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Morning Shorts
Friday, Jul 20, 2007 - Posted by Paul Richardson * Ex-state corrections official indicted on fraud charges * Director, two lobbyists indicted * Ex-prisons’ chief, lobbyists indicted * Feds double charges in Vrdolyak fraud case * Four more charges added against Vrdolyak * Vrdolyak faces new charges in real estate deal * Feds: Former Melrose Park chief a bad guy * Ex-cop chief charged in racketeering charges * Firm accused of minority front in schools’ landscaping pact * Landscaping exec accused of fraud * Sun-Times Editorial: Sink BP’s waste plan
* Tribune Editorial: Messing with Lake Michigan * Court says horse slaughterhouse can reopen * Disclosure requirements for governors * Power plant plan merits legislative OK * OTB parlor is approved by Illinois Racing Board * Clout Street: HDO’s man in Congress? * Durbin raising big money despite lack of challenger * Inmate gets 43 years for threatening letters to governor, Madigan, judge * Daley tabs woman from L.A. to weed out the bad cops * Friday Beer Blogging: Woody edition
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- Note to all state workers... - Friday, Jul 20, 07 @ 8:01 am:
Blessed the man who follows not
the counsel of the wicked
Nor walks in the way of sinners,
nor sits in the company of the insolent,
But delights in the law of the LORD
and meditates on his law day and night.
- Pay to Play Flourishing in Illinois - Friday, Jul 20, 07 @ 8:14 am:
Illinois gets a grade of “F” and ranks 37th among states when it comes to personal disclosure requirements for governors.
Guess Governor (Ethics) Blagojevich lied to us.
- Captain America - Friday, Jul 20, 07 @ 8:28 am:
These latest series of indictments prove anew that Illinois has an epeidemic of bipartisan corruption: upstate, downstate,Democrats, Republicans,Chicago, and the suburbs too.
Everything seems to be for sale in the Land of Lincoln.
But Senator jones doesn’t think we need “pay-to play” or ethics legislation. He’s got three bills with widespread bipartican support bottled up in the Seante Rules Committee. It’s time for a change in the Senate Democratic leadership in the Illinois Senate.
Senator Jones: It’s reformism, not racism!
- Just wondering - Friday, Jul 20, 07 @ 8:32 am:
Doesn’t Monahan Landscape Co. tend Blagojevich and Daley’s lawns?
- MeThinks - Friday, Jul 20, 07 @ 8:57 am:
Sneed with a scoop on a potential budget deal next week, FYI.
- Captain America - Friday, Jul 20, 07 @ 9:05 am:
AFter our spirited exhcange on the subject of BP’s plant to poison Lake Michigan yesterday, I loved the morning editorials.
The pro-business Tribune noted the BP’s pollution permit “followed the letter of the law” but was “stunningly boneheaded.”
The editorail confimred the adverse economic impact of BP’s pollution plan: “As goes Lake Michigan, so goes Chicago, Milwaukee, and much of the Upper Midwest.”
In effect, the Tribune pointed out BP’s corporate hypocrisy when its pollution plans/actions are compared with its advertising campaign promoting an image of “environmental sensitivity.” (my words and conclusions, not the Tribune’s.)
The Sun-Time emphatically declared “zero tolerance for the release of any additional pollution into our precious lake water.”
- Truthful James - Friday, Jul 20, 07 @ 9:06 am:
At the end of the day, it would appear that Monahan collects anything that is green and growing and does not go to a landfill.
- Ken in Aurora - Friday, Jul 20, 07 @ 9:57 am:
Sorry to see Patricia Reid Lindner is planning on hanging up her House spurs at the end of this term. She’s been a great rep…
- cermak_rd - Friday, Jul 20, 07 @ 10:59 am:
Wouldn’t providing a rebate on IL made cars be against the spirit of the idea that the US is one common market?
Good luck to Ms. Rosenzweig in her new gig as overseer of OPS.