Better Government Association

Chicago Magazine's David Bernstein and the Better Government Association have teamed up to administer the whuppin' stick to Democratic Cook County assessor candidate and video-poker industry lobbying Joe Berrios Berrios stands as a prime example of the...

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OK, so my headline on this afternoon's breaking media story is a bit hyperbolic, but... MSNBC has suspended prime-time host Keith Olbermann indefinitely without pay for contributing to the campaigns of three Democratic candidates this election season.......

The New Trier High School District 203 board violated the Illinois Open Meetings Act last spring when it privately discussed topics that should have been …...

From the Better Government Association analysis that kick-started the idea of trimming the size of the Chicago City Council: Chicago’s population reached 2.8 million in 2009. The City is broken down into 50 districts, or wards, each with its own.......

Posted by Hal Dardick at 4:30 p.m. An appointed Cook County ethics official resigned his post one day after a news report revealed his political ties to Assessor Joseph Berrios, who is under an ethics spotlight for hiring his son......

Posted by Hal Dardick at 6:33 p.m. Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas today defended paying more than $150,000 in taxpayer-funded salaries to her driver and cleaning lady, saying their jobs are legitimate but misclassified like thousands of others in...

From CBS2/The Better Government Association: The Chicago Public Schools system is suffering from a $700 million budget shortfall. So why did some educators travel to Las Vegas just days after a travel restriction was ordered? .... An analysis of an......

I love the determined, sniff 'em out and lock 'em up sound of a "forensic audit" of state government, don't you? It was the bumper-sticker demand of defeated Republican gubernatorial primary candidate Adam Andrzejewski. And now there are GOP-backed...

A red-light camera company seeking business from Berwyn has had links to a politically connected lawyer who does legal work for the city and has contributed to the mayor's political campaign. A document provided by the Illinois secretary of state's...

Though his mop top and beady eyes recalled the plucky orphan Dondi, evidently the cartoon character former Gov. Rod Blagojevich saw himself as was more like Nelson Muntz, scourge of the schoolyard in "The Simpsons." In a recording played for......

My colleague Ray Long joins Andy Shaw of the Better Government Association, Greg Hinz of Crain's Chicago Business, and host Bill Cameron on Connected to Chicago -- download WLS AM 890 audio) or listen Sunday at 2 p.m. I joined......