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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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April 6, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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MILLER: Poll shows Illinois voters think affordable housing is a problem – Muddy River News
A YouGov poll conducted last month shows Illinois registered voters overwhelmingly believe that the cost of renting and buying a home is a problem in Illinois, think that there aren’t enough affordabl...
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April 4, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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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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May 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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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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November 18, 2024 at 2:04 PM
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MILLER: Who dropped the ball on the Bears? – Muddy River News
Six days before the last day of the spring state legislative session, Sen. Bill Cunningham (D-Chicago) gave me two big reasons why it was so difficult to push a Bears stadium bill across the finish li...
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June 8, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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MILLER: Proposed property tax legislation doesn't provide that much relief – Muddy River News
Before the House passed the megaprojects bill last month, we were told that the drafters didn’t want to just do some symbolic or “token” property tax relief. After the chamber passed the bill, we were...
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May 9, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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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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March 21, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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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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March 7, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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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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February 14, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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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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September 22, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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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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July 4, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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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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May 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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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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May 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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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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February 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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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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January 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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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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December 16, 2024 at 3:44 PM