aaroncynic

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• Posted Reappointment For Daley's Nephew to Chicagoist
  Peter Thompson, another Daley nephew, has been reappointed to the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority. According to the Sun Times, Thompson helped the mayor rake in $7 million as his campaign finance chief in less than three...
• Posted Quinn, Hynes Tangle In Debate to Chicagoist
  AP Photo/M. Spencer Green Though he wasn’t dressed in a flight suit, Governor Pat Quinn declared “missions accomplished” in today's debate with rival Democratic candidate Dan Hynes. The hour long debate took place at the Union...
• Posted Supporters, Opponents Square Off Over Terrorist Prison Plans to Chicagoist
  The plan to house and put some Guantanamo Bay detainees on trial on the U.S. mainland has predictably generated a flurry of debate, both nationally and locally. On the national level, politicians and pundits alike are up...
• Commented on Gitmo, Illinois?
  "hoping it will bring a much needed jolt of economic development." Nice to know our way out of the economic crisis is by building prisons....
• Posted Financial Fail: Illinois Among States in "Fiscal Peril" to Chicagoist
  Via the Pew's Report Whether we’re hanging our heads at Chicago’s Olympic fail, shaking our fists at our state’s budget woes or rolling our eyes every time our former governor appears on a talk show, Illinoisans...