Ray Long
@raylongchicago.bsky.social
Retired Chicago Tribune investigative reporter, 40+years govt/pols/scoops: 2x Pulitzer Finalist, 7 govs, City Hall, Obama, Burke, Madigan.
Author: The House That Madigan Built
Author: The House That Madigan Built
McClain prison term delayed because of federal ‘screwup’
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Quincy lobbyist Michael McClain gets 45-day extension to report, after prison screw up, defense attorney says – Muddy River News
McClain’s serious medical conditions, including prostate cancer, require a specific placement QUINCY – Judge Manish Shah has granted lobbyist Michael McClain until December 29 to report for his two-ye...
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November 15, 2025 at 2:28 PM
McClain prison term delayed because of federal ‘screwup’
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Memo Blessing Boat Strikes Is Said to Rely on Trump’s Claims About Cartels www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
Memo Blessing Boat Strikes Is Said to Rely on Trump’s Claims About Cartels
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November 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Memo Blessing Boat Strikes Is Said to Rely on Trump’s Claims About Cartels www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
How Congress can rein in surging political corruption www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
How Congress Can Rein in Surging Political Corruption
Federal lawmakers can protect the American public by passing a new law to fully implement the Constitution’s oldest anticorruption safeguards.
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November 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
How Congress can rein in surging political corruption www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
Kansas county agrees to pay $3 million over law enforcement raid on a small-town newspaper apnews.com/article/kans...
Kansas county agrees to pay $3 million over law enforcement raid on a small-town newspaper
A rural Kansas county has agreed to pay more than $3 million and apologize over a law enforcement raid on a small-town weekly newspaper in August 2023.
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November 11, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Kansas county agrees to pay $3 million over law enforcement raid on a small-town newspaper apnews.com/article/kans...
Carl Sandburg, Edgar Lee Masters & Vachel Lindsay: Sangamon River poets come to life this weekend at New Salem www.myjournalcourier.com/features/art...
Sangamon River poets come to life this weekend at New Salem
The works of Carl Sandburg, Edgar Lee Masters and Vachel Lindsay — known collectively as the Sangamon River poets — will come to life this weekend in New Salem.
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November 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Carl Sandburg, Edgar Lee Masters & Vachel Lindsay: Sangamon River poets come to life this weekend at New Salem www.myjournalcourier.com/features/art...
Immigration Agents Arrest Man in L.A. Raid and Drive Off With His Toddler www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
Immigration Agents Arrest Man in L.A. Raid and Drive Off With His Toddler
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November 8, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Immigration Agents Arrest Man in L.A. Raid and Drive Off With His Toddler www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
‘A shadow system.’ How a Harvard media lab allegedly serves as a side door into the US for well-heeled Chinese students. mailchi.mp/bostonglobe....
Spotlight: A side door into Harvard
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November 7, 2025 at 11:35 PM
‘A shadow system.’ How a Harvard media lab allegedly serves as a side door into the US for well-heeled Chinese students. mailchi.mp/bostonglobe....
Trump pardons ex-Mets star Darryl Strawberry over past tax and drug conviction
Read in The Guardian: apple.news/AA5J6t83uShu...
Read in The Guardian: apple.news/AA5J6t83uShu...
Trump pardons ex-Mets star Darryl Strawberry over past tax and drug conviction — Guardian US
Trump issued a pardon to Darryl Strawberry for past tax and drug convictions, praising the former Mets star’s faith, sobriety and recovery work
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November 7, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Trump pardons ex-Mets star Darryl Strawberry over past tax and drug conviction
Read in The Guardian: apple.news/AA5J6t83uShu...
Read in The Guardian: apple.news/AA5J6t83uShu...
Chicago Headline Club applauds Judge Ellis decision to prevent federal agents from restricting press freedom
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Press Freedom: 'We chose to fight back ... and won'
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November 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Chicago Headline Club applauds Judge Ellis decision to prevent federal agents from restricting press freedom
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Latinos Swung Left This Week. That’s Trouble for the GOP’s 2026 Texas Redistricting Gambit washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/07/l...
Latinos Swung Left This Week. That’s Trouble for the GOP’s 2026 Texas Redistricting Gambit
Latino voters just swung left in New Jersey and California, signaling trouble for the GOP’s 2026 Texas gerrymander.
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November 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Latinos Swung Left This Week. That’s Trouble for the GOP’s 2026 Texas Redistricting Gambit washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/07/l...
Judge says Bovino lied; you can watch
Judge orders release of US Border Patrol head Gregory Bovino deposition videos: Watch them here www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/06/c...
Judge orders release of US Border Patrol head Gregory Bovino deposition videos: Watch them here
The Chicago Tribune and Chicago Public Media petitioned U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis to release the recordings, which were filed under seal as part of a lawsuit led by the Chicago Headline Club.
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November 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Judge says Bovino lied; you can watch
Judge orders release of US Border Patrol head Gregory Bovino deposition videos: Watch them here www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/06/c...
Judge orders release of US Border Patrol head Gregory Bovino deposition videos: Watch them here
The Chicago Tribune and Chicago Public Media petitioned U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis to release the recordings, which were filed under seal as part of a lawsuit led by the Chicago Headline Club.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Judge orders release of US Border Patrol head Gregory Bovino deposition videos: Watch them here www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/06/c...
Gov. JB Pritzker says an Indiana remap might force Illinois to act as he celebrates Democratic wins Tuesday www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/g...
Gov. JB Pritzker says an Indiana remap might force Illinois to act as he celebrates Democratic wins Tuesday
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker credited Democratic successes in Tuesday’s elections across the country to candidates’ focus on affordability and voters pushing back on Republican President D…
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November 6, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Gov. JB Pritzker says an Indiana remap might force Illinois to act as he celebrates Democratic wins Tuesday www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/g...
‘They destroyed us’: East Chicago woman with schizophrenia who opted for deportation now missing in Mexico www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/t...
‘They destroyed us’: East Chicago woman with schizophrenia who opted for deportation now missing in Mexico
When federal immigration agents raided Martha Porcallo Martinez’s East Chicago, Indiana home on June 12, they also arrested her 26-year-old daughter who has schizophrenia.
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November 6, 2025 at 12:30 AM
‘They destroyed us’: East Chicago woman with schizophrenia who opted for deportation now missing in Mexico www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/t...
Moonrise one window
Sunset in the other
Sunset in the other
November 5, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Moonrise one window
Sunset in the other
Sunset in the other
Ex-House Speaker Michael Madigan appeals corruption conviction, says feds criminalized state politics www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/04/s...
Ex-House Speaker Michael Madigan appeals corruption conviction, says feds criminalized state politics
Three weeks after former House Speaker Michael Madigan reported to federal prison, his lawyers have filed a long-awaited appeal to overturn his corruption conviction.
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November 4, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Ex-House Speaker Michael Madigan appeals corruption conviction, says feds criminalized state politics www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/04/s...
Nick Fuentes Was Charlie Kirk’s Bitter Enemy. Now He’s Becoming His Successor. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...
Opinion | Nick Fuentes Was Charlie Kirk’s Bitter Enemy. Now He’s Becoming His Successor.
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November 4, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Nick Fuentes Was Charlie Kirk’s Bitter Enemy. Now He’s Becoming His Successor. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...
Future of Gerrymandering? Here’s How Weird Things Could Look. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...
Future of Gerrymandering? Here’s How Weird Things Could Look.
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November 1, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Future of Gerrymandering? Here’s How Weird Things Could Look. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...
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Markey on SNAP: "This moment isn't just an economic failure. This isn't just a civic failure. This is an utter moral failure for the Trump administration and MAGA Republicans."
October 29, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Markey on SNAP: "This moment isn't just an economic failure. This isn't just a civic failure. This is an utter moral failure for the Trump administration and MAGA Republicans."
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Thanks, Senator @booker.senate.gov, for speaking up about the UAE-backed atrocities in Sudan.
There are alarming reports that the RSF is committing atrocities against civilians, including mass executions, in El Fasher and cities in North Kordofan, Sudan. The RSF must stop these attacks, allow humanitarian access, and ensure safe passage of civilians out of El Fasher.
Paramilitary massacres unfolding in Sudan’s Darfur, videos show
RSF paramilitary fighters are carrying out mass ethnic killings in the recently captured city of El Fashir, according to videos, aerial images and interviews.
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October 29, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Thanks, Senator @booker.senate.gov, for speaking up about the UAE-backed atrocities in Sudan.
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BREAKING: The Federal Reserve lowers its benchmark interest rate by 0.25 percentage points in its second straight cut.
Federal Reserve cuts interest rates by 0.25 percentage points amid weaker labor market
The Fed on Wednesday announced its second interest-rate cut of 2025, reducing borrowing costs in a move to spur U.S. hiring.
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October 29, 2025 at 6:07 PM
BREAKING: The Federal Reserve lowers its benchmark interest rate by 0.25 percentage points in its second straight cut.
Trump Says He Is Prepared to Send ‘More Than the National Guard’ Into U.S. Cities www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...
Trump Says He Is Prepared to Send ‘More Than the National Guard’ Into U.S. Cities
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October 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Trump Says He Is Prepared to Send ‘More Than the National Guard’ Into U.S. Cities www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...
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Federal immigration agents have again been accused of violating a federal restraining order during a fracas in the Old Irving Park neighborhood over the weekend where residents were tackled and tear gassed as children prepared for a Halloween parade.
Immigration agents accused of more tear gas violations as Cmdr. Bovino faces federal court hearing
Federal immigration agents have again been accused of violating a federal restraining order during a fracas in the Old Irving Park neighborhood over the weekend where residents were tackled and tea…
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October 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Federal immigration agents have again been accused of violating a federal restraining order during a fracas in the Old Irving Park neighborhood over the weekend where residents were tackled and tear gassed as children prepared for a Halloween parade.