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Friday, Nov 17, 2006 - Posted by Rich Miller * FYI: I’ll be on WBEZ’s Eight Forty-Eight program at about 9:05 this morning. * Big silence greets $1 wage-hike vote - Chamber chief: State commerce leader finds businesses curiously calm in face of change * Company says state owes $20M on canceled prison build * State lowering thermostats * Southern Illinoisan: Choosing a name symbolic to the region, the Southern Illinois Baseball Group [financed partly by the state] announced Thursday evening before a group of about 300 rowdy baseball fans that “Miners” was the route to go - Southern Illinois Miners to be specific. * Editorial: Election’s over; now let’s fix funding crisis * Daley wants to enlist science, math teachers - Would tie free ride to college to public school commitment * First round of layoffs hits DuPage County hard * Judge tosses Craigslist discrimination suit * Schools face obstacle to building plan * State DCFS chief Samuels, who sparred with gov, quits
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- Tessa - Friday, Nov 17, 06 @ 8:32 am:
Oooh, I feel another fight about the temps where I work at. We never resolved it last year and it was cold, cold, cold, throughout the winter. This is gonna be fun. Management doesn’t seem to understand the concept of healthcare facility in the state.
- Cassandra - Friday, Nov 17, 06 @ 9:25 am:
Fusco suggests that Bryan Samuels’ departure is connected to a disagreement with the guv’s office over state computer contracts. A publicized dispute.Pretty minor but perhaps a warning to other department heads to keep differences of opinion to themselves.
Samuels says he is leaving because the agency is stable but he has no other job lined up. And the agency isn’t that stable. A headline in today’s Trib refers to what appears to be more bungling by DCFS’ child protection department agents, who
were investigating a Chicago suburban home when
a teen in the home murdered her newborn recently. A very tragic story, and preventable.
Samuels’ departure and replacement by an aide who is presumably more compliant with the guv’s office isn’t going to fix that.
- bored now - Friday, Nov 17, 06 @ 10:47 am:
rich’s conclusion this morning on 848 was priceless (paraphrased): the only think we know for sure is that he will make a lot of money!
- So Blue Democrat - Friday, Nov 17, 06 @ 12:48 pm:
Any Director of a state agency with any integrity would leave this administration. The amount of micro-managing the state agencies, and the stealing of funding from state agency budget for pet projects (that do not even tie to what was approved by the General Assembly) is unprecedented in state government. The Governor and his pals are like kids in a candy store. It is time for them to grow up.