From Elise Bouc, spearhead of the opposition to passage of the Equal Rights Amendment in Illinois: Disappointment with the ERA After a long hard battle, the ERA passed in the Illinois House tonight by a vote of 72 – 45 … Continue reading
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Found here on Illinois Review: Andersson is one of the Republican House members who voted for the Democrats income tax hike. He decided not to run for re-election. … Continue reading
With both of our female State Senators having voted to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, I reached out to State Rep. Barbara Wheeler to ask her position. Her being a strong Pro-Life supporter, I figured it would be negative, but … Continue reading
From the Illinois Family Institute, re-published with permission: Pro-Life Groups Withdraw Support from Republican Senators that Supported the ERA Written by John Biver The leaders of six pro-life organizations issued a public statement on Friday criticizing the 8 Republican state … Continue reading
Four decades ago, the Illinois House refused to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. The drama was high with proponents pouring animal blood outside House Speaker George Ryan’s door. Equally intense, but less destructive of public property, opponents were mobilized by … Continue reading
Rich Miller looked at other state capitols wrestling with sexual harassment in an article yesterday. An issue that’s exploding across the country If you enjoy watching politicians twist in the wind, you will like what he found. An article found … Continue reading
A press release from the Student Peace Action Network at McHenry County College: “Equal Means equal” tomorrow Thursday 6:30 p.m. MCC Equal Means Equal, a documentary urging the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment will be presented Thursday October 19th … Continue reading
The following is what State Senator Karen McConnaughay prepared in anticipation of her comments for the Equal Rights Amendment: It is disturbing to me that we stand here today, with just over a week until adjournment debating a contentious, outdated … Continue reading
Democrats in Springfield are in a time warp, probably brought on by the financial mess that over thirty years of Mike Madigan rule has put us in. With an off-year election looming and Democrats in the House scared to break … Continue reading
It’s as if the Senate Democrats are in a time warp. They keep bring back the Equal Rights Amendment. When it failing in the 1970’s, I voted for it. Since then I have changed my mind. The following email that … Continue reading
An email to Wonder Lake residents from Wonder Lake Master Property Owners Association President Dick Hilton:about the closure of Wonder Lake for Labor Day Weekend: LAKE USE ALERT – PLEASE READ – On advice of IL EPA LAKE CLOSED UNTIL … Continue reading
A Friend of McHenry County Blog sent the following paragraph from Forbes: “The fourth most dangerous city as ranked by our list is Springfield, Ill., a metro area of 200,000 four hours south of Chicago where the FBI reports 855 … Continue reading
when I saw the Chicago Tribune editorial on McHenry County’s former Democratic State Representative Tom Hanahan, I sent his and my former State Senator Jack Schaffer an email asking for his memories. It gave me two of the five belly … Continue reading
This time from former State Rep. Penny Pullen (R-Park Ridge). The Chicago Tribune obituary concentrated on the opposition of former State Representative Tom Hanahan (D-Johnsburg) to the Equal Rights Amendment. I asked, Penny Pullen, the Republican leader of the opposition … Continue reading
The last Democrat to serve in the Illinois House before Jack Franks died in Arizona April 3rd. This is the second installment of some of my memories of Tom, who died of cancer in Prescott, Arizona, on April 3, 2009. … Continue reading
McHenry County College’s baseball stadium has gotten most of the attention of people interested in college expansion plans. That has irritated those pushing the baseball stadium to no end, because they think the nursing program part of Health, Wellness and … Continue reading
McHenry County College’s baseball stadium has gotten most of the attention of people interested in college expansion plans. That has irritated those pushing the baseball stadium to no end, because they think the nursing program part of Health, Wellness and … Continue reading
In my Fantasy Baseball article in late February, re-printed Tuesday, McHenry County Blog examined McHenry County College’s Economics Research Associates’ second feasibility study on its baseball stadium. First attendance projections were analyzed and found to be woefully inadequate. A college … Continue reading
In my Fantasy Baseball article in late February, re-printed Tuesday, McHenry County Blog examined McHenry County College’s Economics Research Associates’ second feasibility study on its baseball stadium. First attendance projections were analyzed and found to be woefully inadequate. A college … Continue reading
I know that MCC President Walt Packard announced the baseball stadium proposal is dead, but I still want to critique Economics Research Associates’ second analysis on Mark Houser’s and Pete Heitman’s McHenry County College baseball stadium proposal covers naming rights … Continue reading