by Mark Silva and updated with GOP response.
Slowing the growth of health-care costs - "bending the curve,'' as it's become known - is one of the goals that reformers have in mind.
The bills which Democratic leaders have pushed through the House and are pushing through the Senate do that,'" [...]
It's insiders, not necessarily Democrats or Republicans, who benefit most from Illinois redistricting system, a coalition of government reformers said last week. Illinois' problems run deeper than how campaigns are financed, which men or women present themselves as candidates and the discontentedness of voters. The real problem, says a coalition pushing [...]
As if you haven't heard it all yet, well, Illinois now has a Democrat gay leather master running for State Rep. From the Chicago Reader's "A Kink in the Campaign":
Laiacona, a part-time computer science teacher at Columbia College, is running as a reformer against the incumbent, Deborah [...]
from the Manzo campaign
Elmhurst. IL — Stealing a tactic from Barack Obama’s playbook, Chris Nybo of Elmhurst, a one-time Democratic operative running for state representative, personally challenged the petitions of Michael Manzo on Monday, the last day to file objections to candidate petitions. Manzo is a Republican candidate for state [...]
