Orange Crate Art: Illinois primaries
It appears that Illinois voters don’t think much of Bruce Rauner.
Back to earth
The mantra of “flexibility” now in play in Wisconsin would seem to be a strategy to diminish or eliminate whole fields of academic endeavor: African-American studies, art history, classical studies, cultural studies, foreign languages, literature, philosophy, queer studies, women’s studies, whatever might be deemed impractical, unprofitable, unacceptable.
“Here’s what it’s like to live in the shadow of a Big Ten school”
What makes the news: a new coach.
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Chicago State sends out layoff notices.
Sanders at Chicago State
Bernie Sanders, speaking at Chicago State University last night: “Why is anybody in the world talking about shutting down colleges?” And: “Where are our priorities?”
Illinois’s higher-ed crisis on the evening news
NBC Nightly News has taken notice.
Obama on the Titanic
As with Bruce Rauner’s State of the State address, the subject of the budget was barely there. Obama’s reference came only in passing, as the ship continues to sink.
Back to Springfield
Obama returns to address the legislature in a dysfunctional state.
Three Rauner thoughts
In a prepared text of 4,229 words, Rauner’s first direct reference to the lack of a budget appeared with only 236 words to go,
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A sad indication of what now counts as good news in Illinois.
“Horrible”
The present catastrophe-in-the-making threatens to damage public higher education in Illinois for years to come.
Illinois’s higher-ed crisis
Bruce Rauner may not be the worst governor in the United States right now — that honor must go to Michigan’s Rick Snyder. But Rauner is certainly in the running.
Welcome to Illinois
“The rich families remaking Illinois are among a small group around the country who have channeled their extraordinary wealth into political power, taking advantage of regulatory, legal and cultural shifts that have carved new paths for infusing money into campaigns.”
A petition to protect higher education in Illinois
The situation for public universities and community colleges is growing worse and worse.
Nantucket ≠ Illinois
From Moby-Dick.
Illinois gets a star
Equal marriage in Illinois.
Illinois political geography
The New York Times breaks it down.
Blagojevich sentencing poll
It’s not every state whose news organizations get to poll audiences on appropriate prison time for an ex-governor.”
Rod Blagojevich found guilty
In the Dog-Bites-Man Department: an Illinois politician has been found guilty on corruption charges.
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About Illinois politics
Need worked
A regionalism, "need + past participle"
"Menu"
A buffet menu with lots of quotation marks
An Illinois coinage
Blagodoccio
Illinois Central Railroad Pencil
A railroad pencil, and the role of the Illinois Central in blues
Pluto Day
"POLS FETE UNDERWORLD BOSS": fake headline for Pluto Day in Illinois
MVEMJSUNP!
Illinois and Pluto
Goodbye, Pages for All Ages
A bookstore gone
Naming names
The proper names in Rod Blagojevich's closing argument to the Illinois Senate
Life imitating life
Blagojevich not imitating Nixon
What irony?
"As legislators weigh impeaching Gov. Rod Blagojevich and federal prosecutors prepare to indict him on corruption charges, his acting chief of staff and a deputy governor will be keynote speakers Wednesday at an "Ethics in the Workplace" seminar for some 200 state employees. . . ."