In my career as a legislator, I have faced many challenges. No issue that is so pervasive, so detrimental to society, yet so mainstream, has presented as difficult a challenge as gambling.

I've always opposed gambling expansion based on its social consequences. People are not expendable because the price seems...

Rod Blagojevich would be wise to put aside any profits from his new book, The Governor, because if he's convicted on the federal charges against him he will have to surrender those profits to the state of Illinois.

I have not purchased or read The Governor, however, I have...

As chairman of the State Government Administration Committee in the Illinois House of Representatives, I became an early and vocal critic of former Governor Blagojevich's handling of state contracts and the operations of state government. I held hearings on a myriad of questionable deals and alerted the people and the...

The last five months in Springfield have been exciting and difficult. My colleagues and I began this year with a goal to restore the citizens' faith in government and our first action was to impeach former Gov. Blagojevich. We hoped that government reform would follow after a change in administrations....

The embarrassment and shame that grows from the corruption that haunts the state of Illinois continues. Those who were hopeful that the ouster of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich would be the end of Illinois' political drama are surely disappointed by the revelations contained in the audio tape between Senator...