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Late morning shorts
Wednesday, Mar 29, 2006 - Posted by Rich Miller · Charlie Johnston: Whole New Ballgame in 17th · Peoples Energy customers to get $100 credit after May 1. Bad debt erased. · IlliniPundit looks at the Meeks candidacy. More here, here, here, here, here and here. · The Champaign County Clerk talks about voter privacy. · Teri O’Brien: “Governor, aren’t you admitting that lowering taxes stimulates job creation? If so, why are democrats incessantly demanding tax increases?” · Anti-Contraception group blasts guv. · “Burke’s transparent power play” · Tackling the pension debt. Add your own updates below.
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- NW burbs - Wednesday, Mar 29, 06 @ 12:28 pm:
Anti-Contraception group blasts guv.
Though I disagree, I can understand being against abortion and there are several rational people on both sides of the aisle who make legitimate arguments in that regard.
But this is really just a slippery slope to outlawing The Pill and after that… bye-bye rubbers.
When the US Constitution begin to be replaced by the radical right-wing version of the Bible? (Is that the RRWV Bible?)
When will conservatives admit this is really all about forcing people to keep their pants zipped instead of all those disgusting out-of-context pictures they keep forcing people to look at?
- Cassandra - Wednesday, Mar 29, 06 @ 4:05 pm:
Retirees across the state were pretty much silent on the pension raid, perhaps because they didn’t believe it would ever affect them personally. Or maybe they just liked Blago.
Now, according to the RSEA, which follows pension and other issues pertinent to state
retirees “there is a proposal to set aside a minimum of 5% of pension fund assets to promote the economy of Illinois through economic opportunity investments.”
No info on which party had this delightful idea or what those “investments” might be, but perhaps it is time for the pensioners to get nervous. After all, given the state of the Illinois economy, and of various pension funds,
this scheme sounds pretty risky.