's problems. That worked well. Rauner's failed leadership was just the second-in-command taking control of a ship that was already sinking when the captain died, then sitting on his hands and watching it sink. At this...

Yay more tax increases for Illinois - but no notable efforts to reign in spending of any kind. That worked out really well the last time we did it. This thread will be interesting in four years (Hint, it won't take four years).

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kass/ct-dissolving-illinois-kass-met-20170620-column.html pretty bad when the Chicago Tribune suggests just killing the state altogether.

I think it's time to break up the state. :/ Madigan has no business being reelected (but will be) and Rauner can't be shown the door fast enough.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/10/illinois-debt-deficit-budget-election-239384?cmpid=sf

http://economy.money.cnn.com/2012/10/10/california-texas-richard-fisher/ I giggled.

Ah, it looks like the task force *has* done *something* along the way. The article talks about how the state wouldn't release PII to news outlets (I wonder where HIPPA plays into this), then goes on to talk about how researchers apparently got *some* data, but that the data collection process...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pregnancy-related-deaths-are-inexcusably-high-in-the-us_us_57b601d8e4b0b51733a20d56 I really like in the ABC news article, the only proposal called out speciffically was: Extending a task for that was established four years ago, that... ...has literally had...

Not quite... And to that I say... good. I feel this isn't how she intended it, but Merkel really sounds like that 26 year old who is being told they have to either move out or get a job and start paying rent. You mean an entire continent of people can no longer rely on a country on the other...