David Greising – Page 16

Column: Illinois’ do-nothing legislature will finally convene. Its inaction took a big toll.

January 7, 2021 at 6:02 p.m.

The Illinois General Assembly is set to start a lame-duck session in Springfield on Friday. The purpose is to consider laws that, if enacted, could affect daily life across the...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker during a daily briefing on the coronavirus pandemic and other issues, Nov. 4, 2020, at the Thompson Center in Chicago.

Column: Gov. Pritzker, don’t go soft in the fight against COVID-19

December 10, 2020 at 2:55 p.m.

When Ald. Tom Tunney, 44th, got caught sneaking customers into Ann Sather, the landmark restaurant he owns on Belmont Avenue, he called it an "error in judgment." The city called...

Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver leaves U.S. District Court in New York on July 20, 2020.

Column: Life after an iron-grip House speaker? New York found a way; Illinois can too.

November 12, 2020 at 1:11 p.m.

For more than two decades he controlled the state legislature as speaker. He was the head of the state Democratic Party. He vied with governors and mayors to be the...

An aerial view of homes in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago on Oct. 15, 2020.

Column: The pros and cons of tying property taxes to inflation

October 29, 2020 at 4:35 p.m.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot's plan to hike property taxes in the city of Chicago annually, based on increases in the cost of living, is designed to avoid the fits and starts...

Steve Berlin, executive director of the city's board of ethics, attends a meeting in 2017.

Column: Here’s a welcome twist: Chicago City Council stands tough on lobbying rule

October 15, 2020 at 1:54 p.m.

In that first, clean-sweep phase after she was sworn into office last year, Mayor Lori Lightfoot got a unanimous vote for the first few measures of her ethics reform agenda....

House Speaker Michael Madigan stands behind Gov. J.B. Pritzker as the governor delivers his budget address to a joint session of the Illinois House and Senate at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield on Feb. 19, 2020.

Column: Pritzker’s move against Madigan and for reform. More of that, please.

October 1, 2020 at 3:25 p.m.

When Illinois House Minority Leader Jim Durkin began forming a special investigative committee to consider a censure against Speaker Michael Madigan, the speaker dismissed it as "a political stunt" engineered...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker arrives for his budget address at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield on Feb. 19, 2020.

Column: It’s all doom and gloom in Illinois — but we do have the power to fix some of our problems

September 17, 2020 at 3:31 p.m.

What can go wrong will go wrong. We've known that forever. Nobody ever told us it would all go wrong at the same time. Floods, plague and fire are coming...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot talks about a $1.2 billion shortfall with reporters at the Chicago Cultural Center on Aug. 31, 2020.

Column: Mayor Lightfoot’s ‘pandemic budget’ avoids the hard choices

September 3, 2020 at 3:29 p.m.

Even before the pandemic hit, we knew 2021 was going to be a pick-your-poison budget for Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot. Thanks largely but not exclusively to costs and consequences from...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks during a news conference at Olive Park in Chicago on Aug. 14, 2020.

Column: Impatience with Mayor Lightfoot — and from her — grows as violence rages

August 20, 2020 at 4:51 p.m.

In the ongoing effort to get control of the city's streets, Mayor Lori Lightfoot staged a news conference last Friday that was meant to make a statement. Standing on a...

House Speaker Michael Madigan congratulates Gov. J.B. Pritzker after Pritzker's first budget address at the Illinois State Capitol in 2019.

Column: For Speaker Michael Madigan, court of public opinion wields the gavel

August 6, 2020 at 5:14 p.m.

Public Official A has not been charged with a crime, and if that ever were to happen, he would be entitled to a presumption of innocence. He would have his...

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