MILLER: Money couldn't buy some Illinois races – Muddy River News One of the biggest stories to come out of election day was that several candidates with the most money came up short.   The obvious example is the race for United States Senate, where US Rep. Raja Kri...

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MILLER: Campaign crud – Muddy River News Unless you’ve been under a rock, you likely know that former US President Bill Clinton seemed to say that he flew on Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet with JB Pritzker and his spouse – after saying that i...

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MILLER: Illinois budget in flux thanks to federal uncertainties – Muddy River News As I write this, Gov. JB Pritzker is preparing to give his annual budget address. It’s an unenviable task. Earlier this month, the Governor’s Office of Management and Budget released a report showing ...

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MILLER: Edgar set the GOP standard for winning modern elections – Muddy River News Jim Edgar ran a brilliant campaign for governor in 1990. He set the template for every winning statewide race since then by focusing on the importance of independent suburban women. The Republican Edg...

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MILLER: "The Chosen One" is back – Muddy River News Christian Mitchell has had strong detractors ever since Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle elevated the young Black man out of obscurity and backed him for the Illinois House in 2012. Preckw...

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MILLER: What the proposed Medicaid and SNAP cuts mean for Illinois – Muddy River News The US House’s Energy and Commerce Committee released its recommendations for budget reconciliation early last week. A preliminary review by the Congressional Budget Office projected that, if implemen...

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MILLER: Speaker Welch whacks appropriations chair for going "rogue" – Muddy River News House Speaker Chris Welch took the extraordinary actions last week of permanently kicking Rep. Fred Crespo (D- Hoffman Estates) out of the House Democratic caucus, stripping him of his legislative sta...

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MILLER: Pritzker's governing must come before his campaigning – Muddy River News During a rip-roaring speech in New Hampshire last week, Gov. JB Pritzker called for mass national protests and “disruption,” assailed “do-nothing” Democrats for their “simpering timidity” and labeled ...

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MILLER: Illinois GOP hit hard in Tuesday's election – Muddy River News You’ve probably read about the Republican Party implosion last week in suburban municipal and township campaigns, particularly in DuPage County. It’s important to remember that these consolidated elec...

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MILLER: Ethics reform remains on the backburner despite Madigan conviction – Muddy River News Illinois House Speaker Chris Welch didn’t sound all that enthused about passing any new ethics reforms during an interview last week. In the wake of former House Speaker Michael Madigan’s conviction o...

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MILLER: No easy fix for state pension issue – Muddy River News The Illinois legislature’s Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability recently released an eye-popping actuarial analysis of a union-backed pension reform plan. The analysis concluded tha...

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MILLER: State looking to parcel out education funding – Muddy River News The Democratic legislative leaders and the governor agreed to squirrel away $260 million in lump-sum appropriations to various state agencies last spring. But now some groups are figuring out that a b...

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MILLER: All quiet on the Veto Session front – Muddy River News Just about nothing happened in the first week of veto session in the House and the Senate. The Democratic legislative leaders are still trying to figure out what their members want to do in the wake o...

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