CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— There’s nothing subtle about Willie Wilson’s giveaway – Kristen McQueary
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-mcqueary-chicago-mayor-election-willie-wilson-cash-rauner-20180724-story.html
— Willie Wilson, the politician, must separate himself from ‘Robin Hood,’ the do-gooder – Dahleen Glanton
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/glanton/ct-met-dahleen-glanton-willie-wilson-20180723-story.html
— What’s going on at the Tollway? – Editorial
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-tollway-patronage-rauner-corruption-20180720-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps a) demonize, denigrate, and condemn older people and b) glorify and praise those who refuse to speak, read, and/or write English.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/lake-county-news-sun/opinion/ct-lns-selle-medicare-translation-service-st-0724-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, anti-Trumps use illegals to demonize, to denigrate, and to condemn Americans.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-trump-immigration-deportations-marriage-20180723-story.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Trump looks to punish critics – Chris Megerian and Eli Stokols (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents focus on destroying individuals, organizations, companies, governments, etc. that they cannot manipulate/dominate. I should write a book about my critics/opponents.)
https://www.pressreader.com/usa/chicago-tribune/20180724/281483572174172
— Rauner signs DuPage ballot counting change – Rick Pearson
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-morning-spin-tuesday-20180723-story.html
— Rauner to the rescue
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-morning-spin-tuesday-20180723-story.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The House Republican Organization, the campaign arm of the House GOP in Springfield, reported Monday receiving a $2 million check from the governor. Some Republicans and their allies had been questioning Rauner’s intention to fund campaign operations for the fall while he focuses on his own re-election bid. Republicans have come to count on cash from the wealthy governor, an equity investor, and he has largely subsidized the state GOP. Pritzker, the wealthy Democratic challenger, is using his money to also help bankroll Democratic candidates and campaign committees to respond to Rauner’s past funding practices.)
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Facebook moving into new Loop high-rise, vows to add jobs – Tom Schuba
https://chicago.suntimes.com/business/facebook-moving-new-loop-high-rise-add-jobs/
DAILY HERALD
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps say “Even now, GOP still enabling Trump.”
https://www.dailyherald.com/discuss/20180724/even-now-gop-still-enabling-trump
— Mayors: Tollway’s Route 53 open house setup discourages opponents – Marni Pyke
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180723/mayors-tollways-route-53-open-house-setup-discourages-opponents
CBS2
— Illinois Mayoral Candidate Willie Wilson Defends Big Cash Giveaway – Derrick Blakley
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2018/07/23/mayoral-candidate-willie-wilson-cash-giveaway/
— KKK Fliers Found In Tinley Park Yards – Jeremy Ross
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2018/07/23/kkk-fliers-found-tinley-park/
KANKAKEE DAILY JOURNAL
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, anti-Trumps use illegals to demonize, to denigrate, and to condemn Americans.
http://www.daily-journal.com/news/local/prayer-vigil-to-be-held-for-separated-families/article_6a233bb0-8acb-11e8-8b38-7394453773c9.html
FOX NEWS CHICAGO
— Rauner says he didn’t know about mayoral candidate’s cash giveaway – AP
http://www.fox32chicago.com/news/local/chicago-mayoral-candidate-shows-up-at-church-hands-out-200-000
— Rep. Roskam, challenger Casten to face off in heated debate – Mike Flannery
http://www.fox32chicago.com/news/local/roskam-casten-debate-illinois
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Trump traveling to Granite City steel mill; Rauner won’t be there – AP
http://www.sj-r.com/news/20180723/trump-traveling-to-granite-city-steel-mill-rauner-wont-be-there
— Access, bias are issues for women in Illinois politics and public service – Doug Finke (DIERSEN: GAO hired me in 1980 because it could not find a qualified woman, Democrat, minority, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. IRS hired me in 1971 because it could not find a qualified woman, Democrat, minority, or veteran who would take the job. The Post Office hired me in 1966 because it could not find a qualified woman, Democrat, minority, or veteran who would take the job.)
