As I’ve been telling Statehouse types for a long while, lobbyists and legislators need to be paying very close attention to what’s happening in the corruption trials relating to and involving former House Speaker Michael Madigan.

It’s been an open secret for weeks that at least some members of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Intergovernmental Affairs staff would be leaving after the Democratic National Convention, including its director, Sydney Holman. That happened last week. Holman quit, and two others were forced out of the IGA office, which liaisons with both the city council and the Illinois General Assembly.

Several stories and columns appeared in the national news media shortly before and during the recent Democratic National Convention about Vice President Kamala Harris’ emphasis on the concept of “freedom” in her speeches and messaging.

I highly respect and commend Kennedy with the spirit of and his ultimate objectives to defund war and to tame the FED & inflation; it requires a lot of courage (to threaten) to take on the military industrial complex and the banking system. I simply disagree on his approach, namely his lack of attention to legal tender gold and silver.