Even more evidence Illinois can thank the federal government’s covid bailouts for its budget bonanza – Wirepoints
Some Illinois lawmakers continue to deny that covid aid and other federal stimulus bailed the state out of its fiscal mess. But a look at past and projected revenues from COGFA shows just how much the bailouts blew out the state’s revenues. And now that they’re over, how much harder it will be for Illinois revenues to grow.
The Sun is a big time supporter of the them that is in Illinois. Why would anyone expect anything different from them?
As a side note, another basic problem with st vrs trib reporting is that st columist double as repoters. How can you write a highly opinionated left leaning column one day and turn around and write supposed impartial reporting the next and maintain jornalistic integrety? Many other publication suffer the same fate.
ST is dribbing out more details today. I send emails and as usual get no response. Everyone should email st and demand they publish full 120 page affodavite.
Also email trib, crains, wttw, news outlets, all mayoral and aldermanic canidates
Hold on. It turns out the Sun-Times was ordered not to disclose the affidavit’s contents by a judge, per new Crain’s article. They need to explain why they would do that and endanger the ongoing investigation.
It’s too bad they did that, because God only knows who else the feds might have gotten the goods on if this hadn’t leaked. Wonder if they leaked it to protect people higher up the food chain.
That may not have been their intention, but there’s certainly a risk that’s the result. Naturally, over at Rich Miller’s site, he and his followers are cheering the Sun-Times.
the public’s still left in no-mans land, still think st needs to declare what there intentions are? looks like they’re going to keep dribbling out stories from what was printed today. not saying it’s right, but if your fusco, and you’ve already decided to disregard judge, than why not go all out and release the whole thing? it’s that, or make a statement saying we are going to let the feds handle it going forward and not leak out any more stories. the cats out of the bag. wonder if an elections ever been suspended? clear up solis caper and… Read more »
while I thank hinze & crains for somewhat explaining how st got there hands on solis affidavit, the more I think about it there’s still a ton of unanswered questions about where st motivation lay. would be hard to imagine there’s not a gigantic political time bomb yet to explode, why else would you dribble out stories, save the best for last. with st ownership can you trust them to be impartial?–sure they’re 100% behind preckwinkle. whatever remains in affidavit is a powerful tool to sink a candidate that only they know. and looks like st has made the decision… Read more »
Exactly right. The Sun-Times needs to start answering questions, the biggest one being whether they jeopardized what may be the biggest corruption investigation in Illinois history.