Carlos Hernandez Gomez is a reporter with attitude. Streetwise and smart, punky yet sweet. When Carlos walks into a news conference, he brings his own electricity.
If you want a snapshot of how the sausage is made in an election, it could be seen at 69 W. Washington Tuesday. That building houses both the Chicago and Cook County election boards.
Dawn Clark Netsch, the venerable voice of Illinois political reform, called early Friday morning even though it was going to make her late for a dentist's appointment. She was concerned I was going to get it wrong. That I was going to blast the Legislature for once again passing a watered-down, weak-kneed bill on campaign finance reform that they would hail as progress.
Scott Turow, the prolific, best-selling Chicago author, had a message for Illinois lawmakers the other day.
'Illinois Republicans eat their own," one of my breakfast companions said Wednesday morning at a GOP candidate forum.
When we talked Tuesday, Cheryle Jackson was on her cell phone from Los Angeles, just leaving a meeting with liberal Huff Post blog queen Arianna Huffington. "Exhilarating" was how Jackson described their conversation.
How come Gov. Pat Quinn, in the wake of a clout scandal at the state's premier university, can sweep out the University of Illinois' board of trustees (with two notable exceptions) but can't do the same for our most beleaguered university?
In 2002, the notorious "king" of the Vice Lords, Willie Lloyd, talked with Sun-Times reporters Frank Main and Carlos Sadovi.
