Alexi Giannoulias | Democrat for U.S. Senate

From the Daily Chronicle:

CHICAGO – Democratic Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias is looking to turn the tables on Republican Mark Kirk by going on the offensive about banking regulation.

Giannoulias has been pummeled in the media with questions about the performance of his family's Chicago bank.

 The Daily Herald reports on Alexi Giannoulias' speech at the Kane County Democrats' annual Truman Dinner this weekend: 

When Giannoulias stepped to the podium, the problems of the nation all related back to the "failed and reckless economic policies of the Bush/Kirk administration over the past 10 years." 

Giannoulias laid out a generalized platform of ending tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas, investing and rewarding innovation, helping schools and colleges, establishing an energy policy that protects the environment and weens the country off foreign oil and having a balanced budget.

From The Jacksonville Courier:

Alexi Giannoulias calls his U.S. Senate campaign the most important race in the United States this year.

“I can tell you that Washington, D.C., is not helping anybody. Washington, D.C., is broken, which is why we need some fresh leadership,” Giannoulias said Sunday during a campaign stop at Illinois College.

From the Quad-City Times:

Lenny Wages of Moline was like many of the former Quad-City Die Casting employees who learned Thursday that they will receive some reimbursement for medical bills and vacation pay left unpaid after the Moline plant closed in September.

He will be happy to finally receive his three weeks of vacation pay, but said he wished things had turned out differently.