5 Comments - Truthful James - Tuesday, Jan 16, 07 @ 9:23 am: Sir – Youre attention is drawn to the Jan-Feb issue of the Atlantic, particularly the state of N.O. schools post Katrina, and most particulary to the table showing the failure of the public education system generally to more money and more education degrees.. In total, the State of Illinois, according to NEA figures, already ranks 12th in per capita student spending. A swap merely cements the relationship between the teachers unions and the legislators they continue to buy. Keep your money closer to home. - Anon - Tuesday, Jan 16, 07 @ 9:24 am: So some Republican porkers at the state employment trough got cut off when their four year terms came up. Several of them elderly and likely eligible for pensions and even Social Security. We;re supposed to see this as a tragedy??? The ever-gullible Illinois taxpayers appear to view state employment as a form of welfare employment for the unemployable. When Motorola lays of a gadzillion employees they shrug their shoulders. When banks start sending their back room work to India, they double shrub. But state employees, those poor helpless unemployables, we know they can’t get a job anywhere else so we the taxpayer have to support them. Even if we can’t pay our electric bills. The problem here is that these people even have four year terms. I thought Blago was getting rid of them. If they are as good as they say they are they should be able to work at will like the rest of the non-public working world. State government needs to cease be the State Employee and Political Hack Welfare Society, courtesy of the rest of us. - Anon. - Tuesday, Jan 16, 07 @ 12:17 pm: IDOT didn’t check on Killeen’s references because, the obvious, there was no resume. The resume more than likely came after-the-fact. I am curious how IDOT received a “stack” of resumes on a no-bid contract. Was this no-bid contract published in the newspaper want adds? How does IDOT solicit interested vendors on no-bid contracts? - Squideshi - Tuesday, Jan 16, 07 @ 5:45 pm: UI recommends noncompliance for affiliate boards on Open Meetings Act ———- How about a definition for what constitutes a meeting under the Not For Profit Corporation Act? Members have a right to inspect corporate records for any proper purpose, and corporations are required to keep minutes; however, there seems to be disagreement about the definition of a meeting–some think that it’s a quorum of members, gathered for the purpose of discussing or conducting corporate business, while others seem to think that it’s only a quorum of members, gathered for the purpose of conducting corporate business. - state worker #1 - Tuesday, Jan 16, 07 @ 6:53 pm: Transportation Secretary Tim Martin - when is he leaving? This is pathetic. There have been several, no, a WHOLE LOT of people filling out applications AFTER they start working at IDOT. Sorry, comments for this post are now closed.