Chicago Daily Observer

Dozens of angry suburban residents met with ComEd officials Tuesday to complain about what they called slow response times following last month’s storms that left thousands of customers without power.

John McCain has a remarkable record of leadership and experience that embodies his unwavering lifetime commitment to service. First elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Arizona in 1982, John has a led the fight for reforming Washington , eliminating wasteful government spending, and the strengthening our nation’s armed forces.

John McCain’s reform agenda to reduce federal spending and lower taxes quickly elevated him to statewide office and he was elected U. S. Senate in 1968, after serving two terms in the U.S. House.

In the Senate, John continued to demand congress put an end to loopholes for special interests and fix the broken system in Washington that too often allows lobbyists to write legislation and members of congress to waste taxpayer money. In November 2004, senator McCain was overwhelmingly reelected with nearly 77 percent of the vote.

As the son and grandson of distinguished Navy admirals, John McCain ... Read More...

Pushing for a major tax increase is not cheap.

In fact, even failing at it can be very expensive.

Case-in-point: The region’s transit officials have spent nearly $3 million on lobbying, reports and media blitzes to convince lawmakers a sales tax hike is needed to keep the buses and trains running

The screaming headline on the front page of the Chicago Sun-Times on August 22, 2207, declares “I Still Believe,” referring to former governor and convicted crook George Ryan and his abiding faith in our justice system, or his religion or something, perhaps the value of having friends like former governor Jim Thompson. Whatever Ryan believes in matters not to me. All I can say is that if he “believes,” that makes one of us. I could not believe what I was reading in the story below the headline, Michael Sneed’s touchy-feely yip yap featuring folksy vignettes about Ryan and his wife Lura Lynn enjoying a “quiet and busy” summer, in which Castro’s favorite curmudgeon weeded his garden and “kept a close ear on his squeaky porch swing.” Would that he had kept a close ear on his political lackeys as they shook down employees in the Secretary of State’s office ... Read More...

THE CHICAGO WAY | At 100, legendary law school dean who fled Nazis still cherishes basic values: love and respect

On March 12, 1938, the Nazis marched into Austria. On the following day, a Sunday, Adolf Hitler stood on a balcony and declared Austria part of “Greater Germany.”