We expect some hypocrisy in politics, but it was still jaw-dropping to behold Republicans accusing President Obama of politicizing the anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden. Wasn’t it just eight years ago that the GOP organized an entire presidential campaign — including the choreography of its 2004 national convention — around the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and George W. Bush’s response to them?

Obama’s opponents don’t just think we have short attention spans. They imagine we have no memories whatsoever.

 Illinois’ top Senate Democrat dropped his resistance Wednesday to abolishing the state’s scandal-tainted legislative scholarship program and advanced a measure that would kill the waivers this fall.

The legislation carried by Senate President John Cullerton (D-Chicago) that moved out of a Senate subcommittee also included a provision that would set up a task force to examine whether to continue $364 million in tuition waivers beyond those that legislators themselves hand out.

Until recently, bowing to pressure particularly from within his own caucus, Cullerton had held out hope of reforming and preserving the legislative scholarship program that allows lawmakers to dole out free tuition to whomever they want.

About 100 people packed into a conference room at the 95th Street Library in Naperville Monday night to meet with Will County officials about the planned extension of 95th Street.

The plan was for residents to watch a slide presentation of the project’s progress and ask questions of county officials afterward.

But things quickly grew testy when several residents demanded someone speak to the crowd about concerns many had about the necessity of connecting Naperville-Plainfield Road with Boughton Road in Bolingbrook.

Will County Democrats on Monday afternoon named Larry Walsh Jr. to replace state Rep. Jack McGuire, D-Joliet, in the 86th House seat.

McGuire resigned April 6 after running unopposed in the March 20 primary.

Walsh, the son of Will County Executive Larry Walsh and a Jackson Township trustee, will complete McGuire’s term and take his place on the ballot.

About two months after it opened, Frankfort Township’s newest senior apartment complex is 100 percent occupied.

Some of the tenants of the Lighthouse Pointe complex have familiar names. Records show that some township employees or their families have benefited from the project as tenants or as real estate agents, starting with the acquisition of the property last year.

None is accused of wrongdoing, and officials say other brokers were solicited and the final tenants were found only after waiting lists were gone through.

Mayor Tom Giarrante has been selected as the recipient of the 2012 Leonardo da Vinci Award of Excellence presented by the Order Sons of Italy in America, Grand Lodge of Illinois and Wisconsin.

The award recognizes Italian-Americans with outstanding records in their professions and communities.

“I am honored and humbled to be selected as this year’s recipient,” Giarrante said.