http://www.sj-r.com/news/20180723/access-bias-are-issues-for-women-in-illinois-politics-and-public-service
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— From toilet tales to TV tactics, governor’s race is flush with insults – Jim Dey
http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/2018-07-24/jim-dey-toilet-tales-tv-tactics-governors-race-flush-with-insults.html
QUAD CITIES ONLINE
— AG candidate Erika Harold brings listening tour to Q-C – SARAH HAYDEN
https://qconline.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/ag-candidate-erika-harold-brings-listening-tour-to-q-c/article_62779880-70ea-54f7-9365-86d559c7fb19.html
BELLEVILLE NEWS DEMOCRAT
— Suburban Chicago village (Cary) returns $60,000 anonymous donation – AP
https://www.bnd.com/news/state/illinois/article215412025.html
NEWS CHANNEL 20
— Gov. Rauner works to consolidate local government bodies
https://newschannel20.com/news/local/gov-rauner-works-to-consolidate-local-government-bodies
FOX ILLINOIS
— Security measures expected to be raised for Trump’s Granite City visit – Amanda Henderson
https://foxillinois.com/news/local/security-measures-expected-to-be-raised-for-trumps-granite-city-visit
ONE ILLINOIS
— ‘THE NEW GILDED AGE’ ILLINOIS INCOME INEQUALITY TOPS NATIONAL AVERAGE – Ted Cox (DIERSEN: From what I see, there is an above average disparity in income and in housing values in my precinct.)
https://www.oneillinois.com/stories/2018/7/23/the-new-gilded-age
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Illinois was one of eight states to top that disparity, but it was closest to the national average. In Illinois, the average income for the top 1 percent was $1.4 million, 27 times greater than the average salary for the other 99 percent: $52,000. It took income of $421,000 to make the top 1 percent nationally, $456,000 in Illinois. Lake County was among the top counties in the nation for what it takes to make the top 1 percent of residents, with a threshold of $994,000, 18th in the United States. The average income for the top 1 percent there was $3.1 million, 37.4 times greater than the average salary for the other 99 percent of $83,000. Even among the very rich, Illinois held its own. The study found that, of all income going to the top 1 percent nationally, half that figure was accrued by families in five states: California, New York, Texas, Florida, and Illinois. Frank Manzo IV, of the Illinois Economic Policy Institute, which is not affiliated with the national organization, said the data match his for Illinois. According to Manzo, 57,421 Illinois tax filers topped $500,000 in income in 2015, slightly more than 1 percent of the 5,667,344 total. With an average income of $1.56 million, they claimed 21.7 percent of all adjusted gross income statewide.)
CHICAGO CITY WIRE
— ‘Say goodbye’ to Chicago GOP if Morrison amendment adopted – W.J. Kennedy (DIERSEN: I should write a book about those Republican Precinct Committeemen in DuPage County who have worked the hardest since 2000 to get rid of Republican Precinct Committeemen like me who support the a) traditional family, right to life, immigration, Second Amendment, and the rest of the planks in the Illinois Republican Party and the Republican Party platforms and b) the Milton Township Republican Central Committee resolution against video gambling.)
https://chicagocitywire.com/stories/511496377-say-goodbye-to-chicago-gop-if-morrison-amendment-adopted
DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Democrat Statehouse hopeful betting taxpayer-funded abortion, property tax hikes popular with DuPage voters
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/511495693-democrat-statehouse-hopeful-betting-taxpayer-funded-abortion-property-tax-hikes-popular-with-dupage-voters
LAKE COUNTY GAZETTE
— Idstein blames state’s outmigration problem on tax increase – Glenn Minnis (DIERSEN: Yes, but what about the tremendous efforts by Democrats to drive individuals, organizations, and companies out of Illinois that are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, German American, draft avoiders, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time?)
https://lakecountygazette.com/stories/511489011-idstein-blames-state-s-outmigration-problem-on-tax-increase
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— 15 FORMER CHICAGO ALDERMEN COLLECTING 6-FIGURE PENSIONS In the midst of Chicago’s $36 billion pension crisis, former city officials are seeing big payouts. – Eddie Damstra (DIERSEN: I should look up the pensions that my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in the federal government are in line to get or are getting. I could highlight the pensions of my superiors who took adverse actions against me including a) my Democrat GAO superiors who forced me to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old, gave me unfair performance expectations and appraisals, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, did not promote me beyond GS-13, got rid of my mentor in 1987, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and forced me to take an $19,203 pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980; b) my Democrat IRS superiors who did not promote me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, got rid of my mentor in 1975, and disallowed my partial day per diem claims in 1974; and c) my Democrat Post Office superiors who forced me resign in 1969 and disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968.)
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/15-former-chicago-aldermen-collecting-6-figure-pensions/
— ILLINOIS STATE LAW NOT EQUIPPED TO ADDRESS LOCAL GOVERNMENTS’ PENSION PROBLEMS – Joe Tabor
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/hog-tied-illinois-state-law-not-equipped-to-address-local-governments-pension-problems/
BLAZE
— Gov. Rauner seeks distance from ally who handed out $300k in cash to Illinois voters at church – Aaron Colen
https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/07/23/gov-rauner-seeks-distance-from-ally-who-handed-out-300k-in-cash-to-illinois-voters-at-church
TOWNHALL
— Unhinged: New Poll Shows the Majority of Democrats Believe President Trump is a Traitor – Katie Pavlich
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2018/07/23/new-poll-the-majority-of-democrats-believe-president-trump-is-a-traitor-n2502852
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— Trump’s Working Class, Conservative, Populist Realignment – ROBERT W. MERRY
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/trumps-working-class-conservative-populist-realignment/
— Winning the Fight Against Multicultural Concessions – GILBERT T. SEWALL
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/winning-the-fight-against-multicultural-concessions/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Bipartisanship only makes the federal debt crisis worse – Jake Grant
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/bipartisanship-only-makes-the-federal-debt-crisis-worse
INDEPENDENT JOURNAL REVIEW
— NY Governor Says He Values the ‘Free Press’ — Then Offers to Help Newspaper Stay Afloat With State Money – SAM DORMAN (DIERSEN: He who pays the piper calls the tunes.)
https://ijr.com/2018/07/1111190-andrew-cuomo-new-york-daily-news/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Many Genes Play a Role in Educational Attainment, Enormous Genetic Study Finds – Carl Zimmer (DIERSEN: My Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in the federal government always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that the undergraduate and graduate courses that I took a) were not job-related, b) did not help me carry out my job duties, c) were taken by me to get a job in the private sector, and d) were a distraction.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/science/genes-education.html
WASHINGTON POST
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps ask “How long will Republicans debase themselves to Trump’s petty whims?”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/republicans-are-aiding-and-abetting-trumps-attacks-on-justice/2018/07/23/86e7d19c-8eaf-11e8-bcd5-9d911c784c38_story.html
— Immigration cop shortage and a caution against hiring too quickly – Joe Davidson (DIERSEN: GAO hired me in 1980 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. IRS hired me in 1971 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, or veteran who would take the job. The Post Office hired me in 1966 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, or veteran who would take the job.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/07/23/immigration-cop-shortage-a-caution-against-hiring-too-quickly/
USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG COLOR PICTURE: DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Whites demonize, denigrate, and condemn Whites.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2018/07/18/bbq-becky-permit-patty-and-why-internet-shaming-white-people-who-police-black-people/793574002/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Trump Divide Grows Wider As the president moves from controversy to controversy, supporters are embracing him all the harder and detractors are growing more feverish in their opposition – Gerald Seib
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-trump-divide-grows-wider-1532356550
— You Could Be Too Much of a Team Player – Sue Shellenbarger (DIERSEN: In the federal government, to be a team player, is to be an employee who helps get rid of employees who are Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran who did not make GS-13 (currently $96,403) by age 25, GS-14 (currently $113,920) by age 30, GS-15 (currently $134,000) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service (currently $164,200) by age 40.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/you-could-be-too-much-of-a-team-player-1532352464
NATIONAL LAW REVIEW
— EEOC Continues to Focus on Disability Discrimination (DIERSEN: While I worked for GAO 1980-1997 in its Chicago office, at one time or another, my Democrat superiors assigned me to supervise all their disabled employees. All the employees who they assigned me to supervise were Democrat, minority, female, disabled, veteran, and/or employees who they wanted to get rid of.)
https://www.natlawreview.com/article/eeoc-continues-to-focus-disability-discrimination-affecting-individuals-drug-rehab
EHS TODAY
— EEOC Cracks Down on Pre-Employment Physical Testing The tests are targeted for discriminating against women. – David Sparkman
http://www.ehstoday.com/health/eeoc-cracks-down-pre-employment-physical-testing
FEDERAL NEWS RADIO
— Rauner says he didn’t know about candidate’s cash giveaway – AP
https://federalnewsradio.com/government-news/2018/07/rauner-says-he-didnt-know-about-candidates-cash-giveaway/
FED SMITH
— The Shrinking Federal Workforce – Jeff Neal (DIERSEN: All during the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO 1980-1997, the agency shrank.)
https://www.fedsmith.com/2018/07/23/shrinking-federal-workforce/
