Morning Shorts
Thursday, Jun 19, 2008 - Posted by Kevin Fanning
* Bottled water tax take falls far short
* Clout on the payroll
* Three strikes against lawyers, just one out
But until then, Cari remains licensed to practice law in Illinois. Cari — a former top Democratic Party fund-raiser — is likely to be disbarred by the Illinois Supreme Court, but not until he’s sent to prison.
* Pigs Don’t Vote
* City to hold Olympic extravaganza
“The important thing for us is that it’s both a fund-raiser and a celebration — and there are 7,000 free seats available. We want the broadest number of Chicagoans possible to come out and celebrate and participate in the Olympic bid,” Sandusky said.
* OLYMPICS 2016 TRASH TOUR KICKS OFF ON THURSDAY, JUNE 19TH
* New county health CEO might not be picked for year
* Stroger Welcomes New County Health Bureau Board
* A boost to the effort to secede from Cook County?
* Meeting Illinois’ energy needs
* Wind tower plant may locate locally
A company that builds towers for wind turbines is shopping for a place to locate about 150 jobs and a multimillion-dollar facility, and it has its eye on Peoria and Tazewell counties.
* Audit raps healthcare agency for slow, poor bookkeeping
* New audit also critical of Blagojevich health department
* Blagojevich hopes moving jobs will help state economically
- Ghost - Thursday, Jun 19, 08 @ 8:40 am:
The olympic article link has gone dead. I hope tat is not a sign for our olympic chances.
- The Doc - Thursday, Jun 19, 08 @ 8:51 am:
Ghost, the Olympic dream of Chicago needs to die. It’s gonna cost us an arm, a leg, and a torso as well. Think about the the actors in this play for a moment - the IOC, Daley, Blagojevich. This is a taxpayers’ worst nightmare.
- fedup dem - Thursday, Jun 19, 08 @ 8:52 am:
Don’t worry about Chicago’s Olympic chances. After all, a good hunk of the IOC members are petty tyrants themselves, and thus have a certain bonding with one of their own kind, like Mayor Daley. (Most of the rest are drooling over the prospect of pigging out on Chicago’s food, a probable reaction to the years of forced dietary habits while they were actual athletic competitors.)
- Ghost - Thursday, Jun 19, 08 @ 8:55 am:
I like the theme though…. “Chicago Believes …” makes me think of Miracle on 42nd street and NY city… oh wait, this is chicago
- Anonymous - Thursday, Jun 19, 08 @ 9:26 am:
Fed-up Dem, if the IOC didn’t mind giving the Olympics to China (a definite medal contender in official corruption and one-party control) they should have no problem with Chicago.
- Bluefish - Thursday, Jun 19, 08 @ 9:38 am:
What a shocker - the Chicago bottled water tax is coming up far short of reveneue estimates. Let’s see. A Chicago resident who wants to avoid this silly tax now goes out to the burbs to buy his bottled water by the case from their Costco. While there, the same Chicago resident now also buys a carload of other stuff that he normally would have bought in the city, worsening the city’s tax revenue loss. Of course, no one saw this coming (except for the neighboring suburbs that were grinning when the tax passed knowing that it would be a sales tax windfall for them).
- Squideshi - Thursday, Jun 19, 08 @ 11:31 am:
Tom Wolf wrote, “In reality, those stopping the new Will County plant are offering few viable solutions for meeting our state’s growing energy needs.”
Wind, solar, hydro, geothermal, tidal, plasma arc gasification, etc. The problem that most people had with the THIRD coal-fired power plant in Will County, which would be one of the biggest, was that Indeck simply refused to use best available technology, as they are required to by law. If they’re not willing to even explore the possibility of integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) then the people of Will County have no duty to allow them to import pollution so that they can export energy out of the state for a profit.