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Morning Shorts
Thursday, May 3, 2007 - Posted by Paul Richardson * Governor received gifts from indicted woman * Illinois House endorses new way of choosing President * Opinion: State needs to direct funds toward mental health
* Lawmakers discuss violence prevention program funding * GOP goes after Durbin with ad * Kinzinger won’t challenge Tim Johnson for Congress * Bill would require libraries to block porn sites or lose funds * Court: Horse slaughter can resume in DeKalb * Sun-Times Editorial: Compromise needed to boost HIV testing * Economist: State will lose money from smoking ban
* Smoking ban not the worst possible * Editorial: Smoke-free, healthier state just a pen stroke away * Smoking ban raises worries * Editorial: Governor should sign statewide smoking ban * What Illinoians are saying about the smoking ban; more here * Editorial: Hard to be disappointed with smoking ban * Sun-Times Editorial: Underfunded transit nears end of the line * Tribune Editorial: Breaking the CTA doomsday cycle
* Ex-governor Thompson accused of lying about fees in Black case; Mark Brown’s take * Lynn Sweet: Obama’s Illinois workers trained to help campaign elsewhere * Over 400 city employees top $10,000 in overtime pay in 3 months
* Stroger’s controversial hiring picks OK’d * Tribune Editorial: Stroger’s friends and family * Chicago City Council members list outside income * Ald. Burke scores big with law firm, Wall Street
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- C$ - Thursday, May 3, 07 @ 8:48 am:
If they ban smoking and cigarette usage declines, what is the plan to make up for the loss in cigarette tax revenue? We need that money for education. Think about the kids. Smoke for the kids.
- Anon - Thursday, May 3, 07 @ 9:23 am:
These smoking arguments are ridiculous. Yes, you can smoke if you want to, that’s your right. But, smoking is unhealthy for others around you. With a ban bars will not go out of business. People will not stop going out at night, and the sky will not fall. New York, California, and others who have a sensible ban in place aren’t falling into economic depression. In fact, there are many of us who would go out more often to a club or bar if I did not have to smell like smoke when I got home. BTW - if cigarette sales decline, heaven forbid, then ostensibly there should be a corresponding reduction (eventually) in health care costs to the state. But I guess if you must smoke, then please, smoke for the kids.
- C$ - Thursday, May 3, 07 @ 9:36 am:
Great, I’m glad somebody agrees.
- Some Guy - Thursday, May 3, 07 @ 11:07 am:
GOP goes after Durbin with ad
Now if they could only go after him with a candidate, this might mean something.
- i d - Thursday, May 3, 07 @ 3:49 pm:
Since the horse slaughtering business in DeKalb is foreign owned, shut it down. Let them go back to Europe and eat their own animals. Also, we do not need someone in Dubai owning an aircraft business in the middle of the airport in Springfield. If Americans don’t own it, shut it down too.
- DOGGONE IT - Friday, May 4, 07 @ 6:10 am:
This ED BURKE is and may be he biggest crook in 35 years,makes you wonder if he has a free pass from the G,maybe a littie horse trading between US ATTY office and ED as a C.INFORMANT.