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Illinois takes new stab at using all its coal
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed a bill yesterday that lets Chicago Clean Energy build a $3 billion coal gasification plant in a rundown section of southeast Chicago, reports the Chicago Tribune. The...
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The death of clean coal
Matthew Wald of the New York Times reported yesterday that the American Electric Power coal company has terminated a planned “full-scale carbon-capture plant” in West Virginia, because the political...
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Name that loan modification program: government must do more to market...
Four years after the housing bubble burst, all levels of government are getting their bearings in addressing the foreclosure crisis. A mix of programs are either being started or revived that might...
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House Republicans have their cake, eat it too
Sean Duffy Ron Nixon of the New York Times looks at several U.S. House Republicans who were elected on a platform of spending cuts but who are also pushing for spending projects of questionable merit...
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Scott Walker’s high-speed blunder
When Scott Walker used a balanced budget bill to strip the collective bargaining rights of public employees, it was defensible if you believed — as the Wisconsin governor did — that unionized public...
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Waiting For Thomson: Guantanamo Bay and an Illinois village held hostage
Thomson (IL) Correctional Facility President Obama made many pledges during his campaign for president, and one of the most cut-and-dried was his promise to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay,...
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Conventional labor disputes
Chicago's McCormick Place Even as both private and public sector unions lose power, labor is a powerful force in Chicago. But Illinois politicians — even Democrats who get union contributions — argue...
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Meanwhile, progress in cutting auto pollution
In the midst of the ruckus over the debt ceiling, Barack Obama announced strong new fuel efficiency standards for automobiles. This is something of a “man bites dog” story at a time of major cuts for...
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Illegal immigration and WI dairy farms
Georgia Pabst of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel had a critical — and flawed — piece Saturday on E-Verify, the joint Dept. of Homeland of Security/Social Security Administration program that makes...
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Immigration reform dreams deferred
Pat Quinn Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed the “DREAM Act” into law Monday, legislation that will create privately-funded scholarships for documented and undocumented immigrants to attend public and...
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