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Morning shorts
Thursday, Jan 24, 2008 - Posted by Kevin Fanning * Rockford mayor returns to council for first time since son’s death * AT&T Looking at Internet Filtering * Ryan appeals to Supreme Court
* Part-time job raises eyebrows in DuPage - Election chief works for vendor that does business with county * CTA Pitches Tax Hike -Are Aldermen Buying? * Chicago Public Schools plan draws anger
* The harsh truth
* 2 Illinois pols try to expand manufacturing tax break
* ‘He cared about people his whole life’ * Family, politicians honor Stroger * State centralizes job opportunities at new site * Blagojevich renews efforts to keep F-16s in Springfield * Plasma screens coming to ‘L’ car near you * About 4,000 seniors have pre-registered for free transit rides * Talking Transit * Transit vote may have killed construction funds * Tax refund anticipation loans are costly * Former assistant state’s attorney faces discipline * Rochelle voters to decide on home rule * Weisner campaign rakes in more than $150,000 * Lawyers back 4 in areaj udicial race * What the trades are saying about WTVP * Sun-Times sells Skyline, Booster and News-Star papers
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- Frustrated Republican - Thursday, Jan 24, 08 @ 9:07 am:
So, plasma screens were what downstate legislators voted to fund in this CTA “crisis”?
You have GOT to be kidding me!
- Bookworm - Thursday, Jan 24, 08 @ 9:40 am:
I was saddened to discover that Mayor Morrissey’s son had passed away. Our prayers and sympathies are with them.
Kudos to all the city officials and others in Rockford who kept things going and enabled the mayor and his wife to spend as much time as possible with their baby in his short life.
- plutocrat03 - Thursday, Jan 24, 08 @ 9:43 am:
Looks like business as usual for our friends at the CTA.
Keep in mind that while preaching the gospel of terrible service cuts, someone at the CTA as busy working on the deal to ‘improve communication”
Can anyone calculate the lifetime of these displays in daily use? Will that be in days, minutes or seconds? I’ll bet that just the vibrations alone will shorten the life of these devices.
- Siyotanka - Thursday, Jan 24, 08 @ 9:52 am:
Gee Gov…too little too late on the F-16 move. You should have done more earlier…
- cermak_rd - Thursday, Jan 24, 08 @ 10:21 am:
On the one hand, half-empty schools should not remain open if consolidation can occur. On the other hand, the cynic in me wonders how much of this re-org is about gaming the No Child Left Behind law. By closing schools, that gets schools off the list of schools not meeting AYP. Moving a gifted center into a school that is not doing well could very well turn that school around by engineering a flood of talented, well-motivated students.
The idea of the reconstitution du jour is that if you replace the teachers with better teachers, then the scores will improve. Yes, there are bad teachers, but mostly it’s a matter of non-motivated students who come from non-functional or dis-functional families that don’t stress school success.
- Anon - Thursday, Jan 24, 08 @ 6:10 pm:
Siyotanka, whatever his other faults, Blago has been aggressively litigating the F-16 matter in federal court (he claims that the law requires his approval of the move as head of the Illinois National Guard). The case has been up to the 7th Circuit at least twice already.