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Just days after Bill Brady officially became the GOP nominee for Governor in Illinois (beating out Kirk Dillard by just over 190 votes), Rasmussen is out with a new poll showing the Republican challenger running ten points ahead of the ...

It may seem like an odd thing to deny out of the blue, but in fact Republicans and some in the media have been suggesting the hearings are just that: Playing politics, parading university presidents and others in front of the cameras to ...

Political Fix > Blog Entry. 03.09.2010 2:40 pm. Early poll shows Illinois GOP challenger Brady over Gov. Quinn. By Kevin McDermott. Post-Dispatch Springfield Bureau. Print this. Digg Yahoo! Del.icio.us · Facebook Reddit Drudge Google ...

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Former Illinois Governor Jim Edgar says he doubts the state's budget problems will be solved any time soon. 848: Former Governor Jim Edgar Weighs in on the Fiscal Crisis The Republican says leaders in Springfield lack the political will ...

Despite the losses most observers expect Democrats to incur this fall, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is seeking to show it's still on offense -- or at least in a good position to defend open seats -- in several districts. Today, the ...

Few news columnists are as erudite, opinionated, controversial and widely read as Pulitzer Prize-winning writer George F. Will. A Newsweek Contributing Editor since 1976, Will produces a back page column addressing diverse topics from politics to ...

Former Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick is challenging Congressman Patrick Murphy - the man whose job he would like to once again have - to limit his campaign spending to $1 million in 2010. "The cost of running a campaign is out of control," Fitzpatrick ...

In February, Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, the likely Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Kit Bond, released a statement strongly criticizing the Obama administration's proposed budget. She called it ...

Quinn also plans to cut the income tax revenue ... falling and expenses climbing, Illinois government has a huge hole in its budget. Experts predict the deficit will top $13 billion in the upcoming fiscal year. That's nearly half the entire ...

Rami Nashashibi is the co-founder and executive director of the Inner-City Muslim Action Network, or IMAN. He is actively engaged in African-American, Latino, and Muslim community organizing, and has recently helped launch two important initiatives ...

Governor Pat Quinn's playing a little game with his budget. In an effort to convince reticent lawmakers to raise taxes to help rescue the state from a crushing $13 billion deficit, he's left a tax hike out of his budget proposal. Instead of hiking ...

He and I share a status as alumni of the College of the University of Chicago. There’s not a jealous bone ... And he had the guts to tell Hillary Rodham Clinton, with her Illinois, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Washington, D.C., and Arkansas ...

BLOOMINGTON — A proposal to hire six employees would add $313,000 to the city’s budget, but not all of Bloomington’s aldermen are convinced all six positions are needed. In his proposed $68.2 million budget for the 2010-11 fiscal year, City ...

SPRINGFIELD – For the second time in two weeks the House Agriculture & Conservation Committee has passed a bill that would allow some Illinoisans to carry concealed firearms in public places. But an already controversial measure is even more ...