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Basketball crowd lets Pat Quinn know how we all really feel about him

At the basketball Sectionals at Duff Kingston Gym in Eldorado Saturday, Illinois governor Pat Quinn showed up….and received a well-deserved welcome in response.

Mar 4 2012 | Posted in Breaking,Illinois,Saline | Read More »

Illinois: Las Vegas of the Midwest?

Back in May, a measure to expand gambling in Illinois was approved by a committee in the Illinois House of Representatives, provoking Governor Pat Quinn to remark, “We have no interest in becoming the Las Vegas of the Midwest.” Apparently content to continue his knee-jerk and misdirected gambling policy, I believe Governor Quinn is passing [...]

Dec 19 2011 | Posted in Illinois,Keepin It Kleen | Read More »

Leadership that Southern Illinois Can Believe In

What is wrong with Southern Illinois? Open a newspaper on any given day, and you are likely to ask yourself this question. As Disclosure has documented for the past several years, there is no shortage of political corruption, crime, substance abuse, and economic despair. Of the 34 counties south of I-70, 14 had unemployment rates [...]

Nov 21 2011 | Posted in Illinois,Keepin It Kleen | Read More »

News & Reviews with Jack & Ang Podcast Episode #5

Topics covered for Wednesday, August 31, 2011: Ma Bell, AT&T/T-Mobile, feds, cocaine in France, Rye Playland, Westchester County NY, Muslim American Society of NY, headscarves, police convergence, John Deere, caps, Pat Quinn, purple painted trees, no trespassing, Adam Andrzejewski, Tea Party, forthegoodofillinois.com, state payroll, state pensions, BNNS Rockford, Michael Kleen, Keepin it Kleen, radio, Ed & Sandy (Rose) Conkle, lawsuit, Elizabethtown, First Amendment, Hurricane Irene, Jefferson County ambulance, FEMA, statisticians, David Cox, distractions, Ron Paul, Jennifer Aniston, Broadway, “8″, gay marriage, civil unions, Christen Craig, Bryan Drew, pregnant, Dennis Bridwell, birthday

Aug 31 2011 | Posted in Podcast | Read More »

The criminal DREAM Act: who to blame

On May 30, the so-called Illinois “DREAM Act” (SB-2185) passed the Illinois legislature and it was signed into law by Governor Pat Quinn on August 1st. Ostensibly, the bill creates a private college scholarship fund available to children of immigrants.

Aug 8 2011 | Posted in Illinois | Read More »

Illinois’ Ship of Fools

Over the past decade, Illinois legislators have borrowed and spent our state into the ground, and now they seem determined to tax it into the ground as well. This is no harmless “politics as usual” – their budgetary machinations have very real consequences. Looming fiscal crisis, coupled with an inability to find solutions other than [...]

Jul 18 2011 | Posted in Illinois,Keepin It Kleen | Read More »