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Morning Shorts
Tuesday, Sep 15, 2009 - Posted by Mike Murray * University of Illinois faculty and student leaders on Monday urged replacing top administrators * U of Illinois Faculty Calls for Officials’ Ouster * SIU implements hiring freeze in Carbondale * State police crime lab backlog easing * Bipartisan reform effort hits Cook County Board * New Shakman report criticizes county * Report: Questionable Hiring Continues in Cook County Government * City inspector in hot water, on firing line * Out-of-sync pay boxes could cost parkers * EPA digs for further proof of contamination source in Crestwood * Low natural gas prices, warmer winter will cut your heating bill * CWLP employees get 60-day suspensions for noose incidents * Brian Urlacher Out For Season * Bears opening disaster could hurt local stations * Quinn declares 58 Ill. counties disaster areas * Probation officers needed to link offenders, services * Restore MAP grants * Can state find a fix for pension crisis?
* Solving Illinois’ public pension mess Six key options to address growing financial crisis * Cut huge pensions that bleed taxpayers
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- wordslinger - Tuesday, Sep 15, 09 @ 9:12 am:
“The difficulty is that while some county policy makers and their agents are busy drafting and adopting and implementing appropriate policies, others are busy evading and frustrating and defying the policies.”
Given what happened to Sorich and Sanchez, isn’t a little dangerous for some in the county to be “evading and frustrating and defying the policies” regarding Shakman?
- The Prophet - Tuesday, Sep 15, 09 @ 9:16 am:
You can’t expect Pat “Captain Courageous” Quinn to be willing to do something that takes courage and that would benefit the people of Illinois in an election year, do you? Pat “The Timid” has already showed his yellow stripe by saying that he is going to wait until after the November elections before pushing for the 50% state income tax increase so it won’t hurt his and his Democrat Party elected officials chances of geting re-elected. Now, his candid admission of being more concerned about getting re-elected rather than the fiscal health of our state government tells me “oddles” of who Pat Quinn really is: An honest guy who places his political career above the interests of the citizens of Illinois. I love his honesty and candor but he won’t get my vote. An honest and lovable “Dufas” who was an “accidental governor” and who just might “accidentally” get re-elected if Illinois voters fail to do their homework by learning about the candidates.
- Fire Ron Guenther - Tuesday, Sep 15, 09 @ 9:18 am:
The sooner White & Herman leave the U of I, the better.
- Scooby - Tuesday, Sep 15, 09 @ 9:24 am:
The article “Six key options to address growing financial crisis” doesn’t actually list six options. Weird.
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Sep 15, 09 @ 10:01 am:
Instead of autmatic 3%, why not adjust to inflation as does Soc. Sec., never to exceed 3%?
- EBCDIC - Tuesday, Sep 15, 09 @ 10:58 am:
Quinn will not do anything that would affect the elected officals pension system. It would cut his $150,000 + retirement. Why to the IGA and Judges need to earn 5% a year in pension. The IGA members only work 120 days a year. Why do they have a 50% pension increase a year after retirement just because the worked 20 years. Why do they earn a max of 85% of their pay for 20 years when the state employee earns 1.67% and must work 44 years 10 months to get a full pension of 75%. The average state employee has a monthly pension of $1,800 compared to the $12,000 + a month that the IGA and Judges receive. We need to remember this when the elections come. Perhaps by getting new officals we can get the laws changed. All Quinn wants to do is to reform the lowest pensions(political distraction from the real problem) and that is the front line state employees. I can’t believe the unions are endorsing him.
- Say WHAT? - Tuesday, Sep 15, 09 @ 1:14 pm:
I have been wondering why the officials at the U of I are taking all the heat? Why isn’t any of the heat on the elected officials that pushed candidates that were not qualified according to U of I standards?