Tag Archives: Sun Times
Nancy Thorner in the Sun Times “Don’t let Zion nuke plant go to waste”

Nancy Thorner in the Sun Times “Don’t let Zion nuke plant go to waste”

Unless there is intervention soon, north suburban Zion’s Dual Nuclear Facility, capable of producing 2,100 megawatts of power, will be foolishly wasted.

Liberty Leader Michael Turay “All hunky-dory in Illinois?”

Liberty Leader Michael Turay “All hunky-dory in Illinois?”

Liberty Leader Michael Turay has a letter in today’s Chicago Sun Times… All hunky-dory in Illinois? The Illinois state budget is signed, the legislators are home for the summer, the property-poor suburban and Downstate as well as the Chicago schools, if you believe Mayor Daley, are hurting. Social services are hurting, pensions are once again [...]

Where Did that 100K Go?

Here was have another blaring example of Illinois’ need for transparency in government:  A $100,000 state grant for a botanic garden in Englewood that then-state Sen. Barack Obama awarded in 2001 to a group headed by a onetime campaign volunteer is now under investigation by the Illinois attorney general amid new questions, prompted by Chicago [...]

Sun-Times Provides Some Sunlight

The Sun-Times brings some sunlight to government spending. Click here to see the paper’s transparency initiatives in action. All government entities should implement transparency and post all expenditures and financial information online voluntarily.  Liberty Leaders are working hard to make that happen in their hometown, but thanks Sun-Times for this valuable resource.

Dirty mess? Clean it up, with Transparency

Drinks, Vice President Dallas? Satellite radio for you, CTU President Stewart? Large lunch and dinner parties or tasty drinks aplenty on the Chicago Teachers Union’s dime – or, actually on the public school teachers’ dime who fund the unions, willingly or unwillingly- or more specifically, on the taxpayers’ dime who fund public school teacher salaries [...]


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