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Blogger advice
Saturday, Apr 23, 2005 - Posted by Rich Miller If you’re a blogger and you tweak your template at all, make sure you keep a separate copy of your template text on your own computer. For reasons known only by the Internet gods, about half my code suddenly disappeared from my Blogger site yesterday. If I didn’t have the code stored on my Mac, I wouldn’t have been able to replace it. “Backup, backup, backup” is always good advice for anyone with a computer. Same goes for anyone with a website.
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Breaking news
Saturday, Apr 23, 2005 - Posted by Rich Miller From the Tribune: Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s emergency rule requiring Illinois pharmacists to fill prescriptions for contraceptives, including morning-after pills, remained in effect Friday after a Circuit Court judge blocked a pharmacist’s attempt to prevent it from being implemented.
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Guest Blogger - The governor is late again
Saturday, Apr 23, 2005 - Posted by Capitol Fax Blog Advertising Department Isn’t it interesting that the governor had to request an extension again this year, third year in a row, to get his taxes done? Sure they still had to pay an estimate of what they owe, but still. I read he and his family have just been too busy and that his wife and an accountant are supposed to be doing this. The man is becoming a better role model for kids by the day. I’m sorry I can’t be convinced that he and his wife are so busy that they couldn’t find time to meet with their accountant before April 15th to get everything in order. It seems odd that if the President of the United States can get his records in order and get his filed, a state governor should be able to do the same. Visualizing one’s schedule against the other and my bet is that the Prez is just a tad more occupied. This just bothers me. I’m sure the majority of Illinois residents found the time to get their taxes done, even if they worked overtime, or jogged every day, and I’m thinking there were some who had busier schedules than Rod.
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More congrats to my bro’
Friday, Apr 22, 2005 - Posted by Rich Miller One of my brother Devin’s newspapers, the Carterville Courier, just walked away with 7 total First place awards in this year’s Southern Illinois Editorial Association’s annual Better Newspaper Contest and won 11 awards total. First place — Best Local Sports Coverage, Photography, Best Local News Coverage, Editorial Page, Design, General Excellence, Best Photo Story, Max Bittle Second place — News Photo, Max Bittle / Sports Photo, Max Bittle / Third place — News Photo, Max Bittle / News Photo, Devin Miller / Best Photo Story, Max Bittle, Greg Padesky and Devin Miller Honorable mention — Best Education Story, Burke Wasson / Sports Photo, Roger Darrigrand / Sports Photo, Devin Miller And then there’s the rest of it from a press release: General Excellence awards go to 4 newspapers Way to go, kid.
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Friday White Sox blogging
Friday, Apr 22, 2005 - Posted by Rich Miller
Maybe, but I love the guy. And it’s always fun when he takes the field. A loud and sustained “gong” is played over the PA system as soon as his feet touch the playing surface. Last year, the Sox took the cheesy route by running footage of a Godzilla fight on the diamond screen. Whatever. It was still fun. He didn’t do too well on Tuesday night, when I was at the park. But Ozzie seems to have confidence in him. That’s good enough for me. Closer Shingo Takatsu repaid the faith shown in him by manager Ozzie Guillen by pitching a scoreless ninth inning as the Chicago White Sox edged the Detroit Tigers 4-3 on Thursday. Go Sox.
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White Sox ace closer Shingo Takatsu has been getting a little flak lately from some of the talk radio guys who think that he won’t be able to repeat his fantastic performance from last year. He’s been through the league twice now, and batters, they say, are figuring him out.|
Question for Springfield types
Friday, Apr 22, 2005 - Posted by Rich Miller What are your experiences with either Sprint PCS or Cingular Wireless in the Springfield area? I’m looking at switching carriers and the phone I want only uses those two services.
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Question of the day
Friday, Apr 22, 2005 - Posted by Rich Miller What specific financial or administrative reforms would you like to see the governor and his agencies implement to save money? Also, is the administration doing things that are wasteful, and what would you do to change this? And, please, let’s keep it practical. “Firing all state employees,” would be a juvenile suggestion that wouldn’t bring anything to the debate. Update: I knew I’d get some good comments on this one, but I’ve been amazed at the excellence of the suggestions. Keep them coming.
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Sun-Times catches up
Friday, Apr 22, 2005 - Posted by Rich Miller I wrote in the Capitol Fax last week (I think it was last week, may have been two weeks ago) that Mayor Daley’s comment about abandoning his pursuit of a Chicago casino was way overplayed by the Chicago media. His lobbyists, I reported, are still working on it and will also oppose any casino expansion that doesn’t include a site for Chicago. Buried way down at the end of a Sun-Times article today about CTA funding was this little nugget: Earlier this month, Daley said he couldn’t care less whether Gov. Blagojevich approves a land-based, government-owned casino in downtown Chicago. The mayor said he has only two funding priorities for the spring session: CTA and schools.
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Rockford mayor offered job…
Friday, Apr 22, 2005 - Posted by Rich Miller But he’s not talking about it. Outgoing Mayor Doug Scott is contemplating a job offer from his friend Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Like I said before, I hope they don’t stick him in some agency job where his advice is ignored forever and is only contacted when the budget office wants more money (which is always).
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Another new blog
Friday, Apr 22, 2005 - Posted by Rich Miller Jack Darin at the Sierra Club has a brand new blog, just in time for Earth Day. Darin was on Chicago Tonight last night and did a good job. Good luck, Jack.
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State Fair lineup
Thursday, Apr 21, 2005 - Posted by Rich Miller A decidedly mixed bag, to say the least. Just announced via press release. # Friday, August 12th The Illinois State Fair kicks off with 2005 County Music Association Award winners Rascal Flatts taking the stage. […] Update: I put this in comments, but it’s worth repeating here: [The comments on this post] prove what my good friend Keith always says.
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Weird
Thursday, Apr 21, 2005 - Posted by Rich Miller I hadn’t heard this one before. (Via The So-Called Austin Mayor) They’ve got a house in rural Texas and a nice home-office setup on Pennsylvania Avenue. But for tax purposes, President Bush and his wife, Laura, claim a Chicago post office box as their “home address.” So, does this mean that the president is supposed to pay Illinois state taxes?
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Question of the day
Thursday, Apr 21, 2005 - Posted by Rich Miller Who is Peter O’Malley? Archpundit asked the same question of his readers after spotting some comments posted over here about O’Malley’s likely primary bid against Christine Cegelis. Cegelis, of course, is the Democrat who lost to Henry Hyde last time around and is planning another run. I don’t know much about O’Malley, but he comes highly recommended by a good friend of mine. Also, does he have a chance in the primary?
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New blog
Thursday, Apr 21, 2005 - Posted by Rich Miller Tim Johnson Watch. Doesn’t appear to be a very flattering look at the incumbent congressman. (Hat tip to Illini Pundit.)
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Get it out yourself, Part II
Thursday, Apr 21, 2005 - Posted by Rich Miller It looks like the Tribune agrees with my assessment yesterday that the governor’s office was trying to get out in front of a negative story by telling a reporter that it was conducting an internal investigation. Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s showcase efficiency initiative aimed at saving the state tens of millions of dollars may become a major embarrassment with the anticipated release of what sources said Wednesday will be a scathing independent audit that raises questions about waste and mismanagement.
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Education stuff
Thursday, Apr 21, 2005 - Posted by Rich Miller The Daily Illini’s editorial board doesn’t think much of the governor’s plan to toughen high school graduation requirements. If anything, this bill is three decades late. Thirty years ago, the cost of higher education was not as prohibitive as it is now. Thirty years ago, these requirements would have been enough to just graduate high school, not go to college and yet still earn a substantial salary. Archpundit has more, but focuses on the funding split.
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As promised
Thursday, Apr 21, 2005 - Posted by Rich Miller Here’s the link to DJWriter’s story about a near run-in between his dog and the governor’s security detail that I wrote about in today’s Capitol Fax. (Hat tip to Eric Zorn.) UPDATE: A tip in the comment section led me to this fun little guv sighting: So I’m running by the Governor’s house this morning, and a secret service guy, who was not very secretive with his jacket off, displaying his “piece†strapped to his belt, but was in service, tried to figure out how to collapse the Governor’s golf bag cart in order to place it in the official golf bag cart transporter — in the form of a black Ford sedan. Heh.
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