It's no surprise a pay equity bill got voted down yesterday. Women wanting equal pay is now seen as just an obsession, like needing a new pair of sti...
Israel and the United States are not one country. Being pro-Israel should not wield so much power that it becomes a principal issue in American elections.
This past weekend, I attended Barack Obama's "Get Out The Vote" rally in Chicago for Alexi Giannoulias. As tens of thousands of people filed in, I pu...
"You would have done very well so far this cycle shorting the hype that a candidate has 'momentum'. Yes, I'm looking at you, Connecticut." --Nate Si...
If anyone had any questions about Mark Kirk's commitment to multi-national corporations in China, they can safely put them aside. After holding his i...
Some of you may remember back in 2007 I ran as a write-in candidate for mayor of Chicago. This fall, you have another opportunity to vote for me.
Chicago television anchor Walter Jacobson called out the Chicago Tribune and Sun-Times for attempting to create controversy and mixing editorial positions as news in the Illinois Senate Race.
Unless it turns out that Alexi Giannoulias did anything illegal -- and no one is alleging that he did -- Broadway Bank is among the least important issues in this campaign.
On February 19, Mark Kirk, a Republican Congressman from Illinois running for a promotion to the US Senate, delivered a speech at the Chicago Council ...
I started to doze off around 10:00 p.m. while Alexi Giannoulias was giving his acceptance speech. I'll have to double-check the transcript, but this is what I thought I heard.
Blago was in the midst of asking me about my children. I mentioned that my eldest had graduated from college. "Find her daughter a job," he said. Blago seemed delighted with himself.
We are no more insulated from a financial crisis today than we were one year ago. Congress has not changed a single rule, habit or practice to stop this economic calamity from happening again.
No one in the race has the resume, experience or heft required of a U.S. Senator. In fact, the bench in Illinois is pretty weak right now, among both Democrats and Republicans.