Illinois: Darkness Before the Dawn
Dan Proft tells it as ugly as it is: “[T]he conspiracy to defraud taxpayers that is Illinois state government in its current form.” Word, baby. Great post from Dan. It doesn’t have to be this way. And...
View ArticleIllinois Will End up Like Detroit if It Does Not Change Course
Detroit was once the greatest city of the modern world. Automobiles were the cutting edge of technology in the first half of the twentieth century. Talent and genius flocked to Detroit. Innovators in...
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Illinois and the Perfect Democrat
I live in the River North district of Chicago, a vibrant area full of professionals, high rise buildings, and a large service economy. We are adjacent to the Loop (and many of the people who live here...
View ArticleApparently Illinois Vote Rigging Doesn’t Count… and a Glimmer of Hope From...
Recently I wrote about how the district I live in is perhaps the most gerrymandered district in the entire country. Great pains have been taken by the Democrats that run Illinois to ensure that my...
View ArticleNY Times Admits Illinois Gerrymandering
The NY Times today had an article called “Don’t Blame the Maps” which discusses the fact that, even though the Democrats won the popular vote, the Republicans still won the majority of votes in the...
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2014 Midwest Business & Markets Conference
cross-posted to zenpundit.com The Union League Club of Chicago Building Yesterday, I attended the 2014 Midwest Business & Markets Conference at the historic Union League Club of Chicago. While...
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Adding to Illinois’ Debacle
This billboard is in my River North neighborhood in Chicago. It is an advertisement for a mall and entertainment location in Rosemont, a small city near O’Hare airport. Rosemont was profiled by the...
View ArticleHope for Illinois?
My mother, who still lives in Rockford, Illinois, sent me a link today that was pretty surprising. It says that the Republican candidate for governor of Illinois, Bruce Rauner, has an actual shot at...
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Thank you to the Chicago Young Republicans
(That is me on the far right, where I belong!) My thanks to the Chicago Young Republicans, who invited me to speak to them last night at their monthly meeting. It was an enjoyable and educational...
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The Comeback: Illinois, A Great Future
Good post from Matt Besler of the Illinois Opportunity Project. Illinois has tremendous strengths. We are a state rich in agriculture, mineral resources and manufacturing. With road, rail and air,...
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Election Day
Election Day in California is pretty dull because California is a one party state with Democrats and their illegal alien voters running things. “We don’t need no stinkin’ voter IDs !” Elsewhere there...
View ArticleIllinois Government, Broadly Defined, Will Have A Major Crisis by 2017
The fact that the State of Illinois has dire fiscal problems is well documented. If you just type in headlines like “Illinois is broke” into your web browser and you can spend hours reading. One of the...
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Liberty Rising — In Illinois
Great post entitled Liberty Rising by Matt Besler of the Illinois Opportunity Project. Matt is talking about the newly elected reform-minded Republicans in Springfield, Illinois. They are currently a...
View ArticleRauner’s budget-Is any of this going to happen ?
An interesting take on the new Illinois governor’s shot across the bow. The Sun-Times doesn’t like it. If we thought Gov. Bruce Rauner’s first proposed state budget stood a chance of becoming reality,...
View ArticleMake Them Own It
Today we see that the latest bond offering from the Chicago Board of Education will be priced at over twice what a BBB offering demands. That is brutal. I still won’t touch that with a ten foot pole....
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“The Courage of a Reformer”
I recently had a guest post entitled The Courage of a Reformer at the blog of the Illinois Opportunity Project. My post was in responses to an earlier post by Matt Besler of IOP about Illinois State...
View ArticleIs Obama Our Punishment?
Obama was an unusual candidate for president in 2008. I had serious questions in 2008. One criticism of Obama is that his portfolio is mighty thin. He has no record. Well, he actually does and and here...
View ArticleThe other state without a budget
The Wall Street Journal has an excellent article (behind paywall) by Andrew Staub on the budget stalemate in Pennsylvania. While the overall fiscal situation is less dire than Illinois (lottery winners...
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My Pathetic Vote in Illinois Is Now the Hottest Ticket in Town
Due to the fact that I live in Illinois which has been carved into districts to ensure Democratic majorities, my vote is mostly useless or a protest vote at best. I wrote about gerrymandering here and...
View ArticleThe Federal Takeover of State Debt is About to Begin…
Often people focus on the “loud” items and miss the subtle, important events that really change the world. On the positive side, the 401(k) plan has that obscure name because a financial expert...
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