What of Eakin’s wife Heidi representing sinning judges before the Judicial Conduct Board? What of Judge Eakin playing golf with Jayne Duncan’s Judge and Heidi telephone the DA’s office and bragging about it?

The “Boys-will-be-Boys” scandal dealing with pornographic emails appears to deal more with Republican judges, prosecutors and other court personnel.

Not only is this a huge source of potential revenue, but it serves to mitigate the negative impact of huge fortunes passing from the reasonably responsible hands of the earners to the haphazard, inexperienced and untested recipients.

Tipping is an incentive system. It encourages servers to do their best for patrons.

If the tax increase were limited to just the 115,000 households in the top 0.1 percent, with an average income of $9.4 million, a 40 percent tax rate would produce $55 billion in extra revenue in its first year…

Even so, the $127,000 would only amount to about half the amount needed to pay interest and debt service on the $5.4 million the city intends borrow against CRIZ revenue this year.

Attorney General Kathleen Kane issued a statement disputing the suggestion by the state Supreme Court and the Judicial Conduct Board that emails recently referred to both bodies by Kane’s office are new, and were not provided last year when requested of the Office of Attorney General. The statement also seemed to question the veracity of the investigations conducted by both bodies in 2014.

In our eyes since the get go, Bernie Sanders is not running for the Presidency but is using the campaign bully pulpit to energize progressives and win over new comers. What the columnist perceives as opportunism, we felt was sheer righteous indignation, given with the passion and conviction as his other deeply held views.

Years ago, banks dominated the system and got their funds mainly from household and business deposits. These were largely immune to panic because most were government-insured. But in recent decades, a “wholesale” market for funds had developed consisting of the spare cash of corporations, pension funds, wealthy individuals and others. These uninsured funds were lent to banks and other financial institutions for short periods, often overnight. By late 2006, wholesale funds totaled $5.6 trillion, exceeding insured deposits of $4.1 trillion. It was the abrupt withdrawal of these funds that drove panic and threatened the financial system with collapse.

Both are chief executive officers of the last two states (Pennsylvania and Illinois) without an operating budget. Both are businessmen worth considerably more than ordinary folks, Rauner through equity investing (shades of Mitt Romney!) and Wolf via a family owned business.