Illinois lawmakers have been meeting and filing bills since early January, but the time you really need to be paying attention is now. And how you pay attention is also important. The state’s regular legislative session is scheduled to end by midnight May 31 each year, and lawmakers, like most humans, seem always to leave Read More …
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Series lets candidates for governor introduce themselves
For a state whose many problems often appear all but unsolvable, Illinois certainly has no shortage of people willing to take on the challenge. Eight men and one woman already have announced they want to be the state’s next governor, with a week and half still to go before they can even file petitions. They Read More …
Why, even in an age of negativity, kids can have reason to be hopeful
If you were to ask some of the suburbs’ most politically engaged young people to describe the state of Illinois in a single word, what do you suppose it would be? I attended a program Wednesday at Ela Area Public Library in Lake Zurich at which individual groups from about 30 such high school students Read More …