If you need to register to vote or change your voting address, you have until midnight Tuesday to be eligible to vote in the March 20 Primary Election. You can do it at any Secretary of State’s office tomorrow until …
14th District State Representative candidate Paula Basta has released a Ten Point Ethics Reform Pledge to the voters of her district. Basta pledges to support allowing the recall of elected officials convicted of crimes or ethics violations. Place a cap on …
If you keep a close eye on Illinois politics, than you’ve certainly read Rich Miller’s Capitol Fax Blog. Miller’s blog is the daily bible for Illinois politicos. This week Miller set off a vigorous debate when he raised eyebrows about …
Andersonville State Representative Greg Harris today introduced House Bill 5170 in Springfield that would guarantee equal marriage rights for same sex couples. Harris is the primary sponsor of the legislation. Harris was the primary sponsor and the key legislator behind …
Sometimes you don’t know what — or who — you’ve got right under your nose here in Andersonville. For example, when most people go to the voting booth on March 20, they probably won’t realize that one of those …
Our friends over at the Edgeville Buzz broke this story this morning. Apparently the campaign of State Rep. Kelly Cassidy or her allies were caught doing a telephone survey testing whether voters would be more or less likely to vote against non-machine …
Tuesday was the deadline for candidates and officeholders to file their end of the year campaign finance reports and in what continues to look like one of the city’s most competitive races, challenger Paula Basta outraised appointed State Representative Kelly …
Some stories land with a bang producing cataclysmic changes. Andersonville’s top story for 2011 isn’t that type of change. It is one that every day is quietly and fundamentally causing silently profound changes. Civil Unions. It started on January …
Call it ‘The Threat’. Mayor Emanuel may have gotten a budget through city council, but getting a remap of wards is a vastly different story. As we’ve reported there are two competing maps for redistricting now. So along comes the …
A new Chicago redistricting map was filed with the Chicago City Clerk with 32 of the city’s aldermen signing on to the map. The new map competes with one submitted earlier this week by the Hispanic Caucus of aldermen. The …
According to a story in today’s Sun Times, negotiations over the remap of Chicago’s wards have broken down with the Hispanic coalition of aldermen filing their own redistricting map. The prospect for a massive fight and city referendum over the redistricting …
Some say it’s just another day in city council. But it must be time for redistricting when aldermen are nearly coming to blows with Alderman Carrie Austin almost beating the bejeezus out of Alderman Dick Mell over new ward maps. Our …
