Morning Shorts
Monday, Aug 11, 2008 - Posted by Kevin Fanning
* Maureen Murphy, the Illinois Republican Party State Central Committee Member for Congressional District 1 and the Worth Township GOP Chairman, has passed away
* Silencing critics and shutting out the press: It’s just another day in Illinois
* Illinois Cities Say They Don’t Need State Trooper Help
* Illinois’ freedom trail: Underground Railroad sites are portal to history
That history remains threatened by the state’s budget crisis as Gov. Rod Blagojevich recently vetoed $2.7 million from the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency’s fiscal year 2009 budget.
* Hynes: Governor must sign ethics bill
“We must end pay-to-play politics,” Hynes said while in Morris Wednesday. “It was dramatized in the (George) Ryan trial. A contractor can receive a $5 million contract and the next day write a $100,000 (campaign) check to a state office holder.
* City Hall orders 15 percent budget cuts to fill budget hole
* Chicago Official Under Investigation
* GateHouse posts 2Q loss; suspends dividend payments
* Media: JS reports on GateHouse quarterly statements, CEO predicts recovery
* Adding Up The Newspaper Cutbacks
* No media cover-up
The truly interesting thing about the John Edwards love child scandal is not that it happened — men are human beings, alas — but how, having been broken by the National Enquirer, the story percolated for weeks in the online world before exploding Friday into what is called with increasing derision “the mainstream media.”
* The grass is greener — in the ‘burbs
Cook County leads the nation as the county with the highest number of whites — meaning those not Hispanic, black, Asian, American Indian or Native Hawaiian — moving out, according to recently released U.S. Census figures.
* U.S. may not be in recession, but 170 metro areas could be
* Yorkville petition tossed by pollution agency
* Belief in the ballot
* Policy center named for Illinois statesman hosts first event
- Ghost - Monday, Aug 11, 08 @ 9:17 am:
Its nice to see a few media outlets conintuing to run stories about the ethics bill just sitting on the Gov desk (waiting to be improved). It would be nice to see a full court press with the majority of news sources running ongoing coverage of the Gov lack of action on the Ethics legislation.
On a side note, the SJ-R had a story this weekend about Quinn calling for the Senate to vote donw their pay raises. it would be very nice to see this getting big press. The best thing for Jones is for their to be minimial coverage of this in the few days leading up to its effective date. If the main stream media would rund stories about the cost of the pay raise set side by side with cuts in critical programs heavy publicity might put enough pressure on Jones to call this for a vote. But like so many ciritical stories in Illinois, it gets only sporadic buried coverage from the press which wonders why it is losing readership.
- The Friendly Village - Monday, Aug 11, 08 @ 6:59 pm:
My sympathies and condolences to the family of The Honorable Maureen Murphy.