The news last Monday night was shocking: a young woman was set on fire on the Blue Line, in the Loop, by a man who poured a liquid onto her head and ignited it. The report the next day was…
This blog post is what I’ll ambitiously call the “first of a series” — because I want to demonstrate that we can, and must, move past the old, stale answers that demand government spending as the solution to every problem…
A week ago, Friday, in the wee hours of the morning after the last day of the Veto Session, the Illinois State Senate passed a bill that, if signed by Gov. Pritzker, would legalize assisted suicide. At this point, Pritzker…
As a reminder: The transit bill passed in the middle of the night. The bill’s text was released at 11:02pm, mere hours before the bill was voted on, with revenue provisions and other changes nowhere to be found in prior…
Last Thursday night — or, rather, in the early hours of Friday morning, Illinois ended its veto session by passing three controversial bills: HB1312, the “super-sanctuary state” immigration bill, was passed in the Senate at about 10:30 PM and the…
