by Daniel Johanson In the ever-changing world of local media we take the blows in stride and the victories in glory. In the case of local outlet DNAInfo, those…
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Last week Governor Rauner signed House Bill 40, a bill he had been threatening to veto. The bill is a state assurance that if Roe v. Wade is overturned at…
On Fourth of July Weekend this year Rahm Ehmanuel announced that he would be allocating funding to build a police academy in Garfield Park. Since then, the #nocopacademy movement has…
As the Illinois gubernatorial election looms nearer, the left is having a hard time finding a mast to rally behind. This rings especially true as progressive frontrunner Daniel Biss kicked…
photo by Mark Brennan by Daniel Johanson In a slew of vetoes by the Illinois governor last week, Rauner vetoed a proposal to raise the state minimum wage to $15/hr…
by Daniel Johanson On Monday the Illinois House of Representatives voted on a revised Senate Bill 1, the funding bill which would provide a temporary solution for funding inequality in…
Photo by Dean Hochman by Daniel Johanson This week Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Ameya Pawar’s Journal New Deal Journal came out with a statement strongly against solitary confinement and backing the House Bill…
by Daniel Johanson Over the weekend, AP reported quite a few of Governor Rauner’s most recent vetoes on a few bills that local progressives have been keeping an eye on.…
by Daniel JohansonOn Monday, August 28th the Illinois House of Representatives voted to overturn Rauner’s veto on SB1, and this first vote did not pass. The second vote passed later…
photo by Eric E Castro by Daniel Johanson For those trying to follow along, Senate Bill 1 has been a difficult process as city and state objectives aren’t seeing eye…
by Daniel Johanson In a rushed twitter statement a few weeks back, Trump announced that he would be instituting a transgender ban in the military. The tweets were in response…
photo by Arnette Bernhardt by Daniel Johanson On Friday, Gov. Rauner vetoed a bill that would have raised the Illinois minimum wage to 15/hr by 2022, as reported by the…