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…
See the end of this article for October 29 updates. The General Assembly is in the middle of their Fall Veto Session, and it’s widely understood that one of items on the to-do list is a transit bill, with whatever…
Even though the decisions made by the administration and school board at Township High School District 214 are, by definition, not state legislative issues, I am raising this issue because there is a significant overlap between D214 and State House…
It’s October. Walk around the neighborhood and you’ll see an ever-growing number of Halloween displays with tombstones, spider webs, ghosts, and a Frankenstein’s monster or two. Click to your favorite streaming service and you’ll see as featured options, horror flicks…
In the movie Jerry Maguire, Cuba Gooding Jr.’s character uttered the iconic catchphrase, “show me the money!” — and that appears to be the approach being taken by the Bears’ consultants in their newly-released economic impact report on the proposed…
First of all, I offer my condolences – not just to Charlie Kirk’s family but also to the many people from our neighboring area who felt a special kinship with him because of his Arlington Heights/Prospect Heights/Wheeling High School childhood.…
Arlington Heights resident Elizabeth Bauer has begun the process of circulating petitions for the Republican nomination for the Illinois State House of Representatives for District 53, which encompasses portions of Arlington Heights, Rolling Meadows, Mount Prospect, Des Plaines, Palatine, and…
