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Morning Shorts
Tuesday, Jun 17, 2008 - Posted by Kevin Fanning * Architect, ex-chief of city parks * Lawyer for Chicago in O’Hare expansion project has ties to DuPage County chief * U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear DCFS case * Still need 200 volunteers for insurance registration * Keeping children healthy takes insurance — and you * Prisoner review board under fire
* Tow industry says anti-pirating law hurts good guys
* 2 state lawmakers rally to save Pontiac prison * Illinois senators hope to keep prisons open * Jo Daviess mega-farm plan still faces court battle * We can’t afford to ignore foreclosure crisis * If you lose it, you lose * Media: It’s really downer to own a printing press right now * Tribune plans safety net for stations * Pollution and Chicago waterways * Second Global Greens Conference
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- Skeeter - Tuesday, Jun 17, 08 @ 9:11 am:
What a brutal obit of Walter Netsch. Completely lacking in class. That sort of retrospective should have been done in a year, instead of right after his loss.
Condolences go out to his family. We are sorry for your loss.
- Cassandra - Tuesday, Jun 17, 08 @ 10:01 am:
One wonders why the Family Defense Center, which purports to represent families involved, perhaps wrongly, with Illinois’ state-run child welfare system, thought the Supreme Court would become involved in what is essentially a rather mild child welfare intervention…the development of a plan to protect the allegedly mistreated child while an investigation takes place, a plan which must be approved by the child’s caretaker, as well as by the agency.
The Center now claims that they will take the issue to the legislature. Good luck. A politician is going to vote that a child should not be protected while an investigation into his or her possible maltreatment is ongoing. I don’t think so.
Crusades like this one by supposed family advocates tend to divert attention from the real problems in Illinois’ child welfare system. In Illinois African American children are placed into foster care at a rate almost four times their representation in the population. It’s a huge scandal and there is no excuse for it. And yet…a lot of nonprofit child welfare agencies, state bureaucrats, foster parents and “contractors” live off this situation: DCFS has a $1.5 billion dollar budget. Most of it doesn’t go to the kids. And DCFS’ upper echelons are a pork farm for Blago/Emil supporters, that is, those who couldn’t make it into fancier state positions. Like DHS, DCFS bumbles along providing a nice living for
those who made the right political choices for the current Blagojevich era.
The Family Defense Center may have their heart in the right place, but that’s not good enough in the 21st century. They need to find a real issue and pursue it with a level of competence they haven’t shown so far.
- Captain America - Tuesday, Jun 17, 08 @ 12:36 pm:
Condolences to Dawn on her husband’s death. He’s been in poor health for many years.
- Inland Steel Building Fan - Tuesday, Jun 17, 08 @ 8:34 pm:
Condolences to Mme. Comptroller Netsch and her family.
Skeeter is correct…there is a time, place and appropriate context for such other discussions.