Some Illinois officials avoid tax debate - Springfield, IL - The State Journal-Register

Some Illinois officials avoid tax debate - Springfield, IL - The State Journal-Register: "As the governor and legislators struggle to balance the state budget, Illinois’ other statewide elected officials are largely ducking the key question of whether to raise income taxes."

Daily Herald | Is ex-radical Quinn maturing or just compromising?

Daily Herald Is ex-radical Quinn maturing or just compromising?: "Gov. Pat Quinn sat shoulder-to-shoulder with House Speaker Michael Madigan as the two Democrats pushed a watered-down campaign finance package they said would keep big money out of Illinois politics."

Official gets no-confidence vote for questionable payments, expenses

Official gets no-confidence vote for questionable payments, expenses :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Politics: "The heat was turned up Tuesday on a suburban education official accused of using a government credit card for personal expenses and approving questionable payments to relatives on his payroll -- as county commissioners issued a vote of no confidence and state officials revealed a criminal probe is under way."

Gifting the boss in Chicago

Gifting the boss -- chicagotribune.com: "Let's begin by congratulating Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown for her decision to stop accepting cash gifts from employees. Though she long defended the practice as perfectly legal (sad but true) and completely voluntary (unlikely), Brown now acknowledges that at the very least, it looks bad."

House impeaches federal judge from Texas - Yahoo! News

House impeaches federal judge from Texas - Yahoo! News: "The House on Friday impeached a federal judge imprisoned for lying about sexual assaults of two women in the first such vote since impeaching former President Bill Clinton a decade ago."

Federal Judge believes he is above the law, as most of them do.

Ensign aide: Ex-mistress' husband wanted money - Yahoo! News

Ensign aide: Ex-mistress' husband wanted money - Yahoo! News: "The husband of Sen. John Ensign's former mistress made 'exorbitant demands for cash and other financial benefits' through an attorney, an aide to the Nevada Republican said Friday. In a statement, Ensign spokesman Tory Mazzola said the demands from an attorney for Doug Hampton were made within the past month."

Crime Lab | The University of Chicago

Crime Lab The University of Chicago

Sotomayor quits women's club after GOP criticism - Yahoo! News

Sotomayor quits women's club after GOP criticism - Yahoo! News: "Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor resigned Friday from an elite all-women's club after Republicans questioned her participation in it. Sotomayor said she resigned from the Belizean Grove to prevent the issue from becoming a distraction in her confirmation hearings."

Iran's leader: End protests or risk 'bloodshed' - Yahoo! News

Iran's leader: End protests or risk 'bloodshed' - Yahoo! News: "Iran's supreme leader sought Friday to end the deepening crisis over disputed elections with one decisive speech — declaring the vote will almost certainly stand and sternly warning opposition leaders to end street protests or be held responsible for any 'bloodshed and chaos' to come."

Obama holds to measured course on unrest in Iran - Yahoo! News

Obama holds to measured course on unrest in Iran - Yahoo! News: "The Obama administration on Friday stuck to a measured response to the uprising in Iran over a disputed presidential election, even as both houses of Congress voted overwhelmingly to condemn an official crackdown on mostly peaceful demonstrations in the streets of Tehran."

Dems' health care plan stumbles but keeps moving - Yahoo! News

Dems' health care plan stumbles but keeps moving - Yahoo! News: "Democrats got a sobering glimpse of what it would look like if their ambitious health care overhaul ran into a wall — and they quickly pulled back to regroup and get moving again."

Address your Legislative Body. Who is your representative in Illinois?

Our elected officials in Springfield let us down. If they don't do the right thing and pass a fair income tax increase before it's too late, our families and our communities are facing disaster. The individuals presently receiving and seeking substance abuse treatment will no longer get this help. They will be in every neighborhood in Illinois taking care of their business if we do not help in getting them the services they need. We will all be victims to their need for relief of their drug habits.

Take ride to Springfield. Look at the list and see what bus is closes to your location. Take the ride now, or you surely will take the ride later, but at hands of those who cannot get substance abuse services. It will be in every neighborhood.

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NASW Illinois Doomsday Budget is upon us - Draconian Measures expected

NASW Illinois Doomsday Budget is upon us - Draconian Measures expected

Iran's top leader warns of protest crackdown - Yahoo! News

Iran's top leader warns of protest crackdown - Yahoo! News: "Iran's supreme leader sternly warned of a crackdown if protesters continue days of massive street rallies, escalating the government's showdown with demonstrators demanding a new presidential election."

Supreme leader: Iran vote was "definitive victory" - Yahoo! News

Supreme leader: Iran vote was "definitive victory" - Yahoo! News: "Iran's supreme leader says there was 'definitive victory' and no rigging in disputed presidential elections that set off days of unprecedented protests."

AP: State hiring freezes allow numerous exceptions - Yahoo! News

AP: State hiring freezes allow numerous exceptions - Yahoo! News: "Financially strapped states that have announced a freeze on all but essential hiring have made thousands of exceptions for zookeepers, dog wardens, golf-course groundskeepers, boxing inspectors, state fair workers and the like, an Associated Press review of hiring records has found."

Media Matters Daily Summary

Here are today's news items from Media Matters for America, click on the title or 'read more' to read the entirety of each story. Morris falsely claimed Obama favors "rationing," eliminating certain medical procedures Dick Morris claimed that one of the ways President Obama can pay for health care reform is to "do what he's increasingly doing, which is to crack down on health care spending and have severe rationing." In fact, the Obama administration has not advocated "rationing" or eliminating any of the medical procedures Morris identified. Read More NY Times, John Fund omit McCaskill's statement supporting White House removal of Walpin The New York Times and John Fund each noted that Sen. Claire McCaskill said President Obama had not provided a legally "sufficient reason" for removing Gerald Walpin from his position as inspector general. But neither noted that McCaskill subsequently said additional information provided by the White House put it "in full compliance" with legal requirements and that "the decision to remove Walpin appears well founded." Read More Conservative media still promoting Obama birth certificate conspiracy theories Conservative media figures have continued to advance various versions of the discredited myth that Barack Obama has not produced a valid birth certificate, is not a natural-born U.S. citizen, and is not eligible to be president. Read More Media trumpet Walpin claims without noting acting U.S. attorney's allegations In reporting on Gerald Walpin's removal as inspector general and hosting Walpin to discuss his claims, Fox & Friends, Glenn Beck, and Laura Ingraham did not note a U.S. attorney's allegations against Walpin. Read More Media revive Clinton-era smear, dub White House health care plan "ObamaCare" Many media figures have dubbed President Obama's health care reform proposal "ObamaCare," reinventing the terms "HillaryCare" and "ClintonCare" that were used by opponents of the Clintons' reform proposal. In doing so, these media are often seeking to frame the debate in negative terms. Read More ABC Obama health care special brings out Fox News' hypocrisy In criticizing a former ABC News correspondent now working in the Obama White House and ABC's refusal to air an advocacy ad during a program to be broadcast from the White House, Fox News guests and hosts have ignored Fox's own history of refusal to air advocacy ads that criticized the Bush administration, or that Tony Snow left Fox News to be President Bush's press secretary. Read More Media reports on polling reinforce public's view of deficit, rather than informing it Media reports on polls indicating public concern over the federal budget deficit did not report the view among prominent economists that the government's response to recession should be spending and not deficit reduction. Read More You can help support our work; become a volunteer media monitor, or donate to Media Matters for America.

The End Game in Iran: Four Ways the Crisis May Resolve - Yahoo! News

The End Game in Iran: Four Ways the Crisis May Resolve - Yahoo! News: "Some observers see Iran's courageous protests against a stolen election as a replay of the 1979 revolution that ended the tyranny of the Shah - or of the 'velvet revolutions' that ended communism in Eastern Europe. Others fear a repeat of China's 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. But none of these comparisons easily fits the unique combination of discord on the streets and infighting in the corridors of power currently under way in Tehran."

Officials: US tracking suspicious ship from NKorea - Yahoo! News

Officials: US tracking suspicious ship from NKorea - Yahoo! News: "The U.S. military is tracking a ship from North Korea that may be carrying illicit weapons, the first vessel monitored under tougher new United Nations rules meant to rein in and punish the communist government following a nuclear test, officials said Thursday."

Mexico drug charges against 7 mayors, 20 officials - Yahoo! News

Mexico drug charges against 7 mayors, 20 officials - Yahoo! News: "Mexico levied organized crime and drug charges Thursday against seven mayors, the former state attorney general and 19 other officials in the western state of Michoacan for allegedly aiding a drug cartel."