The First Ward – THE STRAIGHT SCOOP ON ILLINOIS POLITICS!

Could the Metra Board appointment get any worse!
And the simple answer to that simple question is, “Yes! It could!,” because it just did.
When we last left off, despite abundant advanced warning, Kane County Chairman Corinne Pierog and her lackluster County Board appointed Burlington Northern employee and former County Board member Matt Hansen to that $15,000 a year plum patronage proposition...

We aren’t gonna bother with the numbers this time because nuthin’s changed. The Illinois prevalence still sits squarely at 1 in 30 and the mortality rate has been at 1.7 percent since last November. As previously stipulated, until and unless something...

Because if we were, I’d be playing center for the Chicago Bulls. And since I’m nothing if not the perfect example of the perpetually perturbed red-blooded American, I’m seriously considering filing an age discrimination lawsuit just to get a tryout.
Of course, I kid, but it’s this patently bullshit progressive notion that anyone can do anything that’s really getting on my last good nerve. I still vividly recall watching Gloria Steinem stare directly into the camera and tell us that fathers were...

Considering the troubling trend of routine police stops rapidly escalating to the application of lethal force – particularly against minorities, Bill Maher frequently questions whether propensity to overestimate potential danger has made police officers...