Morning Shorts
Monday, Jun 2, 2008 - Posted by Kevin Fanning * Straight Party Voting Dead for This Year * Timely reactions are a real gas
* If Rush Retires, Many Are Ready * Jim Thompson: CS-T editorial makes case for executive clemency for Ryan
* One plan to fix state’s debt: Get workers to give back
* State funding for UI included in shaky budget * Monroe County eyes referendum on tax to pay for levee upgrades * State’s stance on silence makes no sense * State says mental heath check system ready to go * Sen. Jacobs should check his shoe
* Mike Tryon Tries to Boost Name Identification * Harmon, Froehlich Bill Provides DuPage Candidates With Equal Ballot Access * New law may leave some seeing their glass half empty * Bernard Schoenburg: Ex-state rep fined in ethics panel’s 1st completed case * We’re mired in standoffs * Chicago tries to ease traffic mess around train stations * He zones. She sells. And it’s legal. * Cook County Board President Todd Stroger names new chief of staff * Feds raid union boss’ farm * Possible Fermilab cuts could have major impact * City Desk: Rep. Peter Roskam
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- Princeville - Monday, Jun 2, 08 @ 8:34 am:
hmmm, I didn’t see anything in those nice little charts ‘in the letter’ that explained why pension cost is so high. It’s one thing to ’show the cost’, but now where is the ‘why’ the state owes such high amounts. Raid the funds and borrow against them, then blame the worker for the problem?
- Vote Quimby! - Monday, Jun 2, 08 @ 8:47 am:
The Monroe County levee issue is a direct result of the mass transit bailout last year. Pandora’s Box is now open: Allowing ‘temporary’ sales tax hikes to pay for ongoing issues will soon become as common as TIFs are now. At least Monroe County is asking voters their opinion; St. Clair and Madison are ready to declare the ‘emergency’ and start the taxing.
- Vote Quimby! - Monday, Jun 2, 08 @ 8:47 am:
I’m sure it’s just coincidence…but Monroe is Republican leaning while Madison/St. Clair are notoriously Democratic.
- Plutocrat03 - Monday, Jun 2, 08 @ 9:30 am:
If George Ryan’s medical issues are related strictly to diabetes, I would like to point out that there are millions of people afflicted with this disease who are not in imminent danger of death. This is simply a case of an advocate making he strongest case possible to allow a client to evade the consequences of his actions. Nice try Mr. Thompson
Perhaps Jim Thompson could stand in for George Ryan to finish out his term of incarceration. That would be a fair trade.
At least he would do less damage to the State of Illinois behind bars. (e.g. Sports Authority still trying to acquire Wrigley Field)
- Just a Citizen - Monday, Jun 2, 08 @ 11:24 am:
Re: Jacobs Should Check His Shoe Story–Barb Ickes really hit the nail on the head when she said that Jacobs “borrows a page from his father’s political playbook and shoots from the hip, he often hits his own foot. He comes off as arrogant and condescending, and the difference between father and son never has been as evident as it has during the past month.”
I applaud her honesty and her bravery for telling it like it is. Mr Jacobs is a an embarrasment to all of his constituents and to the General Assembly.
- Barb - Monday, Jun 2, 08 @ 2:02 pm:
Senator Jacobs and his Moline office were a big help to me a while back. I am a constituent.
If you knew Ms. Ickes, you would know what a true ambarrassment is.
- NoGiftsPlease - Monday, Jun 2, 08 @ 6:15 pm:
How do the authors determine which obligations are “unfunded” vs. which ones are “funded?” That seems to be a question of priorities — you could as well say the obligations are funded and the daily operations are unfunded or any combination.