Chicago Daily Observer

To their credit, the Springfield State Journal Register is carrying the story of yesterday’s dismissal of the Ron Gidwitz/Illinois Coalition for Jobs case vs. Barry Maram and Dan Hynes challenging Governor Blagojevich’s unilateral spending allocations.

The Tribune has not noticed the dismissal, though they did cover the case itself twice, while the Sun-Times carried neither the case nor the dismissal.

None of the two Chicago newspapers have reported the existence of Richard Caro case vs. Governor Blagojevich, though the SJ-R references the case, without context.

It will be interesting to see how if the Tribune decides to carry any information about the Caro case, as the reason for the dismissal of the Gidwitz case was that the Caro case is already pending.

Given that the Tribune has refused to acknowledge the existence of the Caro case, how will they explain the dismissal? Such a dilemma when you are ignoring the ... Read More...

A Sangamon County judge Monday halted a lawsuit challenging Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s authority to expand health-care programs on his own.

Judge Leo Zappa agreed with Blagojevich’s attorney that a similar lawsuit already filed in Cook County should be allowed to proceed unimpeded. Zappa said there’s a danger of different rulings coming out if both cases are adjudicated simultaneously